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NASA Reaches Out To Personal Watercraft Supplier Hydro-Turf For Special ...

Brice Leckrone

April 14, 2021

What happens when all existing industry materials fail to meet the standards of NASA for a special command module project? They simply turn to the watercraft industry for solutions! During a recent project involving the ...

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The Watercraft Journal By The Numbers: Record Growth for 2020

Kevin Shaw

January 5, 2021

First launched on New Year’s Day in 2013 under the name Watercraft Performance – and later rebranded The Watercraft Journal in Fall of that year – this publication has swelled to become the single-most frequented ...

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The Watercraft Journal’s 2020 Top 10 Christmas Gifts For Jet ...

Kevin Shaw

December 8, 2020

Normally, we here at The Watercraft Journal are ardently opposed to early Christmas decorating; but considering the $#%&-show that 2020 has added up to be, if spreading a little holiday cheer is what is going ...

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Interviews

Volunteer SAR with Captain Ron Hagerman and his Team

Ocean Priselac

September 18, 2020

Recently, we received an email from Captain Ron Hagerman who commands a search and rescue team based in southwestern Florida. He contacted us soon after he returned from leading his team on a search and ...

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Gallery: Introducing The 2021 Sea-Doo Lineup

Kevin Shaw

September 14, 2020

[Editor’s note: Yes, this article was supposed to have gone live on Friday, September 11, 2020. Unfortunately, the hard drive in our MacBook Pro died, and with it any chance of us completing this reveal ...

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Seven Deadly Questions with Fizzle Factory’s James Blanch

Kevin Shaw

August 14, 2020

It was the shot heard around the world; the fastest personal watercraft record had been broken. Not just broken, but wholly smashed and ground into fine dust. A heavily tuned, but surprisingly stock (at least ...

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Gallery: Introducing The 2021 Yamaha WaveRunner Lineup (Video)

Kevin Shaw

August 12, 2020

Let’s just get right to it: Personal watercraft sales are the highest they’ve been since 2007. Just last year, the total number of new vehicle sales excelled 87,000 units. (That’s literally double the total sales ...

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Gallery: Kawasaki Europe Reveals 2021 JetSki Lineup Early

Kevin Shaw

August 4, 2020

With less than two weeks away from the 2021 Yamaha WaveRunners official reveal, it would appear that Kawasaki’s European division jumped the starter’s pistol yet again, and rolled out the entirety of the international lineup ...

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Gallery: Taiga Orca Reveals Trio of 2021 Electric PWC & ...

Kevin Shaw

July 17, 2020

It was back in September of last year when The Watercraft Journal revealed to the world the first-ever production electric PWC. Christened the Orca, Taiga Motors‘ first foray into personal watercraft definitely made a splash ...

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Exclusive: Sea-Doo to Launch First Sportsman PWC, 2021 Moose Pro ...

Kevin Shaw

April 1, 2020

It was possibly one of the bravest moves made by a major OE manufacturer in the PWC industry in decades: build a model for the specific use of fishing. Yet, that was what Sea-Doo did ...

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