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Gallery: 2016 AquaX Season in Review From a Photographer’s View

Now that my coverage of the 2016 AquaX race season coverage has come to an end, I thought that a review was in order....

Kevin Shaw: Being The Useful Idiot

Because I'm too lazy to look up an actually credible source, according to Wikipedia, the definition of a "useful idiot," and at least in...

Kevin Shaw: Lumberjacks, Sugar Water & Mexican Beer

It's not often that I get enough downtime to enjoy watching TV. Between two magazines and a family with three young children, there's very...

Kevin Shaw: To Act or Be Acted Upon Is Entirely Up To You

I'm convinced that there are two base philosophies that at their respective core, are the fundamental groundwork for every political, religious and personal theorem...

Kevin Shaw: No Publication Without Representation

"Can I ask you another question, Kevin?" Pavi asked in her quiet, polite way. Pavlina Machotkova - or Pavi who know her - has...

Kevin Shaw: Marketplace Environmentalism

In 2011, Kawasaki Motor Corp. USA quietly announced that the SX-R 800, the progeny of the original JS400 and subsequent genealogical line of two-stroke...

Kevin Shaw: No Room For Participation Trophies

I hate reality TV, but maybe not for the same reasons you do (because thankfully, its slowly on its way out of mode). The...

Kevin Shaw: 39,000 Feet, Somewhere Above Houston, Texas

That’s right, I’m in an airplane, flying to Ontario, California before hitching a ride in the unofficial Watercraft Journal motorhome to the quakysense IJSBA...

Kevin Shaw: Passion Projects, Racing and Going For Broke

I'll admit as the head of my own company that I've made a more than a few "decisions of passion" that have resulted in...

Kevin Shaw: The Courage to Continue

Although I earned my Eagle Scout Award at 16-years-old, I cannot recall much from the weeks of adolescent summers spent at Camp Tahquitz or...

The Incredible Hulk: Behind The Man Behind The Industry’s Most Successful Forum

My friendship with Jerry Gaddis all started with a friendly email warning me that I had really screwed up. In the final months before...

The Return of The King: Introducing The 2017 Kawasaki SX-R JetSki

Before going forward, let's take a minute and look back at how we got here, shall we? Just two years shy of the Kawasaki JetSki's...

Video: Kawasaki Teases All-New 4-Stroke 2017 SX-R Standup

OK, ladies and gentlemen. Here is the biggest news to hit the personal watercraft industry since, well...ever. Kawasaki, the company who first introduced the...

Debunking Myths & Better Understanding Sea-Doo’s Carbon Ring Seal

The haters. Oh boy, the haters. If the internet has taught us one thing, it's that people sure love to dump on stuff. For...

Gallery: Introducing The 2016 Yamaha WaveRunner Lineup

The 2016 model year marks three consecutive years where the Yamaha Motor Corporation has dramatically raised the bar. In 2014, Yamaha's Super High Output...

Yamaha Caught Testing JetFish WaveRunner Center Console PWC

For those of you already subscribing to The Watercraft Journal, you're already familiar with Yamaha's far-afield-of-normal open-bow, center console WaveRunner. What we originally deemed as...