HomeFeatures

Features

Some of The Best Watercraft Races In The World

For true boating and watercraft enthusiasts, from sailors to jet skiers, nothing beats a good competition. Sure, there’s something relaxing about a leisurely day...

From Ibiza; a Jet Ski Beacon in the Middle of the Mediterranean

The mysterious island of Ibiza is located in the western Mediterranean, right in the center of the oldest sea routes, linking southern Europe with...

Bring Back The Cheap Skis: The Real Costs of PWC Adjusted For Inflation

It's a common complaint echoing from the bottomless pit of social media trolls. They cry, "Bring back the cheap skis" whenever the subject of...

Vicious Rumors & Vile Gossip: Something Turbo This Way Comes

It is a sobering reality when one realizes that the innovation and technology that appears on the latest personal watercraft has often lived a...

Kevin Shaw: Preparing For Planned Obsolescence

Right about now, I'm reeeally hating my computer. It's a 5-year-old Apple MacBook Pro with the 15-inch screen. I bought a few years ago...

Vicious Rumors & Vile Gossip: What Does The Future Hold For Kawasaki JetSkis?

The text message came in at dinnertime, just about a month ago. I normally try to keep my phone off – or at least...

Skis of Significance: The 10 Most Important PWC of All Time

It's difficult to properly project the future, but as one might find, looking back and tracing the trajectory that lead us to where we...

Vicious Rumors & Vile Gossip: Did Tesla Just Announce an Electric PWC?

The short answer is no. Not just no, but ugh, nooo. Being an international publication, we've had to wise up on some various holidays and...

The Watercraft Journal’s 2018 Top 10 Christmas Gifts For Jet Skiers

What is happening these days? Folks are putting up Christmas decorations even before Thanksgiving comes around. We can maybe be OK with putting up...

Seven Deadly Questions: Krash Industries’ Mike Hodges

Recently, The Watercraft Journal had a chance to meet up with Mike Hodges, the National Sales Manager for Krash Industries, to discuss their soon-to-be-official...

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...