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Gallery: RIVA Racing’s 2018 Sea-Doo RXT-X 350

For the last few years, RIVA Racing has offered a specialty-built, Limited Edition high-horsepower, top-of-the-line performance racecraft (built in production runs of 25). This...

Gallery: Jet X Powersports Gets Go-Ahead To Build Ultimate GP1800R

For Andrew Hinchey, it was all about speed. The Kingston, Ontario, Canada native was in the market for a new runabout but his goals...

Gallery: 2018 Kawasaki JetSki Lineup

It's been a great year for the personal watercraft industry across the board. For the first time in years, the entire boating market was...

Seven Deadly Questions: Mark Gomez Talks JetPilot

The Watercraft Journal: What was your first exposure to the JetPilot brand? How did you know of the brand? Mark Gomez: I actually knew JetPilot...

Gallery: Introducing The 2018 Sea-Doo Lineup

Whoa. That's pretty much what we've got to say. Whoa. Leading up to the reveal of Sea-Doo's 2018 lineup there was a lot of...

Children of a Broken Home: How The UIM Wants To Push The IJSBA Out of Power

It's started with a text from racer and JetX team director Ryan Dalli one evening;"Hey bud. You going to 'Finals this year?" I replied...

The Watercraft Journal By The Numbers: August 2017

Whoa. Where did summer go? We're so turned around that we're literally five days late on publishing this month's episode of "By The Numbers."...

Seven Deady Questions: Samay Arnaiz, Houston’s PWC Rescue

Only now has Hurricane Charlie moved northeast after battering the Corpus Christi coastline before pushing into the greater Houston area. According to USA Today,...

Gallery: Introducing The 2018 Yamaha WaveRunner Lineup

It's incredible to believe, but not since the tipping point of 2008 has the boating and marine industry been so vibrant. During a private...

Join The Club: Jersey Shore Jetski Club

"My name is Rachael Russo, founder of Jersey Shore Jetski Club that started in June of 2016. We do weekly organized rides all over...

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...