HomeFeatures

Features

Join The Club: WNY PWC Owners

"It all began with as a way to connect local riders focused on maximizing our short seasons here in a region known only for...

Kevin Shaw: The Road To Water

It was time for a change. I loved my job, but I also wanted more than just to be an Associate Editor, and it...

House of Power: SBT Develops Its Own Brand of 4-Stroke Engines

With the thousands of personal watercraft in current use as rental units around the world – many of which being (in may cases) over...

Join The Club: Club Motomarine Montreal

"My name is Julien Bedard and I am the administrator and co-founder of the Club Motomarine Montreal since its creation in 2014. The club...

The Watercraft Journal By The Numbers: May 2017

This might not be the right venue to discuss it, but it's been a relevant point for a while: professional racing no longer dictates...

Seven Deadly Questions With Tanner Thomas

The Watercraft Journal: For those of you, who do not know who Tanner Thomas is, tell the audience about yourself. Tanner Thomas: Friends call me...

Kevin Shaw: Falling In Love With A Girl Named Belassi

I still cringe when people casually throw around the term "abusive relationship"; it always feels like somebody should be cowering in the corner with...

The Watercraft Journal By The Numbers: April 2017

Oh yikes! What were we thinking? Yeah, you're reading this latest update of "By The Numbers" a day later than it's supposed to be....

Krash Industries Introduces The First $12K Turn-Key Freeride Ski (Video)

It wasn't but two weeks ago that The Watercraft Journal broke the news on Krash Industries' revolutionary new KV997 two-stroke powerplant. We thought there...

Leaked Images & Info Confirms 83MPH Belassi B3R Renamed “Burrasca” (Video)

We weren't terribly surprised when Belassi failed to meet the advertised "full media reveal" of its watercraft lineup yesterday, April 4th. Instead, the Dealer...

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...