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Interview: Farthing Weighs in On Wins, Family, Growing the Sport and More

Building a career in the world of watercross racing - or any extreme sport, for that matter - is not an easy task. Talent...

Yamaha Receives Patent for Built-In PWC Emergency Transmitter/Receiver Network

It would probably be fair to say that one of the last things Yamaha wants to see is a PWC rider panicking or being...

Seven Deadly Questions: 2024 Mark Hahn Memorial 300 Champion Michael Maniscalchi

For 20 years, the Mark Hahn Memorial 300 has brought some of the biggest names in PWC racing to Havasu. They come for the...

A Look Back At The 2024 Mark Hahn With Ross Wallach

With the 2024 Mark Hahn 300 Memorial Race in the books, and the 2025 Mark Hahn on the calendar, The Watercraft Journal caught up...

Audio: Pro Freestyler Anyzeski Talks Business, Bahamas & the New Rise Gravity Hull

Pro PWC Freestyler, entrepreneur, instructor, showman: Chris Anyzeski has all the bases covered, but even for him, the last few months have been...

A look at The Watercraft Journal’s Top Stories of 2023

Being the curious sort (and perhaps a slightly competitive sort), as I settle into my first full calendar year as Editor of The Watercraft...

The Watercraft Journal’s 2023 Top 10 Christmas Gifts For Jet Skiers

You'd think if we took this list more seriously that we'd have it to you months before Christmas, but alas here we are and...

Keeping Up With All Things PWC – Editor Update

With 2 months behind me as Editor of The Watercraft Journal, I am almost starting to feel like I’m getting into the swing of...

Reiterer Turns Up the Volume on the Race Safety Discussion

On October 16, Kevin Reiterer turned the volume up to 11 on the industry’s conversation about race safety.  In a public post on his Facebook...

Kevin Shaw: The Fourth And (Very Likely) Final Turning

I've been either somewhat adjacent or wholly embedded in the personal watercraft (PWC) industry for roughly 18 years (as I can measure) and I...

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...

Gallery: Introducing The 2017 Yamaha WaveRunner Lineup (Video)

Over time we've come to understand the certain ways that each manufacturer has in developing and introducing new product. While some play things a...