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Seven Deadly Questions With Braden Bishop

The Watercraft Journal: Braden, thanks for taking time away from your classes to talk with us. Can you tell us how you first get...

Seven Deadly Questions With Brock Austin

Today's Seven Deadly Questions, we sit down with Brock Austin, one of the fastest up-and-comers in the Pro Ski circuit and began to delve...

Kevin Shaw: Printing Your Own Money

Last night, as I perused my seemingly endless news feed of Facebook posts, Instagram pics, Tweets and emails, I stopped and grinned at a...

Vicious Rumors And Vile Gossip: Could a Carbon Edition Spark Happen?

Pop quiz, hot shot: what's the number one complaint people have about the Sea-Doo Spark? Easy. Its plastic hull. Right? Right. It's not plastic,...

The Watercraft Journal’s Top 5 Most Popular Articles for 2014

We're having a lot of fun reviewing all of the numbers trickling in from our year of publishing The Watercraft Journal. Our bottle rocket-like...

Kevin Shaw: I Swear Guys, I’m Right About This One

It was late 2006 when Kawasaki introduced the world to its new full-sized runabout, the Ultra 250X. The sharply chiseled JetSki touted the biggest...

Seven Deadly Questions With Billy Crews Jr.

Watercraft Journal: Billy, your website PWCTrailFinder.com is unlike any other, where enthusiasts can go to peruse a huge catalog of long distance/adventure ride routes....

Vicious Rumors and Vile Gossip: Are Catalytic Converters In PWC’s Future?

Want to know the surefire way to cause a riot on a personal watercraft performance webforum? Threaten additional governmental intrusion on their horsepower. That's...

Farewell to a Friend: The Sport Gathers At Loss of Industry-Leader, Gary Hart

It was famed American novelist John Steinbeck who bereaved, “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if...

The Watercraft Journal By The Numbers: October 2014

One year ago, my friends. The Watercraft Journal was launched exactly a year ago, and we can hardly believe it's been that long. Birthed...

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...