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The Watercraft Journal By The Numbers: August 2014

Everybody is saying that today marks the end of summer, and therefore the end of prime riding season. Sure, some of the signs are...

Spin Doctors: Inside Skat-Trak Performance Products

"I'm going," my father insisted when I announced that I was scheduled to tour the Calimesa, California, headquarters of legendary Skat-Trak Performance Products. The...

Kevin Shaw: The Man Who Killed The JetSki

The condensation beading off the sides of my bottled water fell freely like raindrops, pooling into a wet spot in the table cloth. The...

Gallery: Introducing The 2015 Yamaha WaveRunner Lineup

There is a major push coming out of Yamaha's Kennesaw, Georgia facility that hasn't been seen in a long, long time. Yamaha is going...

Squeeky Clean: Inside Jet Renu Headquarters

It wasn't more than a couple of weeks ago that we were driving through sunny Southern California's Inland Empire. What was once acreage of...

The Watercraft Journal By The Numbers: July 2014

Several years ago, while I worked as the Associate Editor for the now defunct monthly magazine Corvette Fever, the printers had erroneously reprinted the...

Getting a Grip: Inside Hydro-Turf Headquarters

For those old enough to remember the early years of Kawasaki 440 and 550 standups will recall how miserable the black sharkskin foam tray...

Vicious Rumors and Vile Gossip: Turbos Converge on LB2CAT

OK, this is going to be a far shorter chapter of "Vicious Rumors and Vile Gossip" but we wanted to squeak this one in...

Seven Deadly Questions With Brian Baldwin

The Watercraft Journal: Brian, thanks for spending a few minutes with us; for those of our readers who aren’t familiar with your racing career,...

The Watercraft Journal By The Numbers: June 2014

What the what? It's already July? It seems like only yesterday we were griping about winter dragging on too long, and now it's sweltering...

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...

Portable Electric Mini Jet Boats Skip the Ramp and Trailer Hassle

If you’ve ever fought a crowded boat ramp on a Saturday morning—or wrestled with a trailer in reverse while an audience gathers—you’re going to...

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...