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NASA Reaches Out To Personal Watercraft Supplier Hydro-Turf For Special Project

What happens when all existing industry materials fail to meet the standards of NASA for a special command module project?  They simply turn to...

Mapping The Future: RIVA Racing’s Master Tuner, Jesus Garcia

As personal watercraft have continued to march towards further digital innovation, the aftermarket has had to adapt and evolve to meet the pace. Advanced...

The Watercraft Journal By The Numbers: Record Growth for 2020

First launched on New Year's Day in 2013 under the name Watercraft Performance – and later rebranded The Watercraft Journal in Fall of that...

The Watercraft Journal’s 2020 Top 10 Christmas Gifts For Jet Skiers

Normally, we here at The Watercraft Journal are ardently opposed to early Christmas decorating; but considering the $#%&-show that 2020 has added up to...

Volunteer SAR with Captain Ron Hagerman and his Team

Recently, we received an email from Captain Ron Hagerman who commands a search and rescue team based in southwestern Florida. He contacted us soon...

Gallery: Introducing The 2021 Sea-Doo Lineup

Admittedly, this was probably the tightest-lipped Sea-Doo had been in years. Given the past several months, we at The Watercraft Journal had high hopes...

Seven Deadly Questions with Fizzle Factory’s James Blanch

It was the shot heard around the world; the fastest personal watercraft record had been broken. Not just broken, but wholly smashed and ground...

Gallery: Introducing The 2021 Yamaha WaveRunner Lineup (Video)

Let's just get right to it: Personal watercraft sales are the highest they've been since 2007. Just last year, the total number of new...

Gallery: Kawasaki Europe Reveals 2021 JetSki Lineup Early

With less than two weeks away from the 2021 Yamaha WaveRunners official reveal, it would appear that Kawasaki's European division jumped the starter's pistol...

Gallery: Taiga Orca Reveals Trio of 2021 Electric PWC & Pricing

It was back in September of last year when The Watercraft Journal revealed to the world the first-ever production electric PWC. Christened the Orca,...

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...