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A Peek Inside Belassi: The Austrian PWC Company Releases Inside Info From Inside Its HQ

We at The Watercraft Journal have a bit of a love/hate affair going on with Belassi. It's not that we're angry or vengeful against...

Gallery: Inside The Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation Of America

This year marks the single largest growth of new vehicle sales in a decade. In fact, the total new vehicle sales total of 67,500-plus...

Mechanical Eye: SBT’s Quality Control Nuclear Option

Precision is the single-most important trait when it comes to mass production of machine parts. After all of the time and effort is spent...

By Any Means: Inside Crazy Joe’s Customs And The BAM Freestyle Hull

Back in 1999, “Crazy Joe” Davis and his wife, Connie from New Baltimore, Michigan started racing jet skis. They started traveling all over the...

Gallery: Behind The Doors At California Freestyle

Recently, The Watercraft Journal had the pleasure of talking with Josh Bradwell over at California Freestyle. For those that don’t know California Freestyle, they...

Gallery: Inside of RIVA Racing Development Team

What would you do if you had at your command a team of highly trained engine tuners, technicians, fabricators, electronics specialists and machinists all...

On The Ground Level at SBT’s New Marine Mat Headquarters

It's funny how things come about. Greg Pickren first launched SBT, Inc (Short Block Technologies, incorporated) in 1997, building the company in to the...

Gallery: Cycle Springs Powersports’ Buying Experience Difference

It means quite a bit to earn Yamaha's highest dealer satisfaction award several times over. It also speaks loudly when a dealership earns Yamaha's...

Cycle Springs Reveals New Massive PWC Service Center

Earlier this month The Watercraft Journal reported on the fire that cost Cycle Springs Powersports nearly $1 million dollars in damages to their motorcycle...

Gallery: Cycle Springs Is Poised To Move More PWC Than Ever Before

Behind closed doors there's a race towards sales supremacy that goes unseen by the typical personal watercraft enthusiast. Dealers vie for territories, expanding their...

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...