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PWCs involved in 7% of boating deaths in 2024, down from 8% in 2023

At the start of the month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard released the annual Recreational Boating Statistics report...

New Report Predicts Continued Growth In PWC Market

Last week, BusinessWire and several other industry and finance publications highlighted a recently released overview of the market for Personal Watercraft and other small...

Video: Diving into the Details of One Of PWC Racing’s Top Ski Manufacturer

If you’re a frequent reader of The Watercraft Journal, you’ll know that we are quite enthusiastic about following the exciting news that comes out...

Taiga Launches Mobile App Updates, Details 2025 Orca Features & Cuts Prices

The Watercraft Journal has written about Taiga several times before, beginning in 2019 with the pre-production introduction of their Orca Electric Personal Watercraft. We...

RIVA Racing’s Clearance Sale Brings Big Savings on Jetpilot Gear

There’s nothing like a good clearance sale to get us excited about bringing some new PWC gear home, and RIVA Racing is proving once...

Video: Vintage Wet Bike Takes on Big Waves in Wild YouTube Test

Putting six young guys and a vintage piece of watercraft history out in the middle of some big waves with nothing but a camera...

BRP Lauded For Red Dot Design Team Of The Year Award At Prestigious Ceremony

Red Dot Award: Product Design 2025 – The best designers of the year celebrate in Essen On 8 July 2025, Essen became the hotspot of...

Successful PWC Rescue on Lake Michigan Highlights Importance of Safe Riding

While it’s never good to hear about any kind of wreck or accident—especially out on the water—we’re always happy when we get to see...

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...

Impros Has the Tools You Need for Precise PWC Maintenance

When it comes to PWC care, it can sometimes be the small details which make the biggest difference. Whether it’s carrying out some regular...

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...