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Blake Corning Announces 2017 IJSBA Water X Schedule

With 2017's prime riding season upon us, it's now time to start getting the finalized schedules for the many regional and local racing series....

Videos: Follow PWCMuscle’s Yamaha GP1800 Build

There's no hiding it; the 2017 Yamaha GP1800 WaveRunner has got to be the most popular machine in the hands of tuners today. The...

Video: Big Wave Surfers Swamped in Massive Atlantic Swell

Like an invading swarm, hundreds of the world's most daring big wave surfers have descended upon Nazare, the famous Portugal wave location. A recent...

Hawaiian Water Patrol All Grown Up

The Hawaiian Water Patrol (HWP) was founded by former Honolulu City and County lifeguards Terry Ahue and Brian Keaulana. What started out as a...

Mike Follmer Thanks Participants of 2017 Hot Products Mark Hahn 300

Little more than three weeks ago, the 13th annual Hot Products Mark Hahn Memorial Havasu 300 Presented by Yamaha kicked off with the bang...

Videos: Is The Vincent Amanda Water Scooter The First True PWC?

It's a story most all of us know by heart: Inventor and designer Clayton Jacobson II first birthed the notion of a motorized personal...

Case of The Mondays: You Can’t Freestyle a RXP-X In a Pool

"Australia Day" was a month ago and people are still calling in sick from the hangovers. What once was the official "National Day of...

Need a Change of Scenery? Apply For a Career At Western Power Sports

For those not paying attention, the economy is banging like, hardcore. The Dow Jones Industrial has hit an all-time high for a 10th time...

Video: 2017 Yamaha VX Series WaveRunners

The current VX WaveRunner design configuration is now three years old, but in that time it has proven itself a formidable platform. Not only...

Mike Young’s Hydro-Turf Surf & Turf Promotions To Organize Closed Course, Hydrodrag Events In Southeast

Reunited, and it feels so good! For those who were in attendance at last October's IJSBA World Finals, you would've noticed a very familiar...

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...