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Videos: Is Backflipping in Swimming Pools The Newest “Big Thing?”

With the freestyle community increasing in size every year, the tricks are getting pretty crazy. What started as guys doing barrel-rolls and flips in...

Japanese Tourist on Rental PWC Rams Moored Cruise Ship

A 17-year-old Japanese woman and her partner rented a pair of PWC from NQ Watersports while on holiday in Queensland, Australia last September. Her...

Video: The Shoreline Tubby; Built for the Yamaha WaveRunner Fishing Enthusiast

Check out Yamaha's Shoreline Tubby fiberglass fishing pods, manufactured by Racetech Yamaha in South Africa and owned by the O'Keefe family. The pods are...

Video: NASCAR Recreates Sprint Cup Round of 8 But On Yamaha WaveRunners

For many speed enthusiasts, NASCAR is the holy grail. Watching drivers practice all year, qualify in smaller events and eventually race in some of...

Video: Mud Bogging Vintage Runabouts With Typhoon Tommy And Eric Malone

Men do a lot of things on a dare. It's a character trait that separates us from our farer gender. The whole, "Hey, hold...

Video: Jet X Powersports/RIVA Racing’s Gordon Horne IJBSA Rec Lite Moto

For many, the introduction of the Sea-Doo Spark was a bit of a joke. Many questioned, "What is this thing?" and "What the heck...

Shore-Ramp’s PWC-50 Makes For Easy Docking

We've all seen our fair share of portable PWC launches, beach totes, carts and even portable docks. While some are definitely sturdier than others,...

Video: Yamaha WaveRunners Australia Congratulates Mitch Wayt on Pro Open Win

Things have been going pretty good for Pro Open Runabout racer and Gold Coast, Queensland local Mitch Wayt. Last week, the Factory Yamaha WaveRunners...

Yamaha Finance Dept. Launches New Credit Card Program

Regardless of your personal politics, these past two weeks have reveal a tectonic shift in consumer confidence, investors' projections for the new year and...

Videos: Cycle Springs Powersports & Slingshot Only’s Christmas Toy Run

For the past two months we at The Watercraft Journal have been drifting a little out of our reservation to bring you updates on...

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...