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Date Announced for 2017 Mark Hahn Memorial Havasu 300

Like many PWC enthusiasts, riders all over the world know about the Mark Hahn Memorial 300 Mile Endurance Race. This is the “World’s Longest...

Video: Daiwa Wraps JetSkiFishing.com’s Sea-Doo In Cool Vinyl Kit

With the explosion of interest in personal watercraft fishing, riders from all over the world have started rigging their crafts with fishing pole holders,...

Come To Jet X Powersports For Service or Winterizing, Or They Can Come to You

Whether you're tucking your personal watercraft in for a long winter's nap, you're just needing to give your ride its regularly-schedule maintenance, there are...

Dean’s Team Riders Sweep Hydro-Turf Hydrodrag Stock, Spec and Superstock Classes

This weekend's Pro Watercross Hydro-Turf Hydrodrag World Championships shook the personal watercraft industry to its core with an all-new world record top speed of...

Case of The Mondays: Zapata Breaks Hoverboard Flight Record

In case you missed it, earlier this year 37-year-old Franky Zapata, inventor of the Flyboard Air, broke Alexander Duru's record of the furthest flight...

Video: Charging The Trees In a Flooded River On Vintage Kawis

Every year we field a handful of angry comments and emails from watercraft enthusiasts decrying the manufacturer's lack of building small, lightweight runabouts. Now...

Truckboss Continues Package Specials Into November, Adds Two PWC Packages

Last month, The Watercraft Journal shared four awesome truck deck packages from our friends at Truckboss Decks, namely their Snow Basic and Deluxe Bundles,...

Case of The Hump Days: What The Heck is a Sea Spi?

Yeah, yeah. We're a day late on this one. But we had some other more important stuff to get out there before goofin' on...

Dean’s Team Now Offering FZ WaveRunner Decal Wrap Kits

Want a quick way to radically customize the look and curb appeal of your Yamaha FZR or FZS? Well, sure you could toss a...

Video: Cruising 90 Miles On The Cumberland – Long Haul Episode 4

OK, so it's the first of November many of us here in the States are still wearing shorts outside. While many of us have...

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...