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Videos: Newport Lifegaurds’ Rescue Jet Skier at The Wedge

Renting personal watercraft can be cost effective if you are just wanting to go have fun for the day since you don't own one....

The Best Tools To Take With You on Your Ride

With the warm weather already brewing in most states, many riders will start bringing their watercraft out of storage and riding them often. With...

Yamaha WaveRunners Australia Displays New “JetFish” WaveRunner at Melbourne Boat Show

Allow us to preface this story by assuring that The Watercraft Journal will be following up on this unique and amazing machine once the...

Videos: Two Kawasaki “Good Times Theatre” Promotions

With each year, bigger, better and faster watercraft enter the market, but what many people don’t think about is how the sport began. We...

PWC Explodes, Throwing Teenager 30 Feet In The Air

According to TakeTopNews, a jet ski explosion in Virginia Beach sent Sean Amerman, a 17-year-old teenager to the hospital Sunday afternoon with non-life-threatening injuries. The explosion...

Kawasaki USA Announces HQ Move During 50th Anniversary

Since 1969, Kawasaki Motors Corp. USA has been a fixture of the Orange County, California landscape. Their massive facility and operations headquarters in Irvine...

Case Of The Mondays: The Science of Brapology, Ep. 1 & 2

"Brap!" is the very likely most prominent word in a 2-stroke rider's vocabulary. The difference between a 2-stroke rider and a 4-stroke rider is...

Sea-Doo Announces The Top 3 Winners of The #SeaDooLife Video Contest

This time last month, The Watercraft Journal reported the unveiling of Sea-Doo's latest viral social media campaign; the #SeaDooLife video contest. Entrants were asked...

Jettribe Celebrates Father’s Day With Limited-Time Weekend Sale

Did you know that the first official observance of "Father's Day" was in 1910? But it wasn't the national holiday we know, rather, a...

RIVA Racing’s Cool Air Vent Kit for Sea-Doo RXP-X 260 and 300 models

RIVA Racing has introduced yet another very cool and quick way to add power to your PWC: new to their product line is the...

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...

Portable Electric Mini Jet Boats Skip the Ramp and Trailer Hassle

If you’ve ever fought a crowded boat ramp on a Saturday morning—or wrestled with a trailer in reverse while an audience gathers—you’re going to...

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...