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Sixteen-Year-Old Sets Out Across U.S to Set Wakeboarding Record

16-year-old Becca Stuck isn't like most other North Carolina teens her age. While most look forward to spending their summer vacation sleeping in and...

RIVA, Hydro-Turf Rider Lagopoulos Switches Teams; Joins Yamaha for 2016

Loyalty is what makes or breaks a professional racer, and only a very few know how to represent their sponsors with the professionalism necessary...

Video: Sea-Doo Extends Its “Share Your SeaDooLife”‬ Contest

Attention Sea-Doo riders! Chances are that many of you will be taking your watercraft out this holiday weekend. Your local areas will be filled...

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...

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...