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Video: V-Tech Reflashed ECU Pushes Stock Sea-Doo RXP-X 300 Over 80mph

Ever since the release of the 300-horsepower Sea-Doos back in September, there has been a lot of speculation as to what they would be...

The Watercraft Journal Partners With Truckboss Decks For 2016

What if you could haul your full-sized runabout - no, wait. What if you could haul both of your full-sized runabouts in the back...

PWCOffshore.com GUNZ Racer GL Legendre to Race 2016 Mark Hahn 300

In less than two months, the annual Mark Hahn Memorial Havasu 300 race will be held on the shores of the Crazy Horse Campground...

Case of The Mondays: PWC Used As Props In Car Ads For 40 Years

What you're looking at is possibly the first advertisement for a new car using personal watercraft (or specifically Kawasaki's then-groundbreaking JetSki) as a central...

Video: Last PWC Drag Race of The Year Fetches $17K For Winner

A little over a week ago, we had MVP Productions’ Manuel Valdes provide us a glimpse into the world of private one-on-one PWC drag...

Enter The Watercraft Journal’s 2016 Skyway Show Signup Sweepstakes

In addition to SBT's sizzling annual calendar, the industry's leading (and largest) engine remanufacturer hosts - via the Watercraft Superstore - the annual Skyway...

2015 Gold Coast WaveRunners Summer Ride Day for Charity

Earlier this month, over 30 watercraft and many more participants gathered at one of the Gold Coast's favorite spots, Broadwater for the 2015 Gold...

APE Releases Manual Cam Chain Tensioner for Yamaha 1.8L Engines

Yamaha stepped up their performance game in 2014, unveiling an all new SVHO (Super Vortec High Output) engine capable of producing roughly 265-horsepower. While...

Video: Anthony Burgess Featured in Taco Bell Commercial

We've seen personal watercraft showcased in mainstream commercials before, in fact, several are quite funny (while a few are not so much). So when...

Case of The Mondays: Did Steve Jobs Help Develop an Electric Sea-Doo? (Video)

We know, we know. This sounds like a prank, and trust us, we know all about pulling off the perfect "electric PWC" prank (we've...

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...