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You Can Pre-order Your 2016 Sea-Doo Watercraft Today

Let's face it, there's a lot of you who were pretty excited with what Sea-Doo rolled out for 2016. Even more impressive, we the...

JR Stars Offers A Day for the Juniors with the Pros

Personal watercraft racing is commonly compared with motocross racing because that is where it was derived. During the 1970's, motocross riders referred to it...

Yamaha Offers Industry’s Largest Range of Financing and Purchasing Options

Whoa. If you were considering either purchasing, leasing or trading in your old watercraft for a new 2016 WaveRunner, then you're in some serious...

Video: Jet Ski Patrol Wrangles 10-foot Alligator on Venice Beach

Normally, this is the sort of stuff you'd expect to hear coming out of Australia, but not today. Lieutenant Gregory Rose with the Sarasota...

Videos: Mansory Builds Carbon Fiber 550HP “Black Marlin” RXT-X RS

Maybe it's because we've become jaded from spending too much time on the Internet, but we're a little dubious of this "super ski." Unveiled...

Blacktip Jetsports To Be Title Sponsor for 2016 Daytona Freeride

Yes, it's only September, but planning for the 12th annual Daytona Freeride is well underway. Thanks to all the effort of event promoter Nicholas...

Case of The Mondays: Four Oil Drums + Riding Lawnmower = a Homebuilt Jet Ski?

Wow, just wow! This is one of the most ridiculous contraptions we have seen, a lawnmower turned into possibly, the loosest use of the...

Sea-Doo to Elevate IJSBA World Finals to The Next Level

Can you believe that the IJSBA World Finals is less than two weeks away? Let's not forget that Fall "officially" began yesterday. Seriously. What...

Video: Jet Bum Jet Ski Ramp Reinvents One-Man Launching

There is definitely a resurgence in the good ol' standup jet ski's popularity happening right now. Not only is Yamaha selling more SuperJets year-after-year-after-year...

Video: Shocking Dana Point PWC Crash Caught On Video

CBS Los Angeles (CBSLA) reported that a father and his young son were pulled from the water and taken to a California hospital after...

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...