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Jet Skis Banned Along Australia’s Adelaide Coastline

Jet skis and motor boats are banned during the summer along a three kilometer stretch of the metropolitan coast of Australia's Adelaide Coast. Motorized...

Video: 2015 Yamaha VX Series WaveRunners Overview

Last year was a good one for the brand with the tuning fork, but if you thought 2014 was Yamaha's year we gotta say...

11th Annual Mark Hahn Memorial 300 Joins 2015 JetRacer Endurance World Championship

The world's longest-consecutive endurance races, as well as one of the most honored events to have risen out of the past two decades -...

Register at The Nashville Boat Show to Win a Sea-Doo Spark

There's some great stuff happening now with the New Year - specifically, it's boat show season! Yup, there still might be ice on the...

Case of The Mondays: Closed Course IWA Snowmobile Racing

Sure, jet skis shooting around the lake and cutting a few buoys is second nature for a personal watercraft, but how about a snowmobile?...

Now You Get Your EZ Throttle on Amazon.com Today!

Does anybody else remember that terrible fad of online grocery shopping (PinkDot.com, anyone)? While ideal for the incredibly lazy or the chronically agoraphobic, that...

Video: Tiny Two-Strokes Power These Jetsurf Boards Around The Closed Course

Hey! What better way to kick off the New Year than something from our "Now For Something Completely Different" department? We reported on quite...

WCJ’s 2015 New Year’s Resolution: Always Ride With PWC Insurance

This year, you've likely picked up on the Personal Watercraft Industry Association's awesome Safe Rider Pledge, encouraging everyone who is planning on hitting the...

Video: XScream Recaps Their 2014 World Finals Team Experience

Every year in October, the IJSBA World Finals takes place at Crazy Horse Campground in beautiful Lake Havasu, Arizona. This is typically referred to...

Don’t Miss The One Day King of Daytona Beach Event

You'd think that January would be reasonably quiet when it comes to jet skiing, right? Nope. If you're not already prepping for the Mark...

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...