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Video: Rick Roy Introduces New Rickter 2015 XFS & XFS Competition Skis

Montreal, Canada's favorite freestyle son, Rick Roy continues to dominate the world of professional freestyle but from a completely different vantage point. The four-time...

Videos: Two Australian Lifeguards Ride 3,000KM For Suicide Prevention

Two Australian lifeguards - Trent "Maxi" Maxwell, and Jesse Pollock - have participated in the retrieval of a dozen bodies from Bondi Beach's notorious...

Video: JetSkiShop.com Puts Two Models & JetPilot’s Slingshot Towable Through The Ringer

We can always count on the crew from Queensland, Australia's JetSkiShop.com to provide some fun, top notch video footage from their weekly exploits (seriously,...

Flashback Friday: WMF Watercraft Dusts Off 21-Year-Old RIVA Racing Team Video

We're not the types to sit around and pine for the "glory days," but there's something to be said when regional promoters put on...

Get Carried Away With Unishippers, The Watercraft Journal’s Newest Advertiser For 2014/2015

For some, the cost of hauling their prized machine across half a continent (or even beyond) far outweighs that of crating it up and...

Aquacart Lift Slings Make Loading And Launching Easier

It's a cold, hard reality, folks: the temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere are dropping (you know it's bad when the Jetski Junkies are wearing...

PWIA Earns NASBLA Seal of Safe Boating Practices Award

Good news in the world of personal watercraft! the Personal Watercraft Industry Association (PWIA) is receiving some national recognition for its PWC renter orientation...

Factory Yamaha/Dean’s Team Racers Sweep Stock Class Podium in Phuket

Pro Runabout Stock class is not where you want to be if you're anything other than one of the very few hand-selected Factory Yamaha...

Alex Strachan’s PWC “Ride for Kalydeco” to Fight Cystic Fibrosis

All of us at The Watercraft Journal never hesitate to help promote a worthwhile cause, particularly when it's to help fight a horrible disease...

Video: Help Support Professional Female Flyboarders to Compete in King’s Cup

Slated for December 3rd through the 7th, the 2014 Jet Ski World Cup - better known as the King's Cup - is fast approaching...

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...