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Video: Prepare To Be Stoked For PWC Arena Racing in 2015

In the wake of a less than chart-topping IJSBA World Finals in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, there's been a whole lot of chatter that...

Watcon Joins The Watercraft Journal For 2014/2015

We've said it before and we'll say it again, while many are looking at these winter months as the time to hang it up...

Sea-Doo GTX Melts in Storage Facility Fire

First, let it be understood that at temperatures over 414°F, all of the polymer plastics found on today's modern watercraft would pool in to...

Diptech Performance Offers Big Power Kawasaki and Sea-Doo Performance Kits

For many north of the equator, these are the months to either mothball your personal watercraft as the winter chill makes riding just too...

The Watercraft Journal Partners With Jet Angler For 2014/2015

Well, if that pesky Polar Vortex everybody is freaking out over actually does what is predicted, we might be repeating last year's rotten (and...

RIVA Racing Launches Stage 3 Performance Kit Campaign Featuring Aero Aswar

It's only coincidental that The Watercraft Journal published its most recent interview with current 2014 IJSBA Pro Runabout Stock World Champion, Aero Aswar and...

Japanese PWC Lost During 2011 Tsunami Returned After Washing Ashore in Hawaii

Yup, you read that title right. A Yamaha WaveBlaster lost by Tomo­mune Matsu­naga from Fukushima, Japan, during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami washed ashore...

Charles Bombardier Proposes Sea-Doo Powered Remote-Controlled PWC Drones to Patrol Northwest Passage

There were days when science fiction was the only place where warfare was conducted remotely, as pilots and strategists piloted planes, tanks and even...

America’s Motor Sports Makes ’14 Powersports Business Power 50 Dealer List

For the second year in a row, America’s Motor Sports has been named as one of the Power 50 dealers in North America by...

Yeehaw! 2015 Pro Watercross Tour Comes to Lewisville, TX

OK, OK. So there's some things that have yet to be fully fleshed out concerning the whole landscape of personal watercraft racing for 2015,...

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...