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Happy August 15th, International Day of the Jet Ski

Sometimes, there's just very little that can be added. When we came across this post on Australian PWC forum jetskiclub.com.au in celebration of the...

Video: Hydro-Turf Used In Monumental SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft

We've had quite a bit of news coming in from our friends at Hydro-Turf lately. Although this latest bit of info isn't exactly focused...

Video: Freerider Couple Ride Along With Pod of Dolphins

A couple handholds in a lightweight hood. A Hydro-Turf chin pad. A custom air brushed paint job. Yup. All signs of a cool freeride...

Video: Watch Kawasaki’s POV Look at Racing The Long Beach-To-Catalina Offshore

Last month, The Watercraft Journal dared the elements and a whole lot of common sense to compete in the annual Long Beach-to-Catalina Offshore National...

Video: Flashback Friday, Kawasaki JetSki Story 1975

Spending a couple of days with Yamaha's Scott "Hollywood" Watkins has a way of getting standup skis on your mind. That's how this week...

The Global AquaMoto GP Championships Brings More Classes and Events

So what is The Global AquaMoto GP Championships, you ask? It's a race that every PWC has a class to race in. According to...

Jettrim Vintage Ski Museum Back For 2014 IJSBA World Finals, But As Community Exhibit

If you didn't already have 10,000 different reasons to attend the annual IJSBA World Finals, one in particular was the ever-present Jettrim Vintage Museum...

Video: Get Your Next Pizza Delivered By Personal Watercraft

Good salesmanship is problem solving, and Nick Ferrugia, owner of The Long Lake Grocery in Grand Traverse County, Colorado, has solved a major problem...

Video: Renters Avoid Near Fatal Crash, Endangering Beach Goers (Updated)

Normally, this is not the sort of thing you'd find here at The Watercraft Journal, solely because we purposely try to avoid the glorification...

IJSBA Announces Saturday Night Under The Bridge Freestyle Show

It's no small thing that both articles today are announcements pertaining to the upcoming Jettribe IJSBA World Finals happening the second weekend in October....

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...