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Test Ride a Sea-Doo Spark at America’s Motor Sports’ Sea-Doo Demo Weekend

Listen, whether you like it or not, the Sea-Doo Spark has gotten the industry's attention. The lightweight entry-level ski has made a big splash...

SE Speedmagic’s Steering Solution For The Ultra 310LX Jetsounds System

Although many had initial doubts of Kawasaki's JetSound speaker system unique to the 2014 Ultra 310LX, the buying public clearly couldn't be happier with...

Video: A Guide for Making a Smart Buy on a Used Two-Stroke PWC

Two-stroke personal watercraft go up for sale every year and more and more people are looking to get out on the water without a...

Big Announcements For Yamaha’s 2014 Pro Watercross National Tour Effort; Partnership With Dean’s Team And Riva Racing

Are you ready for a showdown? For the past six months, there has been a groundswell of buzz surrounding Yamaha's SVHO-powered FZRs and FXs...

Sydney Sea-Doo Performance’s RXP-X 260 Carbon Race Hood (Updated)

Power-to-weight ratio; the quickest way to gain some added speed is by cutting weight, and there are none more familiar with this than today's...

PWCOffshore.com Releases Offshore Racing Promotions Guidelines for Promoters

The conversation started months ago, but spiraled quickly under its own gravity into a far larger sphere when I posed the question, "If it...

Video: Maikel Gonzalez Shatters World Record With 112mph Top Speed

The numbers don't lie. It's a maxim we at The Watercraft Journal have been using and its sure to be repeated with the results...

Flashback Friday: Pierre Maixent’s Amazing Double Backflip

In yesterday's news report on Art Burgess training on his amazing $50,000 custom-built freestyle ski, we attributed much of the evolution of the sport...

Video: Ant Burgess Executes 14 Flips on His Custom $50,000 Freestyle Ski

Oh how things have changed since the early days of Freestyle. In fact, it's only in the world of closed course racing that people...

The Watercraft Journal Welcomes Kool PWC Stuff To Its Family of Advertisers

Here's a weird conundrum: recreational fishing is a huge, multi-multi-million dollar industry in the United States, yet the number of fishermen failing to use...

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...