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IJSBA selecting Havasu competitors to receive trip to race In El Salvador

IJSBA will be selecting twelve participants from IJSBA’s 2023 SBT WGP-1 World Finals, currently underway in Lake Havasu City, AZ, to participate in the...

Radinn Breaks Down the Cost of Electric Surfboards

Electric surfboards are fairly new on the market and come with a high price tag.  Electric jetboards are powered by lithium-ion batteries and motorized jetpacks,...

Broward Motorsports Expands to Exciting New Location in Miami

  We're days away from the grand opening of the new Broward Motorsports of Miami store. With an official launch date of October 14th, the...

Surf Life Saving and Sea-Doo Keeping Australian Beaches Safe

We received a press release from Melbourne, Australia’s Arrowvane about BRP and Australia’s Surf Life Saving program. Surf Life Saving has been in the...

The Watercraft Journal Welcomes Jessica Waters as Editor

Since officially launching on November 1st, 2013, The Watercraft Journal has risen to become the world's most read, most referenced and most reliable resource...

Yamaha Motor Sustainability Committee Approves New Human Rights Policy

In late June of 2023, The Watercraft Journal published a review of Yamaha Motor's far-reaching "2050 Environmental Plan" wherein the powersports manufacturer laid out...

Kspeed Teases Two Images of New Ultra Handheld Tuner

With the intarwebs all akimbo that the ECUs on the new 325-horsepower Sea-Doos are locked down tighter than Fort Knox, folks are scrambling to...

Video: Mississippi Ski Riders Demonstrate Yamaha FX Range & Fuel Gauge Issues

A little over two weeks ago, The Watercraft Journal published a short recap of of class action lawsuit filed by Mitchell Higgins against Yamaha Motor...

Yamaha WaveRunner Racing Dominated AquaX Championships in Kissimmee

Yamaha WaveRunner Racing’s Dustin Farthing and Tory Snyder pinned down the 1-2 slots, respectively, in the AquaX Pro Enduro tour standings after last weekend’s...

Yamaha Expands Durability Efforts with Salt Water Testing Facility in Duval County, FL

Yamaha Motor Corp. USA is rapidly expanding its ability to test the durability and longevity of its marine division products (boats, outboards and personal...

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...