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Towing Matters: 2015 Sea-Doo Wake Pro 215

It is very likely this will be our last review of a 2015 model before the 2016 Sea-Doos are revealed. There's so much buzz...

Real Review: Jobe Ruthless Molded Side-Entry Vest

At first we were a little concerned that we had put on some extra weight. In our previous review of Jobe's Youth Progress Neo...

Endless Summer: 2016 Yamaha VX Limited WaveRunner

Conventional wisdom would have you thinking that in order to compete with Sea-Doo's Spark that Yamaha would need to build an equally-compact, lightweight runabout...

Gallery: RIVA Racing’s 2016 Yamaha FZR 350

Yogi Berra once quipped, "You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go." With the...

Mission Control: 2015 Sea-Doo Wake 155

Sea-Doo's introduction of its Wake models was a bold move towards a specific market that many didn't believed would be receptive to a committed...

Real Review: JetPilot A-10 Attack Side-Entry Vest

Since its original days of dayglow wetsuits and iridescent vest, JetPilot has become an almost inseparable part of the PWC racing community over the...

Real Review: Jobe Sports’ Youth Progress Neo Vest

Upon retreating from both battles at Lexington and Concord, Britain's conscription infantry noted that the revolting colonists were alarmingly over-sized compared to the average...

Baker’s Dozen: 2015 Kawasaki STX-15F JetSki

The title of this review might sound a little strange until you realize that's how many years that the Kawasaki STX-15F is (with a...

Real Review: SeaSpecs Stealth Black Sunglasses

We've caught our share of grief from some eagle-eyed commenters who after posting one too many watercraft reviews noticed we regularly wear the same...

Real Review: EZ Throttle Sea-Doo iTC Trigger Extension (Gallery)

Those of our more studious readers will recognize that a review of Ron Ripple's EZ Throttle was conducted by The Watercraft Journal's correspondent and...

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...