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Tropical Punch: 2015 Sea-Doo GTI 155 SE

When the pictures were first leaked revealing the 2015 Sea-Doo lineup, we have to admit that our initial reaction was curious at best. As...

Real Review: JetPilot Phantom Gloves

Our last few riding gear reviews have been a little too confined to a hardcore riders and PWC racers, so it's actually kinda nice...

Real Review: 2014 Offshore National Championship Race, “The LB2CAT” DVD

It’s the longest continuous offshore, open-ocean race in the United States. Also being the 20th anniversary, “Long Beach to Catalina and Back” or “LB2CAT,”...

We Announce The Watercraft Journal 2014 Watercraft of The Year

It struck us as being incredibly premature to make an announcement as to which new personal watercraft model would be the best for the...

The Watercraft Journal’s Top 10 Christmas Gifts For Jet Skiers

As our friend Ross Champion quipped about the season, "Commerce, the true meaning of Christmas."  While the true meaning of the holiday has been...

Real Review: Fly Racing F2 Acetylene Helmet

We've prefaced a previous Real Review with the same level of trepidation as this article will only speak to a very small percentage of...

Real Review: JetPilot Flight Lace Up Race Boots

It's a small point of pride that we at The Watercraft Journal have that we only do our product reviews on items that we...

Real Review: EZ Throttle Trigger Extension (Gallery)

I'm not sure if you have the problem I do, but pretty much every ride that I do: I find my throttle hand cramping...

A Hole In One: 2015 Yamaha VX Cruiser WaveRunner

Starting with a blank sheet and decades of proven modeling experience and techniques, Yamaha sought to completely redesign its bread-and-butter VX Series. The difficulty...

Real Review: JetPilot Apex Race John & Jacket

Admittedly, it's difficult to write a product review on something that so few will often wear. Not so much because it's an alien subject...

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...