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Real Review: Dragon Alliance MDX Hydro Goggles

It's been an inside joke for years. After one particular outing with the Kawasaki crew, where we ventured through some severe weather off of...

Bread & Butter: 2014 Sea-Doo GTI SE 130

There's often a disconnect between what is a good choice and what is the best choice. A noble maxim unto itself, it can be...

Real Review: Bolt One-Key Lock Set

Admittedly, it's been a little longer since we've published one of our "Real Reviews" than we'd like. Our delay has only been due to...

Locked & Fully Loaded: 2014 Yamaha FX Cruiser SVHO WaveRunner

We've grappled with the amalgam of "luxury" and "performance." Too often these terms get thrown around a little too loosely in our industry, and...

Loose Change: 2014 Sea-Doo Spark HO

It's not easy being right all the time and it's been a burden that Sea-Doo has had to live with for a while now....

Real Review: olloclip iPhone 5/5s 4-In-1 Lens

Every now and again we get our hands on something that albeit not entirely specific to personal watercraft, fits itself perfectly in the sport....

Class Warfare: 2014 Sea-Doo GTX Limited 215

Right now, Sea-Doo is literally giving away features that other manufacturers would sell their own grandmothers for. Even those individuals with personal brand biases...

Real Review: Slippery Circuit Glove

One of the most neglected articles of riding gear (besides proper footwear) are gloves. It's not often that we jump on a ski without...

Renaissance Man: 2014 Yamaha FX SVHO WaveRunner

A couple of years back, Yamaha performed a few modifications to the hull of the brand's existing full-sized three-seater runabout, the FX series. By...

Videos: Sea-Doo Introduces Seach And Rescue (SAR) Edition PWC For 2014

While we at The Watercraft Journal were patting ourselves on the back for a pretty snappy April Fool's Joke, it would look like Sea-Doo...

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...