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Real Review: Cargo Wave PWC Trailer

I was young, but I can still remember my father attempting to tether a pair of lawn chairs to a boogie board to the...

Exclusive: 2015 Sea-Doo Spark to Feature First Hybrid Electric PWC (Updated)

A year ago, word leaked that Sea-Doo was building a new lightweight entry-level runabout: the Spark. Since then and its worldwide public reveal last...

Easy Rider: 2014 Sea-Doo GTX 155

It wasn't long after we reviewed Yamaha's 2014 FX HO Cruiser that we were invited to take the equally-equipped 2014 GTX 155 out for...

Real Review: MacWet Sports Gloves

A couple of months ago, we got a very nice email asking us if we'd be willing to do a review on a pair...

Sheer Brilliance: 2014 Yamaha FX HO Cruiser WaveRunner

If there is one thing we've seen the Yamaha Motor Company excel at over the other OE manufacturers is offering a runabout that is...

Real Review: Guardian Tri-Layer Trailerable Ratchet PWC Cover

Let me begin with a short story: Around six years ago, I built a very custom Kawasaki Ultra 250X while at Personal Watercraft Illustrated (I...

Real Review: Jettribe’s RS-15 Race Suit

Although winter is putting up one heck of a fight, temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere are finally ticking upwards (albeit a little too slow...

Real Review: The Complete Jet Renu Watercraft Cleaning System

If there's one thing we pride ourselves on here at The Watercraft Journal is really beating on our test subjects for our weekly reviews....

The Gilded Missile: 2014 Kawasaki Ultra 310LX JetSki

Even now, four months after my first foray with the 2014 Kawasaki Ultra 310LX, I'm not sure where I stand. Albeit a short dalliance...

Real Review: Slippery Rev Side-Entry Vest

So far, we've had nothing but great things to say about Slippery's products in our weekly "Real Reviews" section, and for good reason. Slippery,...

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...