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Gallery: 2025 Sea-Doo Fish Pro Apex 300 (Video)

Sea-Doo first jumped into the fishing scene in 2019 with what was then just the Sea-Doo Fish Pro. Since expanding the Fish Pro family...

Gallery: Introducing the 2025 Sea-Doo Lineup (Videos)

May it never be said that Sea-Doo fails to keep us guessing. Shortly after Yamaha Motor Corp. USA unveiled a surprisingly bold push into...

Gallery: Introducing the 2025 Yamaha WaveRunner Lineup

Expectations for Yamaha's 2025 model year of WaveRunners were high, particularly in anticipation of Yamaha's response to Sea-Doo's ground-thumping salvo in the form of...

Gallery: Kawasaki Rolls Out 2025 Ultra Lineup, New Colors, Pricing & Introduces Angler JetSki

It was only a few of months ago that The Watercraft Journal was personally invited to attend the 2024 Kawasaki North American Dealer Show...

Unlocking Thrills: RIVA Racing’s Cutting-Edge Stage 1 Kits for 2024 Yamaha 1.9L Models

If you’ve been following our posts for a while now, you will have surely seen some of the reviews our Editor-in-Chief Kevin Shaw has...

Gallery: RIVA Racing Launches New Limited Edition Yamaha FX350R & GP350R (Video)

If you don't think we're in the middle of a horsepower war, you best start start looking a lot closer. While Yamaha Motors, USA...

Vicious Rumors & Vile Gossip: Spied Prototype Yamaha Teases Possible Return of Sea Saucer?

Yamaha Motor Corp. USA has an unfailing grip on the jet boat market. Retaining nearly 80-percent of all total jet boat sales in the...

Vicious Rumors & Vile Gossip: Leaked Patents Reveal The Most Advanced Kawasaki JetSkis Ever (Video)

It's been a good while since The Watercraft Journal has published an episode of "Vicious Rumors & Vile Gossip" and that's because frankly, we...

We Announce The Watercraft Journal’s 2023 Watercraft of The Year (Videos)

We're slipping this one in as close to the wire as we can. Normally, The Watercraft Journal publishes its annual Watercraft of The Year...

Gallery: 2024 Sea-Doo Spark Trixx (Video)

It's easy to forget just how dire the personal watercraft industry was looking a decade ago. Sales had plummeted nearly by half from only...

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...

Gallery: Introducing The 2017 Yamaha WaveRunner Lineup (Video)

Over time we've come to understand the certain ways that each manufacturer has in developing and introducing new product. While some play things a...