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Heads Up Showdown Pt.2: ’18 Sea-Doo RXT-X 300 vs. ’19 Yamaha WaveRunner FX SVHO

  Back in June's first "Heads Up Showdown" where we pinned the 2018 Sea-Doo RXT-X 300 ($15,699) against the 2018 Yamaha GP1800 WaveRunner ($13,999), we...

A Worthy Successor: 2019 Yamaha FX Limited SVHO (Video)

An honor typically bestowed upon the most advanced, highest decorated or deadliest ship in the fleet, the flagship was the vessel to carry the...

A Little Bit Softer Now: 2018 Yamaha VX Cruiser HO WaveRunner (Video)

"It's $600 less?" I balked. Staring at the open windows on my computer screen, the evidence was looking me straight in the face. According...

Heads Up Showdown: ’18 Sea-Doo RXT-X 300 vs. ’18 Yamaha WaveRunner GP1800

It's been a standing policy since launching in 2013 that The Watercraft Journal doesn't do shootouts. Certainly, the logistics of performing a shootout between...

In Brief: 2018 Sea-Doo Wake Pro 230 (Video)

Typically, our full-length personal watercraft reviews are...well, a little more lengthy. Admittedly, we had only a few hours aboard the all-new 2018 Sea-Doo Wake...

Gallery: RIVA Racing’s Stage III-Equipped 2018 Sea-Doo RXT-X 300

My impatience had turned into visual frustration as the azure blue sky above Pompano Beach, Florida, faded into silver clouds, eventually darkening into an...

It Ain’t No Black Magic: 2018 Sea-Doo RXT 230

By mid-afternoon, Lake Havasu was churning like a bathtub. The IJSBA World Finals were chewing through their final motos for the day, and the...

Gallery: RIVA Racing Limited-Edition 2018 Yamaha GP1800R (Video)

"So what's stock?" Dave Bamdas queried, already knowing the answer. "What, like 250 horsepower? Yeah, this has a hundred over that. 350." The president...

Just For Kicks: 2017 Sea-Doo GTR-X 230 Long Term Review

Having lived with the same 2017 Sea-Doo GTR-X 230 for nearly a year, it's difficult to step back and permit oneself to opine about...

Caution: Black Ice; 2018 Yamaha VXR WaveRunner (Video)

"Well, this sucks." I groaned, trying to wash the ocher-red mud from the footwells. Georgia's Lake Allatoona is one of the most striking in...

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...