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Gallery: Introducing The New 2016 333-Horsepower Belassi B3R

What you're seeing here is yet another starry-eyed, glistening manifestation of an ever-hopeful dream crying to be actualized. The 2016 Belassi B3R vows to...

Gallery: RIVA Racing’s Limited Edition 2016 Yamaha FZR 350 #9

The laser-etched plaque mounted to the engine's powder coated-red valve cover read "Serial No. 09 of 25." Reading it aloud, I couldn't help but...

Running a Lap In Luxury: 2016 Yamaha FX SVHO Cruiser WaveRunner (Video)

Starting your day on the water is a wonderful feeling. The clean, calm water, a light breeze and a mate to cruise with. Even...

Gallery: RIVA Racing’s Limited Edition 2016 Yamaha FZR 350

First, it was a handful of grainy cell phone pics hitting social media threads. Then came a few photo studio images from RIVA Racing...

We Announce The Watercraft Journal 2015 Watercraft of The Year

In coming to a conclusion to last year's far-from-unanimous decision to award the 2014 Sea-Doo Spark the "Watercraft of The Year," we wondered if...

Muddy Breaks: Inside Claude Clayton’s 2015 Sea-Doo RXP-X Bolt 85 Project

"But, it's only like, two bolts!" Claude Clayton protested emphatically. "It takes me 15 minutes to swap it out." Yes, the Sea-Doo X-Team racer...

Beyond The Pale: 2016 Yamaha FX SVHO WaveRunner

72-plus-miles per hour. We wouldn't have believed it had we not just done it ourselves. Aboard a showroom stock 2016 Yamaha FX SVHO WaveRunner,...

This Banana Splits: 2015 Yamaha FX SVHO WaveRunner

It's actually hard to remind oneself that it was only little over a year ago that Yamaha introduced their entire 2015 lineup with the...

Aggravated Assault: 2016 Sea-Doo RXT-X 300 (Video)

How do you get a middleweight boxer to hit like a heavyweight and be as light on his feet as a featherweight? That, we...

Reign of Terror: 2016 Sea-Doo RXP-X 300 (Video)

"God must love crazy people," Masoud, the Afghani Mujahideen freedom fighter goads Sylvester Stallone's John Rambo, "...because He makes so many of them." If...

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...