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Stage Fright: RIVA Racing’s Stage III-Equipped Yamaha FZR

When it came to adequately defining the experience of riding RIVA Racing's Yamaha SVHO-powered FZR test mule, we kept coming back to one word:...

Carbon Fighter: 2015 Kawasaki Ultra 310X JetSki

It started in 2007 with the 250-horsepower Kawsaki Ultra 250X. The next year, when rivaled by Sea-Doo's '08 255HP X-series, Kawasaki raised the bar...

Switchblade: 2015 Gibbs Quadski XL

At first blush, it's almost too much to take in. High reaching fender flares jut out at aggressive angles. A broad trapezoidal grille gapes...

Scorched Earth: 2015 Kawasaki Ultra 310X SE JetSki

It's difficult to adequately verbalize the sensation of manhandling a personal watercraft that simply does not want just anybody to ride it. Like the...

Rock Solid: 2015 Yamaha FZS SVHO WaveRunner

Admittedly, the differences between Yamaha's 2015 SVHO-powered FZS and FZR are almost indistinguishable. The prices are identical, with a US MSRP of $14,699. Both...

Tropical Punch: 2015 Sea-Doo GTI 155 SE

When the pictures were first leaked revealing the 2015 Sea-Doo lineup, we have to admit that our initial reaction was curious at best. As...

We Announce The Watercraft Journal 2014 Watercraft of The Year

It struck us as being incredibly premature to make an announcement as to which new personal watercraft model would be the best for the...

A Hole In One: 2015 Yamaha VX Cruiser WaveRunner

Starting with a blank sheet and decades of proven modeling experience and techniques, Yamaha sought to completely redesign its bread-and-butter VX Series. The difficulty...

Cutting Corners: 2015 Sea-Doo RXP-X 260 (Video)

Speechless. Well, more appropriately, wordless. For several hours following our testing of Sea-Doo’s 2015 RXP-X 260, a blinking cursor and blank screen defied us to...

Fearsome Flagship: 2015 Yamaha FX SVHO Cruiser WaveRunner

It's often a very gray line that separates a full-blown performance watercraft from a top-of-the-line luxury watercraft. While some lean to hard to the...

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...