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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...

Everything Counts: 2014 Sea-Doo GTR 215

When every nickle and dime matters, getting the utmost out of your investment is often a nerve-racking enterprise. Each aspect needs to be evaluated,...

The Hornet’s Nest: 2015 Yamaha VXR WaveRunner

Were Yamaha to simply carry over its 2014 lineup for 2015, many would have little reason to complain. The introduction of the SVHO (Super...

Bread & Butter: 2014 Sea-Doo GTI SE 130

There's often a disconnect between what is a good choice and what is the best choice. A noble maxim unto itself, it can be...

Locked & Fully Loaded: 2014 Yamaha FX Cruiser SVHO WaveRunner

We've grappled with the amalgam of "luxury" and "performance." Too often these terms get thrown around a little too loosely in our industry, and...

Loose Change: 2014 Sea-Doo Spark HO

It's not easy being right all the time and it's been a burden that Sea-Doo has had to live with for a while now....

Class Warfare: 2014 Sea-Doo GTX Limited 215

Right now, Sea-Doo is literally giving away features that other manufacturers would sell their own grandmothers for. Even those individuals with personal brand biases...

Renaissance Man: 2014 Yamaha FX SVHO WaveRunner

A couple of years back, Yamaha performed a few modifications to the hull of the brand's existing full-sized three-seater runabout, the FX series. By...

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...

Portable Electric Mini Jet Boats Skip the Ramp and Trailer Hassle

If you’ve ever fought a crowded boat ramp on a Saturday morning—or wrestled with a trailer in reverse while an audience gathers—you’re going to...

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...