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We Announce The Watercraft Journal’s 2022 Watercraft of The Year (Videos)

Typically, The Watercraft Journal issues its annual Watercraft of The Year award a little earlier in the month. Yet, this year's results resulted in...

Gallery: 2023 Sea-Doo RXP-X 300 Apex (Video)

Admittedly, we didn't see this one coming. In recent years, Sea-Doo has made custom one-off watercraft for celebrities or unique events that garner the...

Gallery: 2022 Kawasaki Ultra 310LX vs. 2022 Sea-Doo GTX Limited 300 (Video)

It's not often we get our hands on two of the industry's leading machines but these past few months have allowed us exclusive access...

Gallery: 2022 Sea-Doo GTX Limited 300 (Video)

Easily one of the best rides I had been on was exploring Pamlico Sound and Cape Hatteras. That was waaay back in 2008, so...

Gallery: 2022 Kawasaki Ultra 310LX-S JetSki (Video)

Maaan, I really wanted to love all three of Kawasaki's new 310-horsepower JetSkis but the 2022 Ultra 310LX-S just feels like a missed opportunity....

Gallery: 2022 Kawasaki Ultra 310X JetSki (Video)

OK, this one's gonna go a bit differently. Some of you are gonna love this review. Some of you are really not gonna like...

Gallery: 2022 Kawasaki Ultra 310LX JetSki (Video)

Admittedly, we went into testing the new 2022 Kawasaki Ultra 310LX JetSki with quite a bit of trepidation. Although long awaited, the redesign and...

10 Hours In: An Owner’s Review oF the 2022 Kawasaki 310LX-S

On April 12th, 2022 Christmas came early. My Kawasaki dealer notified me that a 2022 Kawasaki Ultra 310LX-S was just uncrated and was sitting...

Gallery: 2022 Sea-Doo Fish Pro Trophy vs. 2022 Sea-Doo Fish Pro Lineup (Video)

What we've found during our testing of the new 2022 Sea-Doo Fish Pro Trophy is that the Trophy is, without a doubt, the flagship...

2022 Sea-Doo FishPro Trophy vs. 2022 Yamaha FX HO & JetFish Premium Package

Yamaha and Sea-Doo have taken radically different approaches to the flourishing PWC fishing market, but the results are the same: Both brands listened to...

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...