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Gallery: Top 10 2022 Personal Watercraft for First Time Owners (Video)

International travel restrictions have seen a spike in the number of people wanting to holiday at home, get into boating, or buy a personal...

Gallery: RIVA Racing Limited Edition Yamaha SuperJet Build (Video)

Earlier this year, we went down to RIVA Racing, and got exclusive access to several awesome Limited Edition machines built for some lucky customers....

Gallery: 2022 Yamaha FX Limited SVHO WaveRunner (Video)

Yamaha Motor Corp. USA has a way of making moves in small, precise increments. Changes often don't come as big overt swings, but rather,...

Recapping Greenhulk Garage’s 2022 Impressions & Opinions

If you’re in the market for a brand new PWC then you’re in luck! Sea-Doo and Yamaha have both crushed the 2022 model lineup...

Gallery: 2022 Sea-Doo Switch Lineup; Base, Sport & Cruise Packages (Video)

Well before Covid lockdowns encouraged tens of thousands of people to explore local lakes and waterways, recreational boat sales were already steadily climbing. And...

Gallery: 2022 Yamaha JetBlaster WaveRunner (Video)

"Today's watercraft are just too big," one commenter wrote. "They're not fun anymore. You can't whip 'em around like you used to." Boy, have...

Gallery: 2022 Yamaha FX HO WaveRunner & RecDeck Accessory Packages (Video)

It didn't require much imagination to rightly predict what Yamaha's response to the swelling demand for a PWC fishing-capable WaveRunner would be. Rather than...

Vicious Rumors & Vile Gossip: Is The 2022 Ultra 310X Kawasaki’s Ultimate JetSki?

We at The Watercraft Journal have ventured out on limb more than once, particularly when it comes to predicting the moves within Kawasaki USA....

Vicious Rumors & Vile Gossip: Images of Redesigned 2022 Kawasaki Ultra Leaked

Nothing draws people's attention more than "new" and Kawasaki's watercraft division simply hasn't had a lot of "new" to bandy about – the redesign...

Candy-Coated Fury: 2020 Kawasaki STX 160LX Long Term Review (Video)

Admittedly, it would be a little misleading to call the 2020 Kawasaki STX 160LX a completely designed JetSki. It's not that it's not radically...

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...