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Making The Modern Retro: 2020 Yamaha EX Sport WaveRunner (Video)

When Yamaha entered into the Rec Lite segment with its EX series in 2017, many of us at The Watercraft Journal noted that the...

Meeting All Expectations: 2020 Yamaha VX Deluxe WaveRunner

If you're watching this because you're in the market for one of Yamaha's best-selling personal watercraft from 2020, you're gonna want to start looking...

Video: 2021 Sea-Doo RXP-X 300 vs. 2021 Yamaha GP1800R SVHO Shootout

Let's just begin with this: None of us guessed this one right. And frankly, there's gonna be some seriously obnoxious gloating online. Nevertheless, it...

Video: 2021 Yamaha GP1800R SVHO vs. 2020 Yamaha GP1800R SVHO Shootout

It's incredible what a few tweaks to an existing platform can make. In 2017, Yamaha introduced to the world the GP1800 – with the...

Gallery: RIVA Racing Limited Edition 2021 Sea-Doo RXT-X 350 & RXP-X 350

The RIVA Racing crew stayed extremely busy during these pandemic times. The crew upgraded a Sea-Doo RXT-X 350 and a Sea-Doo RXP-X 350, both...

We Announce The Watercraft Journal’s 2020 Watercraft of The Year (Videos)

In crowning a Watercraft of The Year award, it's imperative to weigh each vehicle upon its individual merits, and to do so without leveraging...

Gallery: RIVA Racing ’21 Yamaha FX1800R & GP1800R Limited Editions

While we were on lockdown, RIVA Racing went all out and upgraded two of Yamaha SVHO-powered WaveRunners into their own specialized Limited Editions as...

Gallery: 2021 Yamaha EX Limited WaveRunner (Video)

With all of the news pouring out of Yamaha's watercraft division this year it might be easy to forget the newest addition to the...

Gallery: 2021 Yamaha VX Limited HO WaveRunner (Video)

Right out of the gate, it's important to note that for the past three consecutive years, the Yamaha VX Cruiser High Output (MSRP $12,049)...

Gallery: 2020 Kawasaki Ultra 310 Kspeed Stage One Kit Review (Video)

For some people too much power is barely enough. Despite the Kawasaki Ultra 310 being the most powerful JetSki to come out of 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...