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The Rise of Darth Vader: 2020 Yamaha FX SVHO WaveRunner

In the course of a single year, the Yamaha FX SVHO WaveRunner has become the most successful full-sized 3-seater runabout in professional racing. Since...

Gallery: Brian Baldwin’s #502 Nat’l Championship-Winning 2019 Yamaha FX SVHO (Video)

Touring Brian Baldwin's Champion Powersports watercraft performance tuning and repair shop in Denver, North Carolina is a lot like looking inside of Brian's brain....

Gallery: ’19 Sea-Doo Spark Trixx vs. ’19 Yamaha WaveRunner EXR Shootout

While many personal watercraft enthusiasts are focused on the top-end models from Sea-Doo, Yamaha and Kawasaki, not everyone wants to start out on some...

The Total Package: 2020 Sea-Doo GTR 230 (Video)

For 2020, Sea-Doo looked to redesign its Recreation segment from the ground up, beginning with a blank canvas from which to start from. Certainly...

Practically Perfect: 2019 Yamaha FX Cruiser HO WaveRunner (Video)

For 2019 Yamaha found itself in a bit of a conundrum; the problem was, how to you improve upon a watercraft that is already...

A Machine For The Masses: 2019 Sea-Doo GTI Pro 130

It's no secret that the PWC rental market is huge. Most popular tourist lakes and waterways have some type of outlet on them that...

Like a Fine Wine: 2019 Yamaha SuperJet WaveRunner

In a world full of luxurious personal watercraft the Yamaha SuperJet is often touted as “old school cool” due to absence of a seat,...

Videos: 2018 Sea-Doo RXT-X 300 Long Term Review (Gallery)

To say we were excited to get our hands on one of the very first 2018 Sea-Doo RXT-X 300's would be an understatement. Sea-Doo...

Rough Water Luxury: 2019 Yamaha FX Cruiser SVHO WaveRunner

The 2019 Yamaha FX Cruiser SVHO, while always at the pinnacle of Yamaha’s premium luxury WaveRunner lineup starting at $16,199, is completely new this...

Gallery: RIVA Racing’s Limited Edition 2019 Yamaha FX1800R (Video)

It's interesting what a watercraft does when pushed well beyond the factory parameters. Runabouts that would normally track straight, corner with predictability and deliver...

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...