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Gallery: Hydro-Turf JetJam Tour @ Lake Success, Porterville, CA

Now that the AWSA’s Hydro-Turf JetJam Racing Series Presented by Bud Light has made its swing out of Arizona and into its first of...

Gallery: P1 AquaX Pro & Amateur Racing, St. Petersburg, FL

Flat water, high speeds and mechanical gremlins on the loose; St. Petersburg, Florida may not have had the washing machine surf and head-high rollers...

Gallery: Hydro-Cross Nationals, Round 3; Knoxville, TN

Knoxville, Tennessee is known for being the home of the 1982 World’s Fair, a healthy population of Red Pandas, some of the finest museums...

Gallery: Cycle Shack North’s Yamaha Demo Day Recap 

Days like this are what dreams are made of! On June 2, 2019 Cycle Shack North in Conroe, Texas hosted a truly “Fun in...

Gallery: UIM-ABP Aquabike 2019 World Championships; Grand Prix of Portugal

Portimao, the 2019 European City of Sport and the largest town in the western Algarve hosted the opening round of the UIM-ABP Aquabike 2019...

Gallery: The “Bout Time” Barren River Lake, KY MTPWC Ride (Video)

We had only received our 2019 Sea-Doo Wake Pro 230 a couple of weeks earlier and frankly, hadn't had the time to fully break-in...

Gallery: Pro Watercross Tour Round 2; Daytona Beach, Florida

A few familiar, but perhaps unexpected, faces, a few big waves (ok, a lot), some parking pandemonium, one of the most welcoming, and fun,...

Gallery: Pro Watercross National Tour; Pensacola, FL Round 1

The kick-off of the Pro Watercross 2019 season is a wrap - and it was one for the books. Pensacola Beach - a perennial...

Gallery: Hydro-Turf Jet Jam Brings Racing Back to Nautical Beachfront Resort for Rounds 1-4 2019

At long last, PWC racing has returned to the Nautical Beachfront Resort in beautiful Lake Havasu City, AZ. There are very few venues that...

Gallery: 2019 P1 AquaX, Round 1; Daytona Beach, FL

The 2019 AquaX race season opened with a splash literally. Six-plus foot rollers that tossed around 800-pound runabouts like so many matchsticks kept 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...