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Gallery: AJSA Southern Summer Series Wraps Up with US Open at Lake Tobesofkee

When the American Jet Sport Association (AJSA) announced that the final round of the Southern Summer Series would return to Sandy Beach Park at...

Farthing Racing Adds Hahn Iron Man Champ Brandon Warner to Team Roster

Top-level athletes know how to pick winners for their teams — and World Champion-turned-team-leader Dustin Farthing just proved it again. Farthing has tapped Brandon...

Daly Tops Season Championship Points Battle as AquaX Heads to St. Pete For Final Round

The Watercraft Journal opened up our email earlier today to find the official P1 AquaX results from Sheboygan and Clearwater, along with Championship points...

IJSBA World Finals Registration, Schedule & Latest Rule Changes, Plus Recap of Releases

It may be a bit more than a month before the 44th annual World Championship launches on Oct. 4 at Lake Havasu City, but...

Round 4 of P1 AquaX Hits Clearwater Beach This Weekend; Monster Energy Athlete Challenge Returns

Challenges have been issued, smack has been talked, and (most likely) wagers have been placed, and we’re just one day away from watching the...

A 6,000-Mile Solo PWC Journey To Support Brothers In Arms Foundation

There’s this thing called The Loop - or more specifically, “America’s Great Loop;” the Loop is somewhat of a pinnacle in boating circles -...

AquaX Headed Into Round 3 With Daly, Caldwell And Baldwin Atop Leaderboards

It’s hard to believe that we’re already nearing the end of July and hitting the midway mark of the race season that runs, in...

Gallery: WCJ Joins Sea-Doo Social Club Women’s Chapter In Chicago For First PWC Ride

You can’t get anywhere on a PWC by “twisting the throttle.” That's what happens when you put a V-twin saddle-hobo of 45 years on a...

Powerboat Racing Returns To Sheboygan Lakefront In August

SHEBOYGAN, WI – July 9, 2025 – The 3rd Annual Mercury Racing Midwest Challenge, produced by Powerboat P1, takes place August 8-10 and promises exhilarating...

Cycle Springs Hosts July 19-20 PWC Ride Supporting Tunnel 2 Towers Programs

They may not be words you particularly expect to see in the opening of an article in The Watercraft Journal, the phrase “They started...

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...