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Get Hooked at Sea-Doo’s “Spark Some Fun” Demo Tour

Fu Manchu had it right. Give the people a taste for free and they come back paying for more. Of course, Sea-Doo isn't peddling...

Gallery: Annual Alligator Lake Ride

This event started three years ago when Howard Simmons (aka "Blue") of Blue Port Worx, a freestyle engine builder with JetManiac invited some friends...

IFWA Tour Round 2: Montalivet, France

Last weekend the world’s best freeride jet skiers gathered in France for Round 2 of the IFWA tour. It was the 10th anniversary for...

Eeling and Reeling: Getting Pulled By Big Striped Bass

Yesterday morning, my friend Rob and I towed our rigged up jet skis from Poquoson, Virginia to Kiptopeke State Park and dropped in at...

Sunday Double-Dip: Grand Lake & Lake Verret Loops

It had been the end of last summer since my last trip to the Atchafalaya Spillway and with the Spring rise commencing, I knew...

Gallery: Come Back to the Future With The First Aqua Moto Grand Prix

“Aqua Moto Grand Prix is a throwback race series dedicated to the heart and soul of personal watercraft racing origins.” states the official Aqua...

The Watercraft Journal Welcomes Kool PWC Stuff To Its Family of Advertisers

Here's a weird conundrum: recreational fishing is a huge, multi-multi-million dollar industry in the United States, yet the number of fishermen failing to use...

Gallery: Wavedaze 2014 Had Everything But Waves

This year Mother Nature was cooperative with beautiful, sunny and warm weather, possibly the warmest Wavedaze ever. Unfortunately, Mother Nature wasn't so kind with...

Gallery: Eric Francis’ KaruJet Race Journal (Updated)

DAY ONE: GETTING THERE It's possibly the most hardcore offshore race in the world. The Karujet is a four day race around Guadeloupe, the southernmost...

The Right Way Around: 2014 Yamaha Ski-Nz Melanoma Foundation Challenge

When I was diagnosed with melanoma in 2005, I, with a good friend, rode my ski 5,000km (3,100-plus miles) around New Zealand to raise...

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...