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Video: Last Ride of 2025 With Mark Forrest Adventures – Lake Erie

There’s something different about the final ride of the year. It’s quieter. Colder. A little nostalgic. And that’s exactly the tone Mark Forrest leans...

Before the Gifts, Plan the Trips — A New Kind of PWC Bucket List for 2026 (Part One)

Before we get publish our annual Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Jet Skiers tomorrow, we wanted to pause and do something a little different. Instead...

Video: Adventures Worth the Name With Dangerous Water Adventures

If your idea of a good ride is more than just glassy lakes and sunshine selfies, then Dangerous Water Adventures might be exactly what...

Autumn Rides Are Nature’s Color Show on the Water – Where’s Your Favorite?

Autumn has a way of slowing everything down — the light turns softer, the air turns sharper, and even the busiest lakes take a...

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...

Yamaha Variety Jet Trek is a PWC Adventure for a Cause

Earlier this month, one of the most exciting PWC events of the year took place — but this time, it wasn’t just the adrenaline...

Top Five Riding Spots around Brazil With AquaDan

Imagine slicing through Brazil's crystal-clear waters, the sun casting a golden glow as you navigate some of the most breathtaking jet skiing spots on...

Video: Racking Up The Miles at The 2022 Greenhulk Fall Mudbug

Admittedly I don’t get to attend very many events or join any group rides these days. The frenetic schedule that I keep has me...

Gallery: An Epic 7 Day, 950-Mile PWC Outback Adventure Ride

One of the major limitations of riding PWCs in Australian rivers is whether or not they actually have any water in them. As the...

Gallery: Snakebit on The Blind River in St. James Parish, LA

Somehow the family and I managed to navigate 2020 relatively unscathed. Sure, the older kids' school year was completely borked, leaving them with 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...