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Gallery: Wet Dreams Takes Their Jet Skis Ice Berging

Colorado is a winter enthusiast’s Mecca. People flock here from all over the world to enjoy every snow activity known to man. The locals...

Gallery: 6th Annual Sea-Doo Ultimate Owner’s Ride

There are ways to cultivate the owner experience. When Dodge first launched its open-roofed, V10-powered Viper roadster, marketers sought to make the purchasing experience...

Gallery: Long Beach Island, NJ to Ocean City, MD

The love of being on the open water and creating lasting friendships is what our yearly trip from Long Beach Island, NJ to Ocean...

Gallery: Tri-State River Rats’ Norris Lake Jamboree & Poker Run

What started out a few years ago as an easy, lazy, late season weekend morphed into the first Tri-State River Rats' Norris Lake Jamboree...

Grand Tour to Benefit Leader Dogs for the Blind: Unsalted Lake Stings PWC Riders

What is it about Lake Michigan that keeps us coming back? Every year, the waves seem to get bigger, and the landings get a...

Gallery: The Tri-State River Rats’ Ghost Ship Tour

About five years ago, a few of us decided to meet at Warsaw, Kentucky to ride for a day, upriver to Cincinnati. The midway...

Choctawhatchee River to Morrison Springs; A Return to Morrison Spring

Offering sugar white sands, crystal waters, and abundant sunshine is what makes the Florida panhandle a destination spot among summer vacationers. Arguably, and for...

North GoM Barrier Island Hop: 7 Islands, 3 States, 3 Skis, 1 Day and 170 Miles

(Disclaimer: This 170 mile open water ride is NOT for beginners! Do NOT try this ride alone or without carrying extra fuel and at...

Gallery: Central Florida Jet Riders’ Suwanee River Ride (Video)

Our first trip to the Suwanee started like many others – it was suggested that we go and, naturally, we did. After all, it’s...

(Video) NOLA PWC Fort Tour – Part II

This was not an easy ride and certainly not a route configuration I would have conceived. But am I glad I went? Absolutely! Thank...

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...