America’s Motor Sports is still offering several great deals on Sea-Doo PWC and Sea-Doo accessories. A few different Ready to Ride Sales Events come to a close July 31st . Purchase a 2017 Sea-Doo Spark starting at $4,999 with a built in rebate of $300. Delivery charge, taxes, and registration fees are not included. Financing as low as 1.9% for 36 months with Citibank is available with approved credit. This offer excludes Florida, although prospective buyers can contact a Florida dealer for their latest Sea-Doo offers.

If the above offer doesn’t pique your interest, check out this one. Buy two Sea-Doo Sparks and a trailer starting at $179 a month. The eligible trailer is a new and unused 2018 T7JD, with pricing starting at just under $1,400. Get financing for as low as 8.5APR for 84 months.

Another Ready to Ride offer is one that is good for up to a $500 rebate on select 2018 and prior years’ Sea-Doo models. All of the PWC are brand new and unused so get ready to ride a fresh ski! The rebate amount is dependent upon which model of ski is purchased. There are many to choose from. This offer is valid while supplies last.

All Ready to Ride Sales Event offers include the BRP B.E.S.T. limited warranty. For more details and fine print, head over to America’s Motor Sports website or hit one of their three locations in Tennessee. Sea-Doo reminds us to always wear appropriate protective clothing, including a Coast Guard-approved life jacket. Always ride safely and responsibly. Remember that riding and alcohol/drugs don’t mix.

Heavy storms have been pounding the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern parts of the United States. As a result, many parts of the eastern United States have been seeing some historic flooding.

With all of the storms keeping many folks indoors and off the water, now is a perfect time to make sure your watercraft is in tip top shape for the remainder of this summer with some new SBT products.

Or perhaps your existing riding gear has been taking a nasty pounding this season so why not make some upgrades to your arsenal with new gear or apparel from the watercraft superstore.

Whether you need to do a quick oil change on your watercraft, swap out a new prop, or you want a new life vest and other gear, the folks at SBT and watercraft superstore are sure to have nearly anything you are looking for.

Maybe you are in need of a birthday or special occasion gift for a loved one or friend but aren’t quite sure what they need. No worries, you can always pick up a gift card for that special person in your life.

While you’re at it, be sure to take advantage of free shipping on orders over $75 at watercraftsuperstore.net.

Oh, all the wonderful things you’ll find on Craigslist these days. We recently discovered this unusual bit of nostalgia from Northern Ohio; a real-deal 1987 Sea-Doo “test market” runabout that later was modded by Decker Racing. The “test market” 1987 “5801” model was the unit that heralded Sea-Doo’s return to the marketplace. A direct response to Kawasaki’s standup and Yamaha’s WaveRunner, the Sea-Doo was designed for the emerging market, and debuted in 1987 – eventually reaching a wider market in 1988.

Although drastically different from Sea-Doo’s original 1968 unit, the 5801 featured several key design features that would carry on for literally decades, particularly the hull and deck configuration, its 20-degree, semi-V hull, how “the seat extended all the way back to allow for two passengers, and the handlebars were padded and included updated grips. Still, there were similarities to the original, including the wide footwells and the positive curve on the bow,” according to an article written by Joel Johnson.

He continued, “The 5801 was powered by a water-cooled 581cc Rotax in-line twin connected directly to the pump by a driveshaft and designed specifically for the marine environment. That engine pumped out three times the horsepower of the original, and the horsepower was transferred to the water through an updated axial-flow pump.”

This particular unit was one of the original #5801 Sea-Doos sold to a limited 400 buyers. Here’s what the seller had to say: “This is one of the 400 test market boats made in 1987 model # 5801 with a 581cc Rotax engine.
I purchase this boat new from Ed Babbit of Babbit’s Motorsport in Muskegon, Michigan. The history of
the test market boats can be found online at parkeryamaha.com under Roots / The Birth of a Seadoo.
In 1990, I had Decker Racing in Marshfield, Wi. modify the engine to include a custom tuned pipe, intake manifold with twin carbs, and dyno tested tuned ports. Boat needs a new starter, battery, carb and fuel system service.” This rare, historic Sea-Doo can be yours for $1,400.

Earlier this year The Watercraft Journal was on the scene at the 2018 Watercraft Superstore Skyway Ski Show to record some behind-the-scenes action.

As always, this show is certainly a blast for everyone involved and this year even the kids got to benefit. For 2018, Watercraft Superstore donated $5000 of the Skyway Ski Show proceeds to the children’s charity Clothes to Kids.

Clothes to Kids is a non-profit entity located in the Clearwater, Florida area that organizes the collection of clothing donations for children in need of clean clothing to wear to school. Their mission is to provide new and quality used clothing to low-income or in crisis school-age children, free of charge.

In 2017 alone, the Clothes to Kids organization provided more than 10,000 school wardrobes to kids in Pinellas County. With their continuing expansion as well as with helpful donations such as proceeds from Watercraft Superstore-hosted Skyway Ski Show, more kids will be able to receive the clothing they desperately need.

According to the Clothes to Kids organization, research shows that children who go to school wearing clothes that make them feel like they fit in perform better academically than those who don’t.

We are certainly glad to see those in the personal watercraft community come together for good causes such as this. For more information, check out the Pickren outreach article here.

It’s not often when we get to cross-share an article between Shaw Group Media’s two magazines, The Watercraft Journal and Mopar Connection Magazine. Albeit two very disconnected industries, and we being the publishers of two magazines servicing very niche enthusiast groups, the intersection of Dodge/Plymouth muscle cars and personal watercraft is a rare one indeed. Yet, as fate would have it, here we are.

Coming from the tail end of the annual geek-tastic San Diego Comic-Con, many outlets took the opportunity to cross-promote the beginning of Discovery Channel’s absurdly popular “Shark Week” broadcasting event, including Dodge. As part of their summer sales event and other promotions, Dodge fired out this silly “asphalt summer” commercial featuring a bunch of beach-goers going about typical summertime festivities in a rather large parking lot just mere feet from the sand.

One such enthusiast is shown ripping a Chili Pepper red Sea-Doo Spark around in a collapsible swimming pool as a 707-horsepower, 204-mph Dodge Charger Hellcat pulls up with a surfboard rack on the roof. Yes, you read that right. That 4-door Charger is packing over seven hundred horsepower and has been clocked at a blistering 204 miles per hour. Not too shabby for a family sedan, huh?

Of course, the parking lot is filled with all sorts of other high-horsepower Mopar muscle, including nearly every offering from the SRT (Street Racing Technology) lineup of performance machines. It’s a fun way to start your Monday, so take a peek below (even if you’re a Ford guy):

The fall preview edition of V Magazine has been sweeping the newsstands and for good reason. It features world renowned fashion model Gigi Hadid aboard a custom Fendi wrapped Sea-Doo RXP-X 300.

To help V Magazine pull off this special edition article, Look Marketing came into the picture to do some public relations and logistics work for its client Sea-Doo watercraft. After all was said and done, over 75 million people from around the world were exposed to the amazing Sea-Doo watercraft.

Look Marketing did some extensive behind the scenes work to help make this possible. They explain their full involvement in these excerpts below from their press release:

We helped pick the right Sea-Doo model for the look the creative team wanted. We worked with a local Miami vehicle wrap company to deliver the unit and help with the Fendi wrap graphics. For the actual shoot, we made the Sea-Doo portion as turn-key as possible. It also helped that Gigi Hadid was a genuinely nice person, with a great work ethic, and admitted adrenaline junky. She listened intently to our instruction on-set and did indeed ride aggressively for a full four hour shoot.

To date (mid-July) the effort has generated over 456 million impressions from being featured in 38 different outlets. The biggest hits have come from Gigi’s own social media posting. Again we helped Hadid and photographer Mario Sorrenti have a great experience and they shared their appreciation with more posts. #lookatus