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Freeride

Gallery: 2022 3rd Ann. RPM/Jet Jam Huntington Beach MotoSurf & ...

Ally Emig

May 18, 2022

After a one year hiatus, the 3rd annual RPM/Jet Jam Huntington Beach MotoSurf and FreeRide Exhibition returned for the first time since the pandemic, and it returned with a vengeance this past May 7th and ...

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Features

Gallery: An Overview of PWC Insurance and Why You Need ...

JD Brussels

May 17, 2022

You wouldn’t leave a car dealership without locking in an auto policy on your new car, so why leave your powersports dealer without a PWC policy? Prices on new watercraft are continuing to rise, and ...

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Watercraft

2022 Sea-Doo FishPro Trophy vs. 2022 Yamaha FX HO & ...

JD Brussels

May 13, 2022

Yamaha and Sea-Doo have taken radically different approaches to the flourishing PWC fishing market, but the results are the same: Both brands listened to their customers and responded with a variety of feature-filled offerings guaranteed ...

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Features

Engage Your Brain: A 4-Point Refresher in PWC Etiquette

JD Brussels

May 5, 2022

Speeding in the no wake zone, horsing around at the sandbar, doing donuts in the channel, and blasting music from that new 200-watt stereo…every rider has witnessed it! The PWC community is coming under an ...

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Pump

Gallery: Resealing Your Yamaha WaveRunner’s Transom Plate

Douglas Meyung

April 22, 2022

There isn’t a day much more exciting than the day you finally get to pick up your new Yamaha WaveRunner that you’ve been expecting for months. That excitement was joined with almost instant concerns. It ...

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Engine

Video: RIVA Racing Rolls Out 2 New Supercharger Impellers For ...

Kevin Shaw

April 12, 2022

Generating the levels of boost necessary to propel today’s race-level, hyper-competitive machines takes a degree of mechanical understanding and a level of precision that few speed shops can generate. Industry-leader RIVA Racing has proven its ...

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How-To

A Newbie’s Guide to Applying Registration Numbers

Julian Ramirez

April 8, 2022

Now that you have your watercraft registration number and date sticker, you’re required to display it on your vessel. And this is the same for all states. As mentioned before your state-issued eight-digit registration number, ...

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Racing

Gallery: Jet Jam Racing Series, Rounds 1 & 2 in ...

Ally Emig

April 4, 2022

It’s the moment racers and enthusiasts have waited for all winter: the first race of the 2022 season. Mechanics and privateers have spent months prepping machines to be top-notch competitive. Riders have spent hours training ...

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Features

Vicious Rumors & Vile Gossip: Sea-Doo’s 2nd Generation Spark Could ...

Kevin Shaw

April 1, 2022

Specific watercraft platforms come and go over the years; the trick is knowing how long a particular ski is going to last. Following the production cycles of original equipment (OE) manufacturers reveals how most of ...

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Interviews

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

DJ Middleton

March 29, 2022

One of the major limitations of riding PWCs in Australian rivers is whether or not they actually have any water in them. As the driest inhabited continent, many of the country’s major rivers are often ...

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