We spend countless hours talking about horsepower, acceleration, handling and performance upgrades. We invest in ...

When we talk about helping a personal watercraft engine breathe, the conversation usually heads straight for air intakes, ...

For many personal watercraft owners, the end of riding season means flushing the engine, stabilizing the fuel, checking the ...

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Editor-in-Chief – [email protected] Kevin Shaw is the PWC industry's most recognized journalist. After a short hiatus after helming Personal Watercraft Illustrated, he launched The Watercraft Journal ...

Brand strategy is the name of the game for Sea-Doo in 2027 and the moves make far greater sense when viewed at a 30,000-foot altitude. Simultaneously, there are changes made here that will speak to a ...

It’s times like these that we at The Watercraft Journal live for. Despite having what many would believe to be all of possible leaked details and inside knowledge prior to the 2022 reveal, Kawasaki ...

The 2026 Short Block Technologies World Finals are still headed for Lake Havasu City, but the venue will have a new name when the world’s largest PWC racing event arrives in October. IJSBA announced ...

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Let’s just begin with this: None of us guessed this one right. And frankly, there’s gonna be some seriously obnoxious gloating online. Nevertheless, it was an inevitability that once Yamaha released a ...

The year was 1973. The average family income in the United States was just under $13,000 a year, gasoline was about $0.40 cents a gallon, and Kawasaki’s newly minted R&D Department in Southern ...

It’s been a good while since The Watercraft Journal has published an episode of “Vicious Rumors & Vile Gossip” and that’s because frankly, we haven’t encountered much in the way of verifiable leaked ...