The HydroBlade looks like a stripped-back stand-up jet ski from above the water. Below the waterline, though, it has a pair of electric propulsion units good for 16 kW peak output, and a hydrofoil ...

Why am I telling you this story, you ask? Because Kawasaki has an all-new stand-up Jet Ski model, and even I think it'd be a bad idea to hand me the keys to it. Seriously, I'd probably die.

Personal watercraft have a moniker that dates to the 1960s, when Clayton Jacobsen II took his original Jet Ski design to Bombardier for mass production. Early sales ended up being sluggish, resulting ...

The inventor of the personal watercraft was an unassuming Southern California man who enjoyed the thrill of desert dirt ...

I went stand-up paddleboarding on Lady Bird Lake last weekend. The weather was great. Lots of people. But I also saw two large boats with big engines trolling around at low speeds. They weren’t tours ...