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Jet Ski is the brand name of a personal watercraft (PWC) [1] manufactured by Kawasaki, [2] a Japanese company. [3] The term is often used generically to refer to any type of personal watercraft used mainly for recreation, and it is also used as a verb to describe the use of any type of PWC.
A watercraft on the Mekong River A personal watercraft Waveboat conversion. A personal watercraft (PWC), also called water scooter, is a primarily recreational watercraft that is designed to hold only a small number of occupants, who sit or stand on top of the craft, not within the craft as in a boat.
First produced that year, the WaveRunner (then called Marine Jet 500T) was the world's first saddle watercraft, a model which today dominates the market. In 1987, the handlebars mounted on an articulated arm, characteristic of hand watercraft, were replaced by a fixed handlebar on the WaveJammer 500 (Marine Jet 500S).
Kawasaki Jet Ski. In 1973, Kawasaki introduced a limited production of stand-up models as designed by the recognized inventor of jet skis, Clayton Jacobson II. [11] In 1976, Kawasaki then began mass production of the JS400-A. JS400s came with 400 cc two-stroke engines and hulls based upon the previous limited release models. It became the ...
Jet Ski is a Kawasaki personal watercraft. Jet Ski or jetski, may refer to: Personal watercraft (PWC), also called "jetskis" People. Lil Pump (born 2000), a US ...
Surfers Paradise Ski Gardens, Australia: Roland Hillier, United States: Ken White, United States: Larry Penacho, United States: Roland Hillier, United States United States: Barbara Cooper-Clack United States: Dany Duflot France: Liz Allan United States: Liz Allan United States: 1967 Sherbrooke, Canada: Tito Antuñano, Mexico: Alan Kempton,
By the mid 1960s Jacobson had quit his work in finance to pursue developing his jet ski concept full-time. The first prototype was up and running by 1965. This fixed-handlepole, stand-up design was constructed out of aluminum and powered by a West Bend two-stroke engine driving a Berkeley jet pump.
Tow-in surfing was pioneered by Laird Hamilton, Buzzy Kerbox, Dave Kalama, and others in the mid 1990s.A surfer is towed into a breaking wave by a partner driving a personal watercraft (PWC, commonly known by the brand name Jet Ski) or a helicopter with an attached tow-line.