It is new Model Year season for Jet Skis, with big reveals for the 2024 Yamaha WaveRunner and 2024 Sea-Doo watercraft line-ups due in the next fortnight ahead of showroom arrivals next year. Here are the dates and times.
Yamaha has announced the biggest discounts across its WaveRunner line-up since the global pandemic. Up to $3000 off – combined – with a 3.99 per cent finance offer. For now, the deal is only available at this weekend’s Sydney Boat Show.
More than a decade in the making, Yamaha Australia has introduced a Jet Ski decked out for fishing. Meet the Yamaha FX HO JetFish, a rival to the Sea-Doo Fish Pro series.
The 2023 Kawasaki Ultra 160 LX and LX-S have arrived in Australia – unveiled at Sydney Boat Show this week ahead of customer deliveries. With price rises of almost $10,000, Kawasaki is aiming to compete with the Yamaha FX HO and Sea-Doo GTX 170.
It’s the most expensive Jet Ski we have ever tested. It’s called the Belassi Burrasca and while it has an Italian name – Burrasca is Italian for ‘storm’ – the craft is hand-made in Austria. When it went on sale in Europe in mid 2021 it was priced from 50,000 Euros, the equivalent of about $56,000 US dollars or about $82,000 Australian dollars. And while that is a power of money – and comfortably more than twice the price of the fastest Jet Skis from Sea-Doo, Yamaha and Kawasaki – it shares some technology and construction materials found in Formula One race cars.
After three years of zero discounts on Jet Skis amid severe stock shortages, there is a new round of sharp deals on certain Sea-Doo models, in response to Yamaha’s recent 3.99 per cent finance rate.
It’s the most expensive Jet Ski we have ever tested at Watercraft Zone. Meet the carbon-fibre, turbo-charged Belassi Burrasca.
Supercharged Jet Ski power has returned to Sydney Harbour – more than 20 years after Jet Skis were banned from the iconic waterway. The Sea-Doo Switch is a brand-new, Jet Ski-powered pontoon party boat. It is legal to operate on Sydney Harbour because it is approved for use as a boat, even though it has Jet Ski propulsion and Jet Ski handlebars instead of a steering wheel.
They’re two of the most affordable Jet Skis on the market, and they’re also among the most fun. In this back-to-back test we compare the Sea-Doo Spark Trixx versus the Yamaha Jet Blaster, including price, specs, performance, top speed and acceleration times.
Supercharged versus non-supercharged? It’s a question many Jet Ski riders begin with, even before they’ve set foot in a showroom or hit the water for a test ride. We performance test the supercharged Yamaha FX SVHO and the Yamaha FX HO back-to-back and run VBox numbers to see what the speed difference really is, including acceleration and top speed.
