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NEWS (ENG)

Jet Skier & PW has been the favourite PW magazine for 20 years. As a result of its longevity, JS&PW has a very close relationship with the industry and the skiers themselves. The magazine is packed full of news, ski tests, event coverage, places to ride, information for beginners, race reports, freestyle, wakeboarding, PW club news and fantastic competitions. JS&PW is available throughout major newsagents and at clubs, dealers and launch sites across Britain. With a highly respected world-wide reputation, it is one of the leading magazines in the personal watercraft community, expressing the thrill and lifestyle of the sport. Lately the magazine has launched its digital version and there will be 6 issues per year at a reasonable cost. Log in to jetskier.co.uk to find more information about the subscription to Jetskier.

IJSBA Pro Runabout Open World Champion of 2009, Sam Harvey has already launched his own web site. By logging in to www.samharveyracing.co.nz the reader will get informed about his racing activities and results as well as the services of Woodbine Racing Team which is based in Auckland.

The most talked about four-stroke X-2 (equipped with a 15F engine) that has been prepared by Sato Engineering actually hit the water (read another story on it under the Features Section). The Speedmagic test team put it on the water and the first impression, ok, was good but we have not been able to obtain any more news from the company. Anyways, it was a very interesting project and we are glad that someone actually made it happen.

Are we going to see one made for Ultra? We know for sure that R&D does not plan to make one for the time being. Bill Chapin of R&D had worked very hard and he had spent countless hours of testing in order to develop certain twin impeller packages that go along with R&D’s ECU and other accessories. The point is that he has valuable help from Yamaha in order to develop all these performance parts. On the other hand as far as we have been informed Kawasaki has not invested on such cooperation. Therefore, most probably we are not going to see such a package developed for Kawasaki unless R&D or someone else has a reason to do it.

We have published in the past some exceptional graphics that were shown on Kanamori’s SX-R. Those ones were made by a Japanese company. This time we saw the illustrated pwc graphics on a Japanese web site, Avanti and we strongly believe that they very similar to the ones we had seen in the past. The particular vinyl graphics are awesome. It’s a very nice job and we hope that we will see more of those interesting designs.

Bruce Stjernstrom was actually one of the guys who were involved in the formation of IJSBA (when it became International Association). When I was introduced to him he was working for Kawasaki, KMC and every year he attend it the World Finals. This year he appeared dressed up in Monster Energy gear rather than the usual Team Green apparel. He informed me that he was recently change plans in to his career and now he is working for Monster Energy as Vice President of Sports Marketing. Monster Energy appeared at the World Finals in 2006 and we hope that it will keep supporting the personal watercraft racing scene.

Blowsion is well known for its dedication on designing special parts for Ski’s and we have seen that the company actually produces so many small, nice and tricky parts. We were wondering how did the company managed to produced all these parts by CNC machining while keeping the cost at a reasonable level. The answer came straight to us by its owner John Dady. “For aluminum manufacturing we do all of our CNC machining with about 10 different machine shops. Most are in our local area. We do only the product design in-house. On that same note all of our anodizing is done locally as well with three different anodizing vendors. Because of the hazardous chemicals required in anodizing it is very difficult to do this kind of work unless a business is specialized in only that process. The Kawasaki Green is the most challenging color we offer simply because it is a very difficult shade of green to anodize. We are lucky in that the company that does our Green color also does all of the aluminum baseball bats for www.Deemarini.com so we share the costs of formulating this special green with them.”