page_title: Personal watercraft
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: Personal watercraft / Sports
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Rennszene anlässlich der Deutschen Meisterschaft 2007 im Jetboot-Rennen auf der Elbe vor Krautsand. English: Racing scene at the German Championship 2007 in jetski-race on the Elbe, Krautsand. Français&#160;: Scène de course de Jetski issue du championnat allemand de jetski de 2007 sur l'Elbe, à Krautsand.
context_page_description: A personal watercraft, also called water scooter, and comically a boatercycle, is a recreational watercraft that the rider sits or stands on, rather than inside of, as in a boat. PWCs have two style categories, first and most popular being a runabout or "sit down" where the rider uses the watercraft mainly sitting down, and the watercraft typically holds two or more people. The second style is a "stand-up", where the rider uses the watercraft standing up. The stand-up styles are built for one rider and are used more for doing tricks, racing, and use in competitions. Both styles have an inboard engine driving a pump-jet that has a screw-shaped impeller to create thrust for propulsion and steering. Most are designed for two or three people, though four-passenger models exist. Many of today's models are built for more extended use and have the fuel capacity to make long cruises, in some cases even beyond 100 miles.
  Personal watercraft are often referred by the trademarked brand names Jet Ski, WaveRunner, or Sea-Doo.
context_section_description: PWC racing competitions take place around the world. 
  P1 AquaX is a personal watercraft racing series, first launched in the UK in May 2011 by London-based sports promoter Powerboat P1. The series attracted a mix of new and current racers to a new type of racing and in 2013, P1 rolled out a second series in the USA. Such was the uptake that the original format needed revising to cope with the influx of new riders and by the end of 2015 over 400 riders from 11 countries had registered to compete in an AquaX event.
caption: Stand-up PWC racing scene. (Tyson Collins pictured)
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