238 Miles of BRUTAL White Capped Seas w/ The Great Lakes Ski Riders: The Watercraft Journal Ep. 127
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- The Watercraft Journal was invited to ride with the Great Lakes Ski Riders on an EPIC 238-mile all-day journey crossing over THREE LAKES, battling white caps, super polluted rivers, and keeping our supercharged Kawasaki Ultra 310LX pinned at wide open to keep pace with some super fast skis.
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It was our pleasure to host you!! It was a ride these guys will remember forever ! I really would have loved to ride with you guys!! Hope to see you again on the water.
Blue water bridge, I live on the Canadian side of that bridge, I live right on the St. Clair river cool to see ya's had a good time. Gotta love the great lakes.
Love this!
Maybe the Great Lake Riders would be willing to come out near Sault Ste Marie and do Lake Michigan, Huron, and Superior. Personally, it's my favorite ride🎿
Joe knows how to have fun! A blast everytime he comes to Florida
Excellent footage and commentary Kevin 👌that’s what a great day out on the skies is about, please keep up the great work.
Glad you enjoyed it
Very well put together, Kevin. What a great group! Having people who KNOW where they are going, and have a plan when things go wrong, is key for those kind of trips. It’s like you need a guide, a guy (or gal) or two who know how to turn wrenches, and someone to talk sense into us to keep us out of trouble lol. Not many groups can pull this off.
What an amazing journey. Nice to see you in Canadian waters. You should do the 1000 Island Tour
Now that’s a great day’s riding! Thanks for sharing.
Rode with these guys last summer around crystal bay and the Detroit river. Good time!
It was a pleasure to ride with you Kevin. Thank you for the friendly words and aggressive riding! We will have to do it again, take me up on my offer for Cedar point and Islands ride sometime, some good riders over there too. Sorry for getting frustrated but I TOLD YOU SO!!😂😂😅
LOL I think I learned my lesson. Some sights are not worth seeing. -K
That was awesome!!! Thanks for bringing us with you. That looked like fun.
It was!
Love the video, Kevin. It’s nice to see the north get some attention. I grew up on Lake Erie and learn to ride Annette back in 97. I never took this ride but my brother who still lives up there has been bugging me to do a PWC camping trip up that way. I hope to make time to do so!
Frigging awesome. Very interesting ride and history. Hate you lost the footage and gopros. Fuel cell and rack are the real deal. Glad all made it back safely.
I aim to go on rides and do events like this someday. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
Impressing how much the Ultra Platform is. 👍
Ultra is the king of chop (which is most busy lakes on any Saturday). I didn't see much chop in this video though
Yr kit preformed rock solid 💪great vid
It absolutely did!
My backyard!
I liked this channels Kevin Shaw ' The Great Ski Rider's ' especially JetSki RXP - 300 Sea Doo , JetSki SVHO GP1800 Yamaha 🌊 runner and also JetSki Kawasaki Ultra LX- 5 310 .
Also in Michigan and love riding the Great Lakes. Most beautiful place in the country during the summer. Looking to drive down to Mudbug in a few weeks to participate in my first ride with a group of fellow enthusiasts. I just bought a Go Pro and a floaty (as Kevin recommended the floaty in a prior video.) I also took his advice on cheap mounts and decided to go with a RAM mount instead of clip or suction.
Very cool to see an amazing ride,
Honestly I did not think such long distance riding was possible on a pwc!
Thats my local! Cool to see you take a trip up the river. Me and my fiancé are on lake st clair almost every weekend on our 96 polaris SLTX 1050. Im in the market for an ultra 310 based on some of your video reviews, so this video is perfect for me
Nice ride! Sir
Nice video. Was really surprised to see that the water wasn’t chocolate brown the whole ride!
You and me both!
Come back up and do the Lake Erie islands in summer!
Interesting. Thanks.
Great video. 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it
You're in my neck of the woods! I ride Lake Huron, St. Claire and Erie all the time. Too bad it wasn't the right time of year. July and August is best. Like someone said, you need to try the 1000 Islands between New York and Ontario. Some of the best water in the world.
Ah, no way! I wish I knew you were coming to Amherstburg/Windsor, I ride past Boblo Island all the time! ("All the time" as if I didn't just buy my first ski this year). Hope you enjoyed the ride!
Up until a couple years ago they had the drop tower still standing on the island. They took it down though since it was deteriorating too much. I am from Windsor so I am in the Detroit River/Lake Erie :)
Wow, there's no way I could have done a ride like this. Props to everyone, looks like a lot of fun, and gives me a good idea of more places I can go in the area. Thanks!
Also, Lake Huron is absolutely gorgeous! You should see if you can ever get up to Tobemory, Flower Pot Island, and Manituilan Island. The water is even clearer/bluer than the area you were in
Really nice ride.I have a long fishing line leader I clip onto my GoPro mouth and And attach the other end to something under the hood so my gopros won't get lost
Wouldn’t a Kawasaki ultra lx 160 or 300 be WAY better to ride in the chop?
What life jacket is that you have on?
Wondering what the absolute best PWC every made is/was for handling rough seas
The 1993 Yamaha Wave Blaster
Hi there.
So ridding that long distance would you rather choose Yamaha FX over Kawasaki ?
Depends
The GoPro float will not float if it has ANY additional weight like a camera mount. This is 100% unacceptable. So wish someone would create a 3rd party solution.
Looked like a great ride with great folks.
See thats what I'm thinking, I wanna go with the kawasaki. But the seedoo has that option to clear out the pump right. Kinda scared my rides will be ruined without it.
IDF wouldn't have helped with this at all.
"8 inch plastic" what you using to measure that 😂
Jeez kevin you’re keeping go pro in business alone 😅
Nah, just Amazon’s refurbished business. I buy used ones.
@@watercraftjournal nice good move
I am not surprised to hear about the fuel rack on the Yamaha going down. I have been hearing about how poorly designed they are for the outrageous amount of money you have to pay for them.
It was a bummer to see all that money sink to the bottom.
To be fair I had the same overpriced rack on my FX….it didn’t budge. It was the guys first time using it I believe.
I bet you burned 60-70 gallons on that fun trip.
Probably more!
Just a fl redneck invention i use in the rough : I stuff as many beach towels in the front storage bin to nearly stop any major bouncing of expensive items. ask me how i know..
I purposely bought the bag I had because it was heavily padded, and had a tightly wound dry bag tied to it. It couldn't keep up against the incessant pounding and water intrusion. -K