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Companies

The makers, performance shops and race teams behind the racing, each on the record for its trade when independent documents show it at work: patents, trademark records, rule books, result sheets and period magazines. 42 companies are here so far, with 258 sourced facts.

The BaddJet shop sells the brand of, or lists as a vendor, 10 of these companies. Each of their pages says so at the top, links to no product and follows the same rules as the rest. How companies are chosen is at the foot of the page.

The trade, year by year

Each bar counts the companies a held document shows at work that year: a product on sale, a filing, an entry on a race sheet. Pick a year to see which, and what. A gap means no document has been read for that year, not that the trade stopped.

  1. 1980
  2. 1981
  3. 1982
  4. 1983
  5. 1984
  6. 1985
  7. 1986
  8. 1987
  9. 1988
  10. 1989
  11. 1990
  12. 1991
  13. 1992
  14. 1993
  15. 1994
  16. 1995
  17. 1996
  18. 1997
  19. 1998
  20. 1999
  21. 2000
  22. 2001
  23. 2002
  24. 2003
  25. 2004
  26. 2005
  27. 2006
  28. 2007
  29. 2008
  30. 2009
  31. 2010
  32. 2011
  33. 2012
  34. 2013
  35. 2014
  36. 2015
  37. 2016
  38. 2017
  39. 2018
  40. 2019
  41. 2020
  42. 2021
  43. 2022
  44. 2023
  45. 2024
  46. 2025
  47. 2026

1980

2 companies, 3 documents.

Later: 1981 · Back to the years

1981

1 company, 2 documents.

Earlier: 1980 · Later: 1982 · Back to the years

1982

2 companies, 3 documents.

Earlier: 1981 · Later: 1983 · Back to the years

1983

2 companies, 3 documents.

Earlier: 1982 · Later: 1986 · Back to the years

1986

1 company, 1 document.

Earlier: 1983 · Later: 1987 · Back to the years

1987

4 companies, 6 documents.

  • Jetco · patents and trademarks in 1987.
  • Ocean Pro · patents and trademarks in 1987.
  • Solas · patents and trademarks in 1987.
  • Team Butch · patents and trademarks in 1987.

Earlier: 1986 · Later: 1988 · Back to the years

1988

6 companies, 7 documents.

Earlier: 1987 · Later: 1989 · Back to the years

1989

4 companies, 9 documents.

Earlier: 1988 · Later: 1990 · Back to the years

1990

4 companies, 8 documents.

Earlier: 1989 · Later: 1991 · Back to the years

1991

2 companies, 3 documents.

  • Kerker · patents and trademarks in 1991.
  • Ocean Pro · patents and trademarks in 1991.

Earlier: 1990 · Later: 1992 · Back to the years

1992

3 companies, 6 documents.

Earlier: 1991 · Later: 1993 · Back to the years

1993

3 companies, 7 documents.

Earlier: 1992 · Later: 1994 · Back to the years

1994

3 companies, 6 documents.

Earlier: 1993 · Later: 1995 · Back to the years

1995

3 companies, 6 documents.

Earlier: 1994 · Later: 1996 · Back to the years

1996

18 companies, 21 documents.

Earlier: 1995 · Later: 1997 · Back to the years

1997

13 companies, 9 documents.

Earlier: 1996 · Later: 1998 · Back to the years

1998

10 companies, 12 documents.

Earlier: 1997 · Later: 2000 · Back to the years

2000

4 companies, 6 documents.

Earlier: 1998 · Later: 2001 · Back to the years

2001

3 companies, 6 documents.

  • Group K · the business on record in 2001.
  • RIVA Racing · products; on the race sheets in 2001.
  • Solas · products in 2001.

Earlier: 2000 · Later: 2003 · Back to the years

2003

2 companies, 3 documents.

Earlier: 2001 · Later: 2004 · Back to the years

2004

6 companies, 8 documents.

Earlier: 2003 · Later: 2005 · Back to the years

2005

6 companies, 7 documents.

Earlier: 2004 · Later: 2006 · Back to the years

2006

3 companies, 7 documents.

  • RIVA Racing · the business on record in 2006.
  • Skat-Trak · the business on record in 2006.
  • Solas · patents and trademarks in 2006.

Earlier: 2005 · Later: 2007 · Back to the years

2007

2 companies, 3 documents.

Earlier: 2006 · Later: 2008 · Back to the years

2008

2 companies, 8 documents.

Earlier: 2007 · Later: 2009 · Back to the years

2009

3 companies, 2 documents.

Earlier: 2008 · Later: 2010 · Back to the years

2010

6 companies, 8 documents.

Earlier: 2009 · Later: 2011 · Back to the years

2011

5 companies, 5 documents.

Earlier: 2010 · Later: 2012 · Back to the years

2012

12 companies, 17 documents.

Earlier: 2011 · Later: 2013 · Back to the years

2013

7 companies, 16 documents.

Earlier: 2012 · Later: 2014 · Back to the years

2014

8 companies, 15 documents.

Earlier: 2013 · Later: 2015 · Back to the years

2015

9 companies, 17 documents.

Earlier: 2014 · Later: 2016 · Back to the years

2016

7 companies, 12 documents.

Earlier: 2015 · Later: 2017 · Back to the years

2017

6 companies, 18 documents.

Earlier: 2016 · Later: 2018 · Back to the years

2018

8 companies, 19 documents.

Earlier: 2017 · Later: 2019 · Back to the years

2019

4 companies, 12 documents.

Earlier: 2018 · Later: 2020 · Back to the years

2020

4 companies, 12 documents.

Earlier: 2019 · Later: 2021 · Back to the years

2021

3 companies, 5 documents.

  • Coffman's · patents and trademarks in 2021.
  • Hydro-Turf · patents and trademarks in 2021.
  • Jettrim · the business on record in 2021.

Earlier: 2020 · Later: 2022 · Back to the years

2022

2 companies, 2 documents.

Earlier: 2021 · Later: 2023 · Back to the years

2023

6 companies, 11 documents.

Earlier: 2022 · Later: 2024 · Back to the years

2024

15 companies, 25 documents.

Earlier: 2023 · Later: 2025 · Back to the years

2025

3 companies, 7 documents.

Earlier: 2024 · Later: 2026 · Back to the years

2026

1 company, 1 document.

Earlier: 2025 · Back to the years

What they made, part by part

Where each part sits on a ski, the history chapter that writes it up, and the companies here that a document shows making it.

On the engine

In the water path

Under and on top

Around the parts

  1. Shops and their teams
  2. Pipes and engine parts
  3. Pumps, plates and registers
  4. Hulls, rules and closures
The parts the four aftermarket chapters cover, grouped by where they sit. Under each part, the companies this archive has a page for whose documents show them making it: a list of these pages, not of every maker in the trade. A map of the chapters, not a drawing of any machine, and not every part a ski has. The shops and teams box lists companies by what kind they are, not by a part. Under the boxes, the companies that make a part with no box of its own, and any maker this map files under no part.

Every company on the record (42)

Makers (32)

  • ADA Racing

    Maker · engine parts · documented 1996 to 2004

    Maker of a billet cylinder head with replaceable domes that Personal Watercraft Illustrated fitted and tested on a Kawasaki Ultra 150 in 2000; its own page places it in Chandler, Arizona.

  • Blowsion

    Maker · other parts · documented 2010 to 2025 · the shop sells this brand

    A stand-up parts and paint company whose name heads the association's results of the 2017 and 2018 World Finals and the titles of two events in 2015 and 2016.

  • Buckshot Racing

    Maker, Performance shop · engine parts · documented 1996 to 2000

    Carburettor kit maker with a shop in Brea, named by Personal Watercraft Illustrated in 1996 among aftermarket carburettor makers; the magazine tested its kit on a Kawasaki Ultra 150 in 2000.

  • Bullett Racing

    Maker · hulls · documented 2012 to 2024

    A Lake Havasu City hull maker whose V6 the IJSBA homologated in 2024, and whose variant of the Kawasaki X2 a rider rode at the 2013 World Finals.

  • Coffman's

    Maker · exhaust pipes · documented 1982 to 2021

    Exhaust business: a Jet Ski pipe classified under the name Coffman's ran in Cycle News in 1982 and 1983; the magazine named Gary Coffman owner of Coffman's Exhaust Systems in 1992 (read as one business).

  • Eric Malone Enterprises

    Maker · documented in 2007

    Freestyle craft maker under whose name Eric Malone made his machines, per a 2022 newspaper; its own site advertised 800 and 1000 cc models in 2007, and a 2017 directory prints a freestyle association in its care.

  • Factory Pipe

    Maker · exhaust pipes · documented 1980 to 2012 · the shop sells this brand

    Exhaust maker of Ukiah, California, in print from 1980; Bombardier's 1998 racing handbook lists it for exhaust systems, and its owner registered the FACTORY PIPE mark and was granted a water-injection patent.

  • Fast Powersports

    Maker · hulls · documented in 2024

    A Phoenix, Arizona hull maker, the first applicant to the IJSBA's aftermarket hull homologation in 2024, whose GP1R and GP16 completed it that September.

  • Hot Products

    Maker · engine parts · documented 1996 to 2004

    San Diego racing parts firm on the IJSBA's associate member lists, whose name is in the titles of the World Finals of 2012 and 2013 and of the Havasu endurance race of 2016, 2017 and 2020.

  • Hydro-Turf

    Maker · deck mats, other parts · documented 1990 to 2024 · the shop sells this brand

    A maker of foam traction mats and seat covers for watercraft, whose HYDRO-TURF mat mark was filed in 1990 and whose name is printed on race sheets and in a national tour's title.

  • Jet Dynamics

    Maker · intake grates, ride plates · documented 1992 to 1997 · the shop sells this brand

    An Idaho partnership whose register record names intake grates and ride plates, and whose founders' patent filings of 1991 to 1994 cover a shaft-shielding toploader and grate designs.

  • Jetco

    Maker, Performance shop · exhaust pipes · documented 1987 to 1988

    Personal watercraft dealer and aftermarket maker in Cycle News's description of 1988, whose short-body pipes another pipe maker's 1990 flyer lists among those its silencer fits.

  • Jettrim

    Maker · other parts · documented 1996 to 2021 · a shop vendor

    A maker of seat covers for personal watercraft, printed as a sponsor on World Finals results of 2010 to 2012 and announced as title sponsor of the 2021 World Finals.

  • Kerker

    Maker · exhaust pipes · documented 1980 to 1993

    Exhaust name on watercraft pipes in another pipe maker's 1990 flyer; SuperTrapp Industries registered KERKER in 1993 with marine exhaust goods, and Cycle News says it bought the Kerker company.

  • Kommander Industries

    Maker, Performance shop · hulls · documented 2010 to 2024

    An Arizona business described in 2016 and 2020 as a Yamaha dealer and race builder, whose GP1 hull the IJSBA homologated in 2024, printed as a riders' sponsor on World Finals results from 2010.

  • Krash Industries

    Maker · hulls, engine parts · documented 2017 to 2018

    An Australian maker of freeride and freestyle hulls and complete skis, which by its own account it builds around its KV997 two-stroke engine, reported in the trade press from 2017.

  • Lee Stone Products

    Maker · hulls · documented 2012 to 2024

    The business behind the Revolver freestyle watercraft, printed as a riders' sponsor at the 2012 to 2014 World Finals and named in 2024 as the company whose turnkey Revolver S1 was to carry new powertrains.

  • Novi Performance Products

    Maker · engine parts · documented 1996 to 2004

    A Fletcher, North Carolina, maker of race parts and flame arresters, listed in Bombardier's Sea-Doo racing handbooks of 1996 and 1998.

  • Ocean Pro

    Maker · exhaust pipes, engine parts, ride plates · documented 1987 to 1998

    A personal watercraft parts name, for goods from exhaust kits to ride plates and flame arrestors, that its owner applied to register in 1987; Bombardier's 1998 handbook lists an Ocean Pro Engineering.

  • Pro Watercraft

    Maker · hulls, ride plates, other parts · documented 2015 to 2024

    Hull and handling-parts maker that applied in 2024 for IJSBA homologation of its Pro Force 3 unit; the archive reads it as the Pro Watercraft Racing shop seen in Lake Havasu City in 2015 with molds for ride plates

  • Pro-Tec Performance

    Maker, Performance shop · exhaust pipes, engine parts, intake grates, ride plates · documented 1996 to 1997

    Murrieta, California, SuperJet parts maker and shop, tested by Personal Watercraft Illustrated in 1997; the IJSBA's 2010 rule book names Pro-Tec Performance as maker of a girdle system.

  • R&D Racing Products

    Maker · intake grates, ride plates, engine parts, other parts · documented 1993 to 2018

    A maker of foiled intake grates, flame arresters and bolt-on parts, in the US trademark register as a corporation from 1995, which said in 2018 that it would close.

  • Rickter-RRP

    Maker · hulls, other parts · documented 2012 to 2023

    A maker of Rickter freestyle and freeride hulls and complete skis that, by its own 2023 release, built hulls at a factory in Thailand until a halt, and printed as a team on World Cup freestyle sheets.

  • Rossier Engineering

    Maker, Performance shop · exhaust pipes, engine parts · documented 1996 to 1998

    A Plover, Wisconsin, firm listed in Bombardier's Sea-Doo racing handbooks of 1996 and 1998, in 1998 for race parts and engine modifications, and named in Group K's comments on watercraft magazines of 1996 and 1997.

  • Short Block Technologies

    Maker · engine parts, impellers and pumps · documented 2005 to 2025

    A Florida maker of rebuilt and new personal watercraft engines, signed as the World Finals title sponsor from 2023, and owner of the ADONIS impeller mark.

  • Skat-Trak

    Maker · impellers and pumps, intake grates · documented 1996 to 2022 · the shop sells this brand

    An impeller and pump maker that Group K's comments of 1996 and 1997 credit with swirl props, and whose name the World Finals results of 1999 carry in their title.

  • Solas

    Maker · impellers and pumps, intake grates · documented 1987 to 2018 · the shop sells this brand

    A Taiwan maker of propellers and jet pump parts, in the US trademark register from a 1987 filing, whose impellers magazine tests and builds named from 1996.

  • Tau Ceti

    Maker · engine parts · documented 1997 to 2000

    Flame arrestor brand that Group K in 1997 called the only single-mesh arrestors in a Splash flow test; Personal Watercraft Illustrated named it on a 2000 race build

  • UMI Racing

    Maker · other parts · documented 1996 to 2005

    A Scottsdale, Arizona maker of steering components, listed in Bombardier's 1998 Sea-Doo racing handbook and in the International Jet Sports Boating Association's associate directory of March 2005.

  • VK Composites

    Maker · hulls · documented in 2024

    A hull maker of Pathumthani, Thailand, whose Hyperion the IJSBA homologated in 2024; a VK Composites AQUA-X, which the archive reads as its product, is named in the Japanese association's 2026 Ski-X rules.

  • Westcoast Performance Products

    Maker, Race team · exhaust pipes, hulls, engine parts · documented 1988 to 1998

    Anaheim parts maker and race team, whose team manager Bombardier's 1996 and 1998 racing handbooks quote, and whose corporation registered the WESTCOAST and WORKS PIPE marks in 1990.

  • Worx Racing Components

    Maker · intake grates, ride plates · documented 2009 to 2024 · the shop sells this brand

    An Australian maker of ride plates and intake grates, among them the Maxiloader grate on catalog pages of 2009, trading under a name registered in Australia in 2023.

Performance shops (7)

  • Champion Powersports

    Performance shop · documented 2012 to 2024 · a shop vendor

    Brian Baldwin's jet ski repair shop in Denver, North Carolina, which a local paper says he decided in 2008 to open, and whose backing a Sea-Doo blog credited on his 2012 race craft.

  • Group K

    Performance shop · documented 1996 to 2017

    An Arizona watercraft performance shop, listed by the International Jet Sports Boating Association as an associate member in 2005 and 2017, whose own pages say it builds engine kits and sponsors no racers.

  • MACC Racing

    Performance shop, Race team · documented 2010 to 2024

    The team and parts shop Chris MacClugage started, printed in a 2010 World Cup team column and described by Sea-Doo in 2012 as building aftermarket performance parts.

  • Performance Jet Ski

    Performance shop, Race team · documented in 1988

    A firm that Kawasaki's 1994 technical magazine credits with modifying a championship-winning Super Sport Xi, and that a 1988 magazine names as backing a race team.

  • R&R Jet Tech

    Performance shop, Maker · exhaust pipes · documented 1989 to 1996

    Florida corporation that registered R&R JET TECH in 1990 for jet ski repair, modification and distributorship services; a 1990 Factory Pipe flyer names R&R Jet Tech among short-body pipe makers.

  • RIVA Racing

    Performance shop, Maker, Race team · exhaust pipes, engine parts, intake grates, ride plates, impellers and pumps, other parts · documented 1996 to 2026 · the shop sells this brand

    A Pompano Beach Yamaha dealer whose own parts Personal Watercraft Illustrated tested from 1996, and whose riders Yamaha listed under its name in factory racing lists of 2019 and 2020.

  • Team Butch

    Performance shop, Race team · documented 1987 to 1988

    A Michigan watercraft dealer, also called Butch's Jet Ski Shop, that registered the TEAM BUTCH mark in 1988 and ran riders under that name; it closed after 22 years.

Race teams (3)

  • Broward Motorsports

    Race team · documented 2018 to 2019

    A race team whose rider won races at P1 AquaX in 2018 and took the overall Havasu 300 win in 2019 on its Yamaha, and which Yamaha listed with its factory riders in 2019 and 2020.

  • Dean's Team

    Race team · documented 2010 to 2024

    A race team named in the headline of Yamaha's 2014 tour announcement, whose rider won the 250 Class at the Cocoa Beach round of AquaX USA in 2015 by a magazine's account.

  • Farthing Racing

    Race team · documented 2023 to 2025

    Dustin Farthing's race team, printed in a 2023 World Cup team column and named by the International Jet Sports Boating Association in 2025 as media partner for Yamaha WaveRunners at the World Finals.

What is not here

No makers of complete craft: Yamaha, Kawasaki, Sea-Doo and the makers that left have their own pages. No sanctioning bodies or promoters: they are listed with the bodies. No prices, sales figures or court cases, and no product rated against another.

42 companies · 258 sourced facts

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