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Joe Kenney

Won the Red Bull Wave Bash in its third year in a watercraft magazine's report, and is reported freeriding in Baja California and on stand-up craft at Cortes Bank with Randy Laine.

At a glance

Role
Racer and rider
Disciplines
Freeride
Titles on the record
none read off a held results document yet
In print and on screen
1 piece about the racing, each linked where it sits

  • Confirmed 0

  • Likely 5

  • Contested 0

The grade word on each fact on this page, counted. It grades how firmly the documents tie each fact to this person, not the person.

How we know: the word printed above each fact below, counted on this page only.

Results

Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's report of the Red Bull Wave Bash, in its third year and with a 16-rider entry list, says Joe Kenney won it, edging Chris MacClugage in the final with one last wave just before the horn. The page prints no date for the contest. No result sheet is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).

Sources: PWI 2003 Red Bull Wave Bash report

Riding outside a race

Likely

The same report mentions, in the writer's words, a stand-up freeride expedition in South America and a jaunt out to one of California's Channel Islands on his Yamaha SUV among his outings. It gives no dates for either.

Sources: PWI 2003 Red Bull Wave Bash report

Likely

The magazine's August 1999 issue reports a week's trip with the Jet Pilot Freeride team in Baja California, setting out on April 20. The writer watched him in the surf and says he pulled off his first Richter, as the piece spells the trick, on a basically stock watercraft. The piece prints no year for the trip. Reading the 2003 report, this trip and the 2005 gathering as one rider rests on the name, an inference.

Sources: PWI August 1999 Freedom riders

Likely

A news item in the magazine dated 14 January 2004 says freeriders Randy Laine and Joe Kenney had recently made the trip to Cortes Bank, a surf break about 100 miles off the coast of California, and rode its waves on stand-up personal watercraft. In an interview AllAboutSurf posted on 24 July 2005, Laine calls a Joe Kinney, as the interview spells it, a free-rider who has been to Cortes Bank. That he is Joe Kenney is the archive's reading, from the Cortes Bank ride the two made together, an inference.

Sources: PWI news 14 January 2004 Cortes Bank; AllAboutSurf Laine feature 2005

Likely

The magazine's February 2005 issue names him among the freeriders at its ninth annual Mex Rager gathering at Cantamar, Baja California, held the weekend after the World Finals, and says he was pulling backflips. The page dates the gathering only as "this year".

Sources: PWI February 2005 Mex Rager

In print and on screen (1)

What has been written, said or filmed about this person's racing, oldest first, each linked where it sits. The archive hosts no copy and embeds nothing. A reading list, not evidence: the facts above cite their own documents.

  1. 2003 · Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com) · Article

    Competition: Red Bull Wave Bash, The Waterman, by Chris Jonnum

    A magazine report of the third Red Bull Wave Bash, a surf-riding contest, and of his final against Chris MacClugage.

What the archive has not read (2)

  • The January 2004 news item calls him and Laine the first freeriders to ride Cortes Bank and gives the waves as 25 to 35 feet. The item names no body that keeps records (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18), so neither the first nor the size is stated here.
  • The news item promised a fuller feature on the Cortes Bank trip in a later issue; no such feature is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).

Documents cited on this page

  • PWI 2003 Red Bull Wave Bash report (web.archive.org): Competition: Red Bull Wave Bash, The Waterman, by Chris Jonnum (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online feature, Wayback capture of 10 April 2003), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 2003; enthusiast media, medium. Report of the third Red Bull Wave Bash, a surf-riding contest with a 16-rider entry list, which Joe Kenney won over Chris MacClugage in the final. The page prints no date for the contest or the piece; the published year is the year of the earliest capture. Medium as the magazine's own report. Only an excerpt is held here.
  • PWI August 1999 Freedom riders (web.archive.org): Adventure: Baja California, Mexico, Freedom riders, by Heather Selwitz (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, August 1999 issue, online archive page, Wayback capture of 18 January 2000), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1999-08; enthusiast media, medium. A writer's account of a week's camping and surf-riding trip with the Jet Pilot Freeride team in Baja California, starting from the Jet Pilot offices on April 20, at Punta San Jacinto and a beach south of Ensenada. Medium for what the writer saw; the page prints no year for the trip. The held copy keeps the riding passages only.
  • PWI news 14 January 2004 Cortes Bank (web.archive.org): Adventure: Massive Surf, by Josh Burns (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online news item dated 14 January 2004, Wayback capture of 15 August 2004), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 2004-01-14; enthusiast media, medium. A short news item saying that freeriders Randy Laine and Joe Kenney had recently ridden stand-up personal watercraft at Cortes Bank. Medium for the magazine's report; its "first freeriders" and its wave heights are claims no body that keeps records confirms, and are not used. "Recently" is the only date for the ride.
  • AllAboutSurf Laine feature 2005 (web.archive.org): Randy Laine - 70 Feet and Holding, by Ken McKnight (AllAboutSurf, 24 July 2005), pages 2 and 3 (Wayback captures), AllAboutSurf, 2005-07-24; enthusiast media, low. A surf website's interview feature, with photographs and video credited to its subject. It is the earliest held text for the wave of January 2001 at Cortes Bank: the subject says in interview that he was there on 19 January 2001, and the article says he set a record for the biggest wave ridden on a Yamaha SuperJet, estimated at 72 feet. Low because the figure is the subject's own account, written four years later, and no body that keeps records is named.
  • PWI February 2005 Mex Rager (web.archive.org): Three Kilometers of Happiness, by Heather Selwitz (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, February 2005 issue, online page, Wayback capture of 18 March 2005), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 2005-02; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's report of its ninth annual Mex Rager gathering at Cantamar, Baja California, held the weekend after the World Finals, naming the freeriders there and what several of them did in the surf. Medium; the page dates the gathering only as "this year". The held version of the report is abridged.
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“Joe Kenney”, BaddJet archive, https://baddjetarchive.com/key-figures/joe-kenney/

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