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The aftermarket: shops, dealers and the teams they ran

In plain words. Dealers and tuning shops did more than sell parts: several ran race teams and backed riders. This chapter sets out what documents show about those shops and teams from 1979 to 2025, and says where the only source is the shop itself.

Some of the shops that sold racing parts also put riders on the water under their own names. This chapter reads what magazine tests, result sheets, trademark records, the association's member lists, team releases and the shops' own pages say about a Florida Yamaha dealer and its team, three shops of the 1980s and 1990s, two teams documented as recently as 2024 and 2025, MACC Racing and Farthing Racing, and an Arizona tuning shop that says it sponsors no one.

Words on this page (2)
Aftermarket Part
A part that replaces an original one or is used in addition to it, and is not limited to providing the same function as its OEM counterpart. That is the 2010 glossary saying plainly what the 2002 one implied.
World Finals
The IJSBA’s annual championship, run at Lake Havasu City.

On the engine

In the water path

Under and on top

Around the parts

  1. Shops and their teams (this chapter)
  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. A map of the chapters, not a drawing of any machine, and not every part a ski has.

A Florida Yamaha dealer and the team it ran

Contested

The Watercraft Journal's shop tour of July 2015 says Steve Bamdas and Lynn Bamdas started the business in Pompano Beach in 1979 as Lambretta South, a scooter dealer that a few years later took the Yamaha Riva scooter line and the name Riva World, and Coastal Angler's profile of February 2018 names the same two as opening it. Each article tells the business's own account and cites no document. In March 1996 Personal Watercraft Illustrated tested a set of parts from Riva Yamaha, which it described as a Yamaha dealership in Pompano Beach, Florida, that also made aftermarket parts meant only for Yamahas. The magazine called Dave Bamdas "the boss man at Riva Yamaha", said the dealer developed those parts through the riders it sponsored, counted four of them, and named Jeff Jacobs among them. It described a retail store, a parts warehouse, a race team shop and a test canal, and said every performance part fitted to its test machine was the dealer's own except a set of reed petals and an impeller. The same magazine's December 1998 test of a Factory Pipe exhaust says Riva Yamaha also sold that maker's three-pipe system for the GP1200, and the tested set includes a digital ignition unit sold under the dealer's own name. On the official overall sheet of the 2008 Long Beach to Catalina and Back race, five of the 34 finishers list Riva Racing or Riva among their sponsors, which shows the names on the sheet and not whom the dealer paid or supported. The association's associate member lists name RIVA Motorsports in March 2005 and again on the current page, stamped 21 March 2017, and in April 2005 the association announced Dave Bamdas, of Riva Motorsports, as elected to its board for its associate members. When the dealer became Yamaha's factory team is where the documents part. RIVA's own history page, as captured on 5 October 2026, says it was appointed the first official Yamaha factory race team for personal watercraft competition in 1992. The Watercraft Journal's shop tour of 2015, made at the invitation of Dave Bamdas, whom it calls RIVA Racing's president, says only that the team's success earned the dealer that position, with no year. Coastal Angler, a regional magazine, wrote in February 2018 that Yamaha designated RIVA its official factory team in 1997, and Powersports Business quoted Dave Bamdas in December 2023 as saying he got a race budget from Yamaha in 1993, which dates a budget and not an appointment. None of these cites a Yamaha document, and none is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-06). The 1996 test calls the riders sponsored by the dealer and never uses the words factory team (searched the held text, 2026-10-06), and the 1998 test mentions a 1997 Yamaha factory racing team without saying who ran it. Another shop, Group K, in its comments on an August 1997 magazine issue, kept on its own site, names a tuner as one of those charged with building the "Team Yamaha/Riva" tour race boats; that is the shop's wording, not a Yamaha document, and it gives no appointment date. A Personal Watercraft Illustrated article captured in August 2001 says that the dealer, after announcing a racer-support programme, was for the first time in years not fielding a pro-level team. The 2015 shop tour says the dealer's racer support had changed since the 1990s.

RIVA Racing About page says
RIVA's own history page says the dealer was appointed the first official Yamaha factory race team for personal watercraft competition in 1992, and cites no Yamaha document.
Coastal Angler on RIVA 2018 says
Coastal Angler's profile of February 2018 says Yamaha designated the dealer as its official factory race team in 1997, and cites no Yamaha document.
Powersports Business RIVA Space Coast 2023 says
Powersports Business of December 2023 quotes Dave Bamdas as saying he got a race budget from Yamaha in 1993, and cites no Yamaha document.

Sources: PWI 1996 Riva WaveRaider test; PWI December 1998 Factory Pipe test; 2008 LB2CAT official overall; IJSBA associate directory 2005; IJSBA associate members page; Watercraft Journal 17 July 2015; RIVA Racing About page; Coastal Angler on RIVA 2018; PWI online Riva Stage II 2001; Group K Between the Lines 1997; IJSBA post Bamdas elected 2005; Powersports Business RIVA Space Coast 2023

Three shops: Team Butch, Performance Jet Ski and Rocket Ship Watercraft

Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's news item, captured on 5 April 2001 and printing no date of its own, names Steve Laham as the original owner of Team Butch, also called Butch's Jet Ski Shop, a dealer in Kawasaki, Yamaha and Sea-Doo watercraft that first opened in 1979. It says the shop's riders won championships, names nine of them and counts no titles. The item was written to report the shop's closing, which is told with the other closures in the chapter on hulls, rule books and closures. BRP's release on his hall of fame induction of 2011 names the same shop and credits Team Butch with national and world IJSBA championships, again without a list. A highlight from the February 1988 issue, read through the Internet Archive's search and not as an article, shows a fragment that reads as an advertisement for equipment under the Team Butch name, inviting dealer inquiries. Highlights from the Official Gazette of the Patent and Trademark Office show BUTCH'S and TEAM BUTCH published in August 1987 for a corporation trading as Butch's Jet Ski Shop, with repair among the services. The register's own record of a second TEAM BUTCH mark shows it filed on 15 May 1987, with single-person recreational jet boats among its goods. The February 1988 magazine highlights also mention a team backed by Performance Jet Ski, without the rest of the sentence. Kawasaki's technical magazine, K-Tech News, of spring 1994 credits Performance Jet Ski with modifying the Super Sport Xi that was ridden to IJSBA World and National Pro Runabout championships, and introduces a production machine, the JH750-D1 or XiR, whose hull it calls virtually identical to that boat's. The titles are Kawasaki's statement, and no result sheet for them is held (searched the archive's mirror, 2026-10-06). Splash's June 1996 issue ran a feature on the Rocket Ship Watercraft racing replica of Chris Fischetti's Sea-Doo HX. The archive's transcription of the article lists a replica package under his name that includes Rocket Ship steering, a ride plate, an intake grate and an exhaust. The archive's own summary of the article, in its words and not the magazine's, says he opened Rocket Ship Watercraft as a dealership in central Florida. The feature's continuation on page 44 had not been read as of 2026-10-06. None of the three shop names is printed as a sponsor on any held World Finals, offshore or World Cup sheet (searched the archive's mirror, 2026-10-06).

Sources: PWI Team Butch news 2001; BRP release on Laham 2011; PWI February 1988 trade probes; Official Gazette Butch marks 1987; USPTO goods sweep Oct 2026; K-Tech News Spring 1994; Splash June 1996

Two teams documented in 2024 and 2025, MACC Racing and Farthing Racing

Likely

MACC Racing is printed beside Chris MacClugage's name, as USA / MACC RACING in the country and team column, on the Pro Ski Open result table of the Jet Ski World Cup Grand Prix held at Phitsanulok, Thailand, from 1 to 5 December 2010. Sea-Doo's own blog, profiling him as an X-Team rider on 15 February 2012, says that his years of learning the business "helped him spawn MACC Racing", which it describes as a high-performance shop building aftermarket parts for enthusiasts around the world. On 25 March 2024 The Watercraft Journal printed the team's release, which names him MACC Racing's owner and rider, says the team is partnered with Monster Energy for the 2024 P1 AquaX US Championships on Yamaha-powered skis, and adds new teammates. These documents, read on 2026-10-06, print the names but not when the shop or the team began. Farthing Racing is documented for 2024 and 2025. On 3 December 2024 The Watercraft Journal reported Dustin Farthing's announcement, and printed the team's release, that Farthing Racing would again be the official Yamaha WaveRunners factory race team in 2025, with five professional riders and one amateur racer, planning to compete in P1 AquaX, IJSBA and Aquabike events. The IJSBA's release of 12 September 2025 names Farthing Racing the official media partner for Yamaha WaveRunners and the 2025 SBT World Finals and quotes him as its owner; its closing note, which reads as the team's own text, says he founded it. The factory-team title rests on the team's release, and no Yamaha document for it is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-06).

Sources: World Cup 2010 results; Sea-Doo blog X-Team profile 2012; Watercraft Journal 25 March 2024; Watercraft Journal 3 December 2024; IJSBA release 12 September 2025

Group K and its statement on sponsoring racers

Likely

Group K, a shop in Fort Mohave, Arizona, says on its own About page that it does not sponsor any racers or race teams. Its stated reason is that hiring a professional rider to beat its customers is a conflict of interest, and that paying customers would not believe they were buying exactly the same equipment as a sponsored rider has. The page adds that professional racers do most of its high-speed test riding but are, in its words, just test riders, and that it does not manufacture or distribute aftermarket bolt-on parts, which it says lets it test them and recommend them whatever the maker. A capture of the page made on 4 February 2005 makes the same statements. That capture says 2004 will be the shop's 18th year of building watercraft, and the current page says since 1986; both are the shop's own count. Other Group K documents sit beside that statement. Its report on the 1996 offshore season, written that year, lists riders with a make and a team name, three of them under two labels that include Group K's name, and says one rider's machine carried a Group K Sleeper kit; the report itself does not say what the labels mean (checked 2026-10-06). The shop's comments on the 1996 magazines, kept on its site under a heading for that year, call two of those three riders its offshore test riders for developing its Sleeper kits and the third a technician and test rider, which is the shop's own account. The report also says Chris Fischetti ran a prototype of its Sea-Doo XP Sleeper kit at an ocean event before the IJSBA tour began. Its page for the Kawasaki 750 stand-up says that in 2001 Kawasaki and the shop formed a relationship with an open exchange of information between Kawasaki's race team and Group K, calls Group K the factory connected information and performance source for competitive Kawasaki watercraft equipment, and says Kawasaki's team will continue to operate and race nationally as it has in the past. No Kawasaki document for this is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-06). The association's associate member directory of 9 March 2005 and its current members page both list Group K with Harry Klemm as the named contact, and give him no office. A witness statement for the Personal Watercraft Industry Association, printed in the record of a House hearing on 23 May 2001, cites a personal communication from him, of the Group K Personal Watercraft High Performance Shop, in its passage on engine noise. No document outside the shop's own pages shows whether the shop paid or supported any rider, and the policy statement is held only from the capture of 4 February 2005 (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-06).

Sources: Group K About page; Group K About page 2005; Group K offshore racing 1996; Group K Between the Lines 1996; Group K Kawasaki 750 racing page; IJSBA associate directory 2005; IJSBA associate members page; House hearing on park access 2001

Not covered, and why (5)

RIVA Racing was Yamaha's first official factory race team, appointed in 1992, with a stated Yamaha budget.
Printed in the chapter only as RIVA's own claim set against a 1997 date from Coastal Angler and a 1993 race budget quoted in a 2023 report, none cited to any Yamaha document; no budget figure is printed. The first-ever claim is RIVA's own, repeated without a year by The Watercraft Journal's 2015 shop tour, made at RIVA's invitation, and no Yamaha document for it is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-07).
Group K states outright that it avoids sponsoring race teams to avoid conflicts of interest.
The chapter prints the shop's stated policy in its page's own reasons, attributed to its About page, and sets beside it the shop's 1996 team labels, the shop's own comment that the labelled riders were its test riders, and its 2001 statement on Kawasaki's team. No document outside the shop's own pages shows whether the policy governed in practice (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-06), and no verdict is given.
Team Butch was one of the two largest Sea-Doo dealers in North America for ten consecutive years, pioneered mail-order performance parts marketing, and used racing as its main promotion.
Each is a ranking or a first from one company release (BRP's, 2011), with no second source; the chapter uses the release only for the shop's name and the championships it credits to the team.
Performance Jet Ski ran Kawasaki's factory team in 1993 and 1994, under a named owner.
Rests on a forum relay of a 1996 magazine and a forum post; the chapter uses only Kawasaki's own technical magazine of spring 1994, which credits the firm with modifying the machine ridden to the Pro Runabout championships.
Career championship totals for riders of RIVA, Team Butch, MACC Racing or Farthing Racing, and any team's record of titles.
The documents give totals and titles in their own words; none is read off a held result sheet for these teams, and a reported career total is not printed as a count.

What could not be read (3)

  • No Yamaha document dating RIVA's appointment as Yamaha's factory race team is held; RIVA's own page says 1992, a 2018 regional magazine says 1997 and a 2023 trade report quotes a race budget of 1993, and none cites a Yamaha source (searched the archive's mirror and research cache for Yamaha documents, 2026-10-06; the 2023 report read 2026-10-07).
  • No Kawasaki document for Group K's stated 2001 relationship with Kawasaki's race team is held, and nothing held dates Group K's statement that it does not sponsor racers earlier than the capture of 4 February 2005 (searched the archive's mirror and research cache for Kawasaki documents, 2026-10-06).
  • Team Butch is documented here by a news item of 2001, a release of 2011 and two sets of search highlights from 1987 and 1988. Performance Jet Ski is documented by one of those sets and a Kawasaki magazine article of 1994, and Rocket Ship Watercraft by one magazine feature of 1996 that is held only as the archive's transcription of a printed copy. The highlights are not articles, and no held result sheet prints any of the three names (searched the archive's mirror, 2026-10-06).

People on record (13)

Each has a page on Key Figures, named for a public role a document records.

Documents cited in this chapter

  • PWI 1996 Riva WaveRaider test (web.archive.org): Test: Riva Yamaha's WaveRaider 701 bolt-on performance package (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1996, Wayback capture), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1996; enthusiast media, medium. A period magazine's test of Riva Yamaha's bolt-on parts, run in March 1996 and posted in the magazine's 1996 web archive, which names the riders the Pompano Beach dealer then sponsored. Medium as a period trade report. The held copy has the dealer's phone and fax numbers replaced, and one sentence about a rider's 1995 season omitted under the archive's rule on minors.
  • PWI December 1998 Factory Pipe test (web.archive.org): Factory Pipe's Yamaha WaveRunner GP800 Exhaust Systems, by Jeff Hain (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, December 1998, Wayback capture), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1998-12; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's test of a Factory Pipe twin exhaust for the Yamaha GP800, twice naming Factory Pipe owner Ross Liberty. Phone numbers in its supplier list are removed from the held copy; the product verdicts are not used.
  • 2008 LB2CAT official overall (web.archive.org): Long Beach to Catalina and Back 2008, official overall results (spreadsheet on pwcoffshore.com, Wayback capture), pwcoffshore.com, 2008-08-07; editorial, high. The race's official overall results, revision of 7 August 2008, with position, number, make, time, class and sponsors per rider, read as spreadsheet rows. High because it is the results document itself; the sheet prints no sanctioning body, and the event and year come from its file name.
  • IJSBA associate directory 2005 (web.archive.org): IJSBA associate members, corporate member directory (Wayback capture of 9 March 2005), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2005-03-09; sanctioning body, high. The association's own list of companies holding associate membership, as its site showed it on 9 March 2005, each with an address and most with a named contact. High for which companies the association listed and whom it named for each; it gives no title or office for a contact. Phone numbers and email addresses are replaced in the held copy.
  • IJSBA associate members page (ijsba.com): IJSBA Associate Members (IJSBA page), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2017-03-21; sanctioning body, high. The association's current list of associate members, read live on 5 October 2026; the page carries a last-modified stamp of 21 March 2017, which is the date given here. High for whom the association lists; it gives no office for a named contact. (as IJSBA associate directory 2005 above)
  • Watercraft Journal 17 July 2015 (watercraftjournal.com): The Golden Ticket: Behind-The-Curtain of RIVA Motorsports and RIVA Racing (The Watercraft Journal, 17 July 2015), The Watercraft Journal, 2015-07-17; enthusiast media, medium. A shop-tour feature on RIVA written from a visit, naming the racers the dealer's team sponsored in the 1990s. Medium as trade press; what it says of RIVA's own past is the company's account as told to the writer, and it gives no years for the riders it names. The held copy has one family detail and an editor's address placeholder replaced in place.
  • RIVA Racing About page (rivaracing.com): RIVA Racing's History: Humble Beginnings (RIVA Racing About page), RIVA Racing; manufacturer primary, low. The company's own account of its history, read from a copy saved on 5 October 2026: a shop opened in 1979, its watercraft years from 1987, and the dealer's appointment as the first official Yamaha factory race team for personal watercraft competition in 1992. Low, because every date on it is the company's own telling of its history, and it cites no Yamaha document. The held copy omits the site menus and replaces one family detail and the phone numbers in place.
  • Coastal Angler on RIVA 2018 (coastalanglermag.com): Built In Broward: RIVA Motorsports (Coastal Angler, Fort Lauderdale edition, 1 February 2018), Coastal Angler Magazine, 2018-02-01; editorial, medium. A short business profile in a regional fishing and boating magazine. Medium as printed trade-adjacent press; what it says of the company's past (its 1997 date for Yamaha's designation of the dealer as its official factory race team, and its superlatives) is told without a source, so a page citing it attributes the year to the magazine and uses none of its praise. The held copy omits the site menus and replaces phone numbers in place.
  • PWI online Riva Stage II 2001 (web.archive.org): Riva Yamaha Stage II GP1200R (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online, Wayback capture of 16 August 2001), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 2001; enthusiast media, medium. A magazine test of a Riva Yamaha parts package, run at a February performance demonstration and posted on the magazine's site; the page prints no date of its own, and the capture date is the only date held. Its opening says the dealer had announced a racer-support programme some months before and was, for the first time in years, not fielding a pro-level team. The article's product verdicts and the dealer's claims it repeats are not used. (as PWI 1996 Riva WaveRaider test above)
  • Group K Between the Lines 1997 (groupk.com): Between The Lines - January 97 to December 97 (Group K, groupk.com), Group K, 1997; enthusiast media, medium. The same shop's comments on the technical items in the PWC magazines of 1997, issue by issue, kept on its site under the heading January 97 to December 97. Read on 2026-10-05 and held as text; the page is current and no earlier capture is held, so the dating rests on the heading and the issue-by-issue layout. Medium as a trade participant's period commentary, cited only for which products it names as existing. The shop's telephone number and street address are removed from the held copy.
  • IJSBA post Bamdas elected 2005 (web.archive.org): Dave Bamdas Elected to IJSBA Board of Directors (IJSBA news post dated 13 April 2005, Wayback capture of 22 September 2020), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2005-04-13; sanctioning body, high. The association's own announcement that its associate member companies had elected a representative to its Board of Directors, naming him, his company and the date the new board takes office (22 April 2005). High for whom the association announced and for the year of the term. The page prints the date April 13th, 2005 in its byline line beside a second date, 16 December 2012, which the archive reads as the site's own record stamp and not as the posting date; the text itself places the term in 2005. The managing director's praise and the post's statement that this was a first for the association are not used. Site menus are omitted from the held copy.
  • Powersports Business RIVA Space Coast 2023 (powersportsbusiness.com): RIVA Motorsports dealer group expands alongside space industry, by Madelyn Pegg (Powersports Business, 19 December 2023), Powersports Business, 2023-12-19; editorial, medium. A trade-magazine report on the dealer group's fourth location, built around an interview with one of its owners, with a photograph caption that names six people of RIVA Motorsports and a section on the group's history that dates the first store to 1979 and names who opened it. Medium as trade press; the history is the owner's telling to the writer. The interview also dates the start of RIVA Racing to 1992 and a Yamaha race budget to 1993, which the figure records do not print but which bear on the dates for the Yamaha factory team in the aftermarket chapter on shops and teams. Family and personal details in the body are replaced in the held copy and nothing from them is used.
  • PWI Team Butch news 2001 (web.archive.org): Team Butch Closes Its Doors (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online news, Wayback capture of 5 April 2001), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 2001; editorial, medium. A news item on the magazine's site reporting the closure of Team Butch, or Butch's Jet Ski Shop: first opened in 1979, its original owner, its sale in 1999 and its riders. Captured on 5 April 2001; the page prints no date of its own. Medium as period trade press.
  • BRP release on Laham 2011 (prnewswire.com): BRP's Steve Laham inducted to the IJSBA Hall of Fame (BRP press release, PR Newswire), BRP (Bombardier Recreational Products), distributed by PR Newswire, 2011-12-01; manufacturer primary, medium. BRP's release on its own executive's induction into the IJSBA hall of fame, with his years at Butch's Jet Ski Shop and his BRP posts. Medium for the posts and the induction; its praise, and the quoted praise of the association's managing director, are the release's words and no page repeats them. PR Newswire's phone numbers are replaced in the held copy.
  • PWI February 1988 trade probes (archive.org): Personal Watercraft Illustrated volume 2 number 1 of 1988 (archive.org full-text search highlights for trade names), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, read through the Internet Archive's full-text search, 1988; enthusiast media, medium. A second set of OCR highlights from the same emptied item as the PWI February 1988 search text, one query per trade name: a Team Butch advertisement, a reference to a team backed by Performance Jet Ski, a Jetco catalogue offer and an Ocean Pro advertisement. Short passages with the OCR's errors, not articles. Medium; the phone numbers in the highlights are replaced in the held copy. The link opens the item's archive.org page; the highlights were read through the full-text search, as the held copy says.
  • Official Gazette Butch marks 1987 (archive.org): Official Gazette of the Patent and Trademark Office, Trademarks, 1987 and 1988: BUTCH'S and TEAM BUTCH (full-text search highlights), United States Patent and Trademark Office, read through the Internet Archive's full-text search, 1987-08-25; government, medium. Search highlights from four microfilmed issues of the Gazette, 25 August 1987 to 17 May 1988, printing the marks BUTCH'S and TEAM BUTCH against a corporation doing business as Butch's Jet Ski Shop, with the goods classes. Medium rather than high because only OCR highlights were read, not the gazette pages, so the first-use dates printed beside the serial numbers cannot be assigned to one entry with certainty and are not used. The entries name no person. The link opens the first of the four items; the held copy names all four.
  • USPTO goods sweep Oct 2026 (tmsearch.uspto.gov): USPTO tmsearch records, goods-text sweep for watercraft under-hull and pump parts marks (read 2026-10-06), United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2026-10-06; government, high. Our extract of USPTO's own trademark search records, read on 2026-10-06 through the search's JSON endpoint with a browser user agent. It prints the six goods-text queries, the rule by which 29 marks were kept from the 85 records returned, and each kept mark's dates, status, owner as printed and goods. High for what the register records. The count it supports is a count of what these queries returned, not of every mark in the trade.
  • K-Tech News Spring 1994 (archive.org): K-Tech News, The Kawasaki Technical Magazine, vol. 7 no. 1, Spring 1994 (OCR excerpt), Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A., 1994; manufacturer primary, medium. The maker's technical magazine for its dealers; the front-page article on the JH750-D1 (XiR) says the machine it derives from was modified by Performance Jet Ski and ridden to IJSBA World and National Pro Runabout championships. Medium: a maker describing a machine it then sold, and the championships are its statement, not read off a result sheet. Only the article and its continuation are held, read from the OCR text of a bulk scan.
  • Splash June 1996 (held here, not public): Riding A Rocket, Splash, June 1996, pages 40 to 42 (our transcription of the owner's printed copy), Splash magazine, 1996-06; enthusiast media, medium. A period magazine feature on a race replica of his Sea-Doo HX, read from phone photographs of the owner's printed copy on 26 August 2026 and transcribed in our own record, already held here, so it is kept there rather than copied. The modification package and two short phrases are verbatim; the record's account of the article's running text is a summary in the transcriber's words, so a page restating it says so. The magazine has no public address, so the article is held here only. The continuation on page 44 was not read.
  • World Cup 2010 results (web.archive.org): Jet Ski World Cup Grand Prix 2010, Ratchanok Park, Phitsanulok, results index and five class result tables (Wayback captures), Jet Ski World Cup Grand Prix Co., Ltd (jetski-worldcup.com), 2010-12; sanctioning body, high. The organiser's result tables for the event of 1 to 5 December 2010 in Pro Ski Open, Pro Sport GP, Pro Runabout Open, Pro Freestyle and Amateur Women Ski Limited: number, rider, country and team, make, moto points, total and final position, read in full from raw captures. The index page heads itself Grand Prix 2011 above the 2010 dates. The 2011 to 2013 results were images the archive does not hold.
  • Sea-Doo blog X-Team profile 2012 (web.archive.org): X-Team Tuesday Profile: Chris MacClugage (Sea-Doo OnBoard blog, 15 February 2012, Wayback capture), BRP Inc., Sea-Doo OnBoard blog, 2012-02-15; manufacturer primary, medium. The maker's profile of a rider on its X-Team, held as an excerpt of a 2015 capture, in which one family sentence was already omitted. Medium: a maker writing about a rider it backed, not about its own history.
  • Watercraft Journal 25 March 2024 (watercraftjournal.com): Monster Energy MACC Racing Unveils 2024 Team Lineup (The Watercraft Journal, 25 March 2024), The Watercraft Journal, 2024-03-25; enthusiast media, medium. Trade-press report that prints the MACC Racing team's own release for the 2024 P1 AquaX season. Medium. The held copy replaces in place the name, age and quotations of a teenage team-mate, under the archive's rule on minors; its career totals and nicknames are not used.
  • Watercraft Journal 3 December 2024 (watercraftjournal.com): Farthing Racing to Continue As Yamaha Waverunners Factory Race Team for 2025 (The Watercraft Journal, 3 December 2024), The Watercraft Journal, 2024-12-03; enthusiast media, medium. Trade-press report printing Farthing Racing's own release on its 2025 season with Yamaha. Medium; the release is the team's account.
  • IJSBA release 12 September 2025 (ijsba.com): Farthing Racing Named Official Media Partner of the 2025 IJSBA SBT World Finals (IJSBA post, 12 September 2025), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2025-09-12; sanctioning body, high. The association's own announcement of a media partnership for the 2025 World Finals, quoting the team's owner. High for what the association announced and whom it named; its closing note on Farthing Racing reads as the team's own text, so what it says of the team's founding is the team's account.
  • Group K About page (groupk.com): About Group K (Group K page), Group K; manufacturer primary, medium. The shop's own statement of what it does, read from a copy saved on 5 October 2026: engine modification kits, no manufacture or distribution of aftermarket bolt-on parts, and no sponsorship of racers or race teams, with its reasons. Medium for what the shop says about its policy, which is the shop's word; the years it counts itself in business are its own account of its history and no page relies on them. The held copy omits the site menus and replaces the phone number and an email address in place.
  • Group K About page 2005 (web.archive.org): About Group K (Group K about.htm, Wayback capture of 4 February 2005), Group K, 2005-02-04; manufacturer primary, medium. An earlier capture of the same page, carrying the same statements on parts, testing and sponsorship and counting 2004 as the shop's eighteenth year. It dates the statements to no later than early 2005. Medium on the same terms as the current page. The held copy replaces the phone number and an email address in place.
  • Group K offshore racing 1996 (groupk.com): Offshore Racing 1996, The View from Region 1 (Group K, groupk.com), Group K, 1996; enthusiast media, medium. A tuning shop's report on the 1996 IJSBA Region 1 offshore and endurance season, written during that season ("as of this writing") and kept on the shop's site, naming the riders, their sponsors and their machines. Medium as a trade participant's period report: Group K sponsored one of the riders it describes. The shop's telephone number is removed from the held copy.
  • Group K Between the Lines 1996 (groupk.com): Between The Lines - 1996 (Group K, groupk.com), Group K, 1996; enthusiast media, medium. A tuning shop's comments on the technical items in the PWC magazines of 1995 and 1996, issue by issue, kept on the shop's site under the heading 1996. Read on 2026-10-05 and held as text. It is the shop's current page and no earlier capture is held, so the dating rests on the heading and on the issue-by-issue layout. Medium as a trade participant's period commentary: the shop sells engine kits and names the parts it uses, and its opinions of other makers' parts are not relied on. Cited only for which products it names as existing. (as Group K Between the Lines 1997 above)
  • Group K Kawasaki 750 racing page (groupk.com): Kawasaki SXI Pro 750, Racing Mods (Group K page), Group K; manufacturer primary, medium. The shop's page for its kits for the Kawasaki 750 stand-up, written about 2002: a preface on a 2001 relationship with Kawasaki's race team, the exhaust section that defines the shop's use of dry for a Factory Pipe pipe, and the kit lists. Medium as a seller's description of products it sells; its relationship claims are the shop's own and no Kawasaki document is held. The held copy omits the site menus and replaces the phone number in place; its prices are not used.
  • House hearing on park access 2001 (govinfo.gov): Recreational Access to Public Lands, oversight hearing before the House Committee on Resources, 23 May 2001, Serial No. 107-32 (GPO text), U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Resources; printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002; government, medium. The printed record of the hearing of 23 May 2001, published in 2002. Endnote 4 of a witness's prepared statement, given on behalf of the Personal Watercraft Industry Association, cites a personal communication from Harry Klemm of the Group K Personal Watercraft High Performance Shop for its passage on engine noise. Medium because the description of him is the witness's, printed in the record rather than found by the committee. The printing office's phone numbers are replaced in the held copy.

Changes to this chapter

  • 2026-10-07: The Florida dealer section now names Steve Bamdas, Lynn Bamdas and Dave Bamdas, who have Key Figures records since the third set, and adds the 2023 report's 1993 race budget as a third dating of the factory team. The two teams section no longer prints a 2002 Long Beach to Catalina win from the PWCOFFSHORE winners roll: MACC Racing is placed beside Chris MacClugage by the 2010 World Cup result table alone, and the caveat no longer lists a winners roll.
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