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The Board of Municipality of Mourias recently sent to www.jetskyworld.gr the new calendar of the village which features photos of the jet skiers exploring Lake Ladonna last July. The exploration was organized by www.jetskiworld.gr and the Champions store (www.championsjetski.com) and were achieved by four couples who rode two skis and two runabouts. The organizers as well as the riders are looking forward to visit the Lake in the future and explore it once again, possibly by bringing along other riders too.

Hydrospace participated at the annual event, Dream Demo, that was organized by Watercraft World in Florida. All manufacturers were shown with the complete line up of their models available for test ride. The Austrian based company had attended the event with the four stroke ski, S4, a stand up which originally designed for racing. The photos were shot at the event site, Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg Florida and were sent to www.jetskiworld.gr by Thomas Breuss, sales manager of Hydrospace.

A number of Greek athletes and pwc enthusiasts explored Lake Ladona last July, covering 16km from its dam to the River Ladona. The Municipal Board of village Mouria is willing to award the pwc riders for their effort and large expose of the area, in a ceremony that will take place in Athens at the end of January, since the particular event was published in the www.jetskiworld.gr web site as well to several magazines. Top pwc rider, 3rd at the World Finals, Vasilis Moraitis and multi National champion Akis Malouchos are planning to organize other events and adventures in order to boost the pwc sport and enhance tourism in the area.

Yamaha was present at the International Boat Show that was held in Athens in the mid of November, by presenting some of the 2007 WaveRunner models as well as a collection of clothing and accessories. Yamaha is planning to have the following models on the dealer network: the two stroke two seater GP1300R (13.720euros), and the four stroke three seaters FX HO Cruiser (16.940euros), FX HO (16.140euros), VX Sport (10.590euros), VX Deluxe (11.600euros) and the brand new VX Cruiser (11.900euros). The new range of Yamaha WaveRunners will be available from January. The stand up model Super Jet will no longer be available for sale due to the fact that it does not satisfy the latest regulations of EEC.

Sea Doo has the largest range of personal watercrafts in the Greek market. Actually, the Greek Importer will have available 11 models. Eight of those are three seaters (GTI 4TEC 130, GTI 4TEC SE 130, GTI 4TEC SE 155, GTI 4TEC W/B155, GTI 4TEC W/B215, GTX 4TEC 155, GTX 4TEC Lim. Ed. και το RTX), while additionally there are two two seaters (RXP 215 και RXP 155) and one solo (3D Premium). Petropoulos, the Importer of Sea Doo has already established the prices of the new range and the models will be available from February next year.

The official energy drink of the 2006 World Finals was no other than Monster Energy. The company had an exceptional booth and made a strong presence since it used a big truck and the rest of their equipment. They supplied the crowed with ice cold drinks during all times of the events. On the big board placed on the front of their mobile bar everyone could see hundreds of stickers that were stack on there by racers and teams. Multi National Champion of Greece in pwc racing, Akis Malouchos put the sticker of his business, (Champion Jet Ski store), on the famous Monster board.

Getting on the 3DR seat and grasping tightly on the bars of this race craft was enough! Having ridden Mac’s supercharged factory Kawasaki race craft two years ago and some other race crafts of this nature, I thought I was accustomed to the unique power and was expecting to feel something similar. Well, I was wrong. This specially built race craft is a monster with enormous pumping acceleration. The acceleration on the straight was enough to glue my goggles to my face! Getting on the gas right after exiting the buoy was another story. My body had to be so tight and firm while having it in the right position before exiting the turn…otherwise, I could easily high sided. Macc Racing had definitely done a superb job in terms of handling since this monster gave you the feeling of running, as if the boat was on rails. No matter how hard I was trying to turn it, there was no sign of rear end sliding, and it was making it harder and harder to keep up with the forces in order to stay on board. Even Chris had told me that due to the fact that he had spent lots of time developing his stand up, he hadn’t enough time on the Runabout. As a result, he was getting tired much easier than before. The pump was fed properly and the hook up was great under test ride conditions. I did not have to lean on the hull in order to pin it into the turn, no matter how stiff the turn was. Therefore, the pump was operating much better; a fact that was achieved by hard work and many hours of testing different sponsons, spacers and the overall matching of them. For Havasu set up this STX-15 Supercharged to reach constantly 83mph.