Don't Get Stuck! 5 Steps For Shallow Water: The Watercraft Journal, EP. 65 

25 year rider. All of these steps are great info!! I have made every mistake listed and learned from that. This is great for rookie and novice riders! Great informative vid Mr. Shaw!

I literally just subbed the other day and have already found a dozen videos that gave me tips like this that I can actually use. I don’t know anyone else with a watercraft so I have to learn everything for myself. Thank you Kevin.

Very informative. I'm a new rider and your lesson was a great help for me to keep my PWC from being destroyed before I can really have fun with it. Great job!

As a newbie I appreciate these kinda vids.

The audio is glitchy on this vid

This was great. I am getting my first sea doo next week and I totally pictured myself pulling up on the beach like you said not to. Thank you 😁👊

Thank you so much! Very helpful video.

Great tips, Kevin. Thanks!

This was a great informational video!

Great video and information thank you.

I am new to PWC's, great video very informative keep em coming Thanks.

Got stuck yesterday on a mud flat riding the back bays of Wildwood, NJ. You'd think "No Man's Land Island" would be somewhat of a warning - especially when the tide is going out. Sat for 8 hours waiting for the tide to return. Found it best to turn the PWC around and back out nose first as dragging backward wasn't going to happen (840 lbs). 50 or so yards later, I was free. I remembered this video to bounce the craft to clear it. I did it from the bow though as I didn't remember bow or stern. Thanks for your video.

@7:57 - My 6 year old daughter drove a PWC we rented a few weeks ago with me sitting behind her just like yours is. I had never seen anyone else do it before until now :)

Excellent content as always. Sucking up debris is probably the #1 thing new owners do to break their skis.

Excellent Vlog,

Excellent vid, thank you

Informative vid,,,,,this is good stuff for newbies.

Incredibly useful information,,, thank you 😊

Great video, it helped that you have the exact same Ski as mine!

Thank you. Really good advice. Especially on cleaning out the jet pump! Now that I know this, hopefully I will not need it :-)

Nice Sea Doo! I just picked the same one up last week! I love it

Been on the water a LOT, mostly ocean sailing and I finally popped my run aground cherry on my mom's brand new jet ski the other day. Lake Champlain is a fickle beast and is mostly comprised of black shale on the bottom making depth changes very difficult to see. I consult the chart whenever I go out and was sure there was 6 feet of water between two island. Oops. I was at idle and tooling along at 4mph (idle speed) and then it happened. Scrape. Followed by what sounded like some pebbles in the jetpump. The thing shut off on it's own accord, my heart sank. I pushed it off the tiny muddy / loose rock shoal I found myself off and restarted it. It ran poorly for a few seconds. Turned it off and when I restarted it whatever was in there cleared and it ran perfectly on the run back to the lift. No damage from a visual inspection, not even a scrape in the hull. Guess I was lucky.

Thanks for the very informative info

Good information.. thanks

Very helpful for us new pwc people!

Thanks need this!

Yep, second time out on my WakePro 230, I sucked up seaweed into the pump. The water was too cold to dive in and pull the weed back through the grate. Beaching the ski (it wouldn’t go more than 3 knots !) it was a huge struggle to lean it over , to expose the ride plate, then pull the weeds out. Stressful!

I'm brand new, everyone I have talked too says for beaching, come in hot and shut it down in time ( 6 or 7 ft of water. ) and coast in. Accidental shallow stuff is as per your advice. I have a minkota on mine aswell so I can use that for spot lock or just the shallow stuff.

Tried to get to the Knik glacier back in 2005. Water was too silty to see an inch deep. Impossible to stay in the channel. We grounded half a dozen times each. The water was about 33 degrees. Chill blained feet broken intake grates and new impellers. We turned around before we got to the glacier. Wasnt fun but it was an expensive lesson.

Good advice to give, Barkley lake gets low this time of year and you better know where you are.

Awsome advice

Nice info!

I took off in about 1.5 feet of water and straight away my seadoo started shuddering. Went forward and reverse, shaked then had to swim down and couldn't feel anything. Put it back on the trailer and saw a seashell stuck in the impeller blades. Got it out at home but still what a pain. You're fun ride is over before it begins. I hope there is no damage. $$$$$

Kevin at 6:00 you get up into the ski in less than 2 feet of water and turn it on revving up the engine in reverse and forward. Won't that just suck up more debris or sand off the bottom?

Hey buddy soon i will be gett3 my brand new 2021 seadoo 300 at the dealer they told me if i wanted to change my plastic wear ring to stainless wear ring MY question to you is SHOULD i change my plastic wear ring now OR wait till i used it wear it out AND then change for stainless IM going to use my machine 6 months in florida in salt water and 6 months fresh

Kevin, After I go riding my seadoo should I unscrew the drain plugs ? I was told by a friend to unscrew the 2 plugs for a little while , is that to let the inside dry? whats the purpose of unscrewing the drain plugs ?

thanks

I saw a Brown Water indicated on my display. Can you give advise on that?

I am new at this but would it be better if you just anchored it in the water off the beach?

How you recover your jetski if low tide miscalculated left you stranded 5m away from water? Sure, wait for high tide to come, hahah. But if not possible to wait, than what can you do. Something unconventional? A tarp under to provide a lide? Dig a channel? BTW. love the vid.

Would something in the intake like small sticks and leaves and pine needles, etc, cause it to over heat a little bit?? I took mine out other day and the lake had a few patches of trash and debris. I avoided and went around the majority of it. And it ran great would I docked it for the day. I went to take it out yesterday and hit the throttle and it wouldn’t move. Just vibrated. So I got off it and reached underneath the intake grate and I didn’t feel anything.. and didn’t see anything in the jet..out the back. So I got back on. And idled out to deeper water and just kept revving it up. Until it finally would go. And I stopped and put it in reverse and gunned it back and forth a few times and then same in forward. And it seemed to be just fine. But then I noticed a few minutes later when I was going fast that the temp was up to about 199°F and normally it only gets up to about 195°.. so I idled a bit and it came back down to 188° which is the normal temp for it. So I’m just wondering if something is still up in it and causing it to overheat more then it normally does? Thanks for any info!

Some debris just wont come out and the cavitation never ends. Two examples for me this year already is a piece of tree branch just large enough to fit through the grate. Second a plastic chain link. The impeller notched a grove into it and it would not let go. Both times had to bring it home and both times used a wire coat hanger made into a hook and got it out. ANY suggestions how to dislodge while on the water? I tried rocking and all that stuff.

18 year owner here. Yes I agree with it ALL

Any news on the 2021 GP SVHO??

I Just bought a lake house. Private dock with access to the lake through a channel. The channel is about 2ft deep. Owner says he gets pontoons and jet skis through. He said the pontoons have to be trimmed up and go slow and he said jet ski basically full throttle it from the dock to the lake or vice versa. Said when it’s on plane it will make It through fine. What’s your thoughts on this?

do you need to do these steps if you have idf?

First time seeing the new seadoo in its natural environment

Correct way to do things in shallows.

If you pull from the back when leaving the beach why not do the same when going in??

What happens if I got stuck and gave it throttle and sucked up sand?

Do jetski's suck fish into the engines?

step 6: buy YAMAHA

Nothing sucks more than having something lodged in between the impeller and housing causing engine not to turn over

Great video, except for a the hiccups in the audio.

Maybe redo this video since the audio is kinda messy.

Great videos but the music in the background while you are explaining your pro tips is unbearable!

Jet skis don't have "props"

If you don’t run your jet ski up on the beach you shouldn’t have one

That music....🤮... Why???

Do giving the steps on how to write RC do And hit the chest water and then sparingly up to his knees What a joke