The HydroBlade looks like a stripped-back stand-up jet ski from above the water. Below the waterline, though, it has a pair of electric propulsion units good for 16 kW peak output, and a hydrofoil ...

Why am I telling you this story, you ask? Because Kawasaki has an all-new stand-up Jet Ski model, and even I think it'd be a bad idea to hand me the keys to it. Seriously, I'd probably die.

Personal watercraft have a moniker that dates to the 1960s, when Clayton Jacobsen II took his original Jet Ski design to Bombardier for mass production. Early sales ended up being sluggish, resulting ...