Review: Sea-Doo Spark, the jet ski that might save the industry

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Sea-Doo is starting to turn that around, though, with the release of the Spark. Half the price, half the weight and half the power of a regular midrange jet ski, the Spark delivers 90 percent of the fun of a more expensive PWC in a way that's much more accessible and attractive to newcomers … and burns nearly ten times less fuel than the big boys. If it's newbies the Spark is hoping to attract, then we've got a total newbie on the team to test it. The completely inexperienced Loz Blain and the moderately experienced Noel McKeegan take to the water to see how she goes. Rejoice, dear readers, that Loz didn't fit into a wetsuit, and is thus not depicted in skin tight clothing.</p> <ul class="gallery-preview"> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#1"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/sea-doo-spark-review-0.jpg" title="The Sea-Doo Spark. (Photo: Loz Blain/Gizmag.com)" alt="The Sea-Doo Spark. (Photo: Loz Blain/Gizmag.com)"/> </a> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#2"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/sea-doo-spark-review-1.jpg" title="Noel McKeegan launches the Sea-Doo Spark (Photo: Loz Blain/Gizmag.com)" alt="Noel McKeegan launches the Sea-Doo Spark (Photo: Loz Blain/Gizmag.com)"/> </a> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#3"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/sea-doo-spark-review-2.jpg" title="The Sea-Doo Spark, 3-seater (Photo: Loz Blain/Gizmag.com)" alt="The Sea-Doo Spark, 3-seater (Photo: Loz Blain/Gizmag.com)"/> </a> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#4"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_tn/sea-doo-spark-review-3.jpg" title="The Sea-Doo Spark, 2-seater. Photo: Loz Blain" alt="The Sea-Doo Spark, 2-seater. Photo: Loz Blain"/> </a> </ul> <p>I can hardly stand up today. Several major muscle groups are whining indignantly that they expect several months' notice if they're expected to actually do something again in the future. Other areas are bruised and abraded, I feel like I've been hit by a truck. On top of that, I've sunburned myself to a deep, angry red – particularly on my face, which would make me look deeply embarrassed if it wasn't for the pasty, white raccoon goggles where my sunnies sat.</p> <p>Yesterday was my first jet ski test, and such are the tribulations of trying new things. What right have I to be doing a jet ski review without ever having ridden one before, you ask? Excellent question.</p> <p>In the mid-1990s, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.pwia.org/assets/cabinets/Cabinet474/History-PWC.pdf" target="_blank">US Personal Watercraft (PWC) sales sat around 200,000 per year</a>. These days, you're looking at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.boatingindustry.com/top-stories/2014/05/01/sparking-a-revival/" target="_blank">less than 50,000</a>, according to BoatingIndustry.com. Even before the 2008 global financial crisis, they were in the 80,000 a year range. The simple fact is, they're nowhere near as popular as they used to be.</p> <p>Part of that could come down to social factors. Irresponsible jet ski riders gave the devices a bad rap in the late 90s and 2000s, and many areas enacted new laws restricting where and how they could be used. But another part of the story has to be the direction of their development – bigger, faster, heavier, more horsepower, more expensive.</p> <p>For a device that's essentially a toy, and serves very little practical purpose unless you happen to conveniently live across a lake from your local milk bar, the cost is hard to justify. A powerful jet ski with a trailer can easily set you back upwards of US$20,000 – and with well over 200 horsepower on tap from gigantic engines that tend to run flat-out most of the time, they guzzle petrol at a truly frightening rate as well. Not to mention the sheer size of the things – you're giving up a whole large car spot in your garage to store one.</p> <p>Which leads us to why Gizmag's spindly editor Noel and I, two motorcyclists, are out here testing a jet ski. Because Sea-Doo has developed a new PWC that sells for around half the price of a regular jet ski. One that looks like it might turn the whole industry's fortunes around, and one that's targeted at people who would never have thought of getting into the market before – and that, right there, is us.</p> <p><div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#36" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/sea-doo-spark-review-35@2x.jpg" alt=""> </a> </div> </p> <p>The Spark certainly stands out in a Sea-Doo showroom. Where the other skis are giant, hulking things, the Spark is petite and friendly-looking; you can lift the front up with one hand, easily. Where the others are sleek, shiny and clearly very expensive, the Spark looks cheap and cheerful in its matt plastic finish. Where the others are dark and brooding, in glossy piano black with flashes of dangerous red, the Sparks are orange, yellow, and even pink, with a fun looking camo pattern.</p> <p>With 130-odd horsepower being the previous entry-level floor, the Spark has launched with 60 horses, or an optional 90-horsepower High Output version. Mind you, where the 130-horsepower GTI130 weighs a huge 359 kg (791 lbs) dry, the Spark is a minuscule 184 kg. Which means in power-to-weight terms, the High Output spark actually boogies a bit harder.</p> <p><div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#2" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/sea-doo-spark-review-1@2x.jpg" alt=""> </a> </div> </p> <p>And so, we took two Sparks with us to the beautiful Pykes Creek Reservoir about an hour west of Melbourne – one orange 90-horsepower 3-seater optioned up with a waterproof storage bin and Sea-doo's exclusive Intelligent Brake/Reverse system (iBR), and one bright pink 60-horsepower 2-seater that had been boosted to 110 horses.</p> <p>Powering the Spark up, you're put into a soft Touring mode, which you immediately switch out for all-out Sports mode. Why would you have a default low-power mode on a ski like this? I dunno. From there, it's straight to full throttle and the ski is rearing up out of the water as it propels you forward.</p> <p><div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#14" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/sea-doo-spark-review-13@2x.jpg" alt=""> </a> </div> </p> <p>As a motorcyclist, the closest thing I could compare it to would be a high powered quad bike for the water, but more dynamic, and much nicer to fall off of. Steering the Spark hard requires you to throw your body into the turn, gas off to bury the front end a little, then yank the bars around and get back hard on the gas.</p> <p>Getting more and more aggressive as my confidence grew, I started finding ways to break the back end loose and almost drift the thing sideways. This was hilarious fun. A few times, I threw the front end down so hard that I felt the Spark pivoting on its nose and skating backwards, jet entirely out of the water, before digging in and powering out again. This kind of stuff was the best fun I had all day.</p> <p>My top speed was 81 km/h (50 mph), the more aerodynamic Noel managed 84, and the Sparks felt fast and powerful on the water, at least until a guy on a 250-horsepower Yamaha Waverunner flew past, demonstrating about a 40 km/h (25 mph) top speed advantage. But he didn't seem to be able to chuck his ski sideways or spin it on its nose like we could, so screw that guy.</p> <p><div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#20" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/sea-doo-spark-review-19@2x.jpg" alt=""> </a> </div> </p> <p>Would those kinds of moves be possible on something bigger and heavier? I dunno, but Melbourne Sea-Doo's Sam Mosca tells me this kind of riding is what makes the Spark stand out as such a fun machine, even against its muscular rivals. Larger skis can turn on a dime, but they dig in and carve corners much more precisely, while the featherweight spark can be a lot livelier at the rear end.</p> <p><div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#26" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/sea-doo-spark-review-25@2x.jpg" alt=""> </a> </div> </p> <p>That's not to say the Spark's steering isn't precise – it takes some effort to bring the back end around, and unless you're really throwing your weight about it'll grab the water and carve a turn very quickly and confidently. I even found myself sticking a knee out through force of habit (even though I've never had a knee down on a motorcycle, to my eternal shame).</p> <p>Sea-Doo is the only manufacturer that currently makes an "intelligent brake/reverse" system for its PWCs, and my test unit had one fitted. With the right bar trigger being the throttle, the left was the brake, and it stopped the thing with a fair bit of force … enough to chuck me off the side into the drink once when I wasn't set up and prepared. At slow speeds, holding the brake lever in and applying throttle engaged a handy reverse gear that gave me extra options closer to the shore. We had a pretty clear day on the lake and I didn't need the brakes very often – but I could see it being a very handy extra lever to have if there were more boats or swimmers competing for space on the water.</p> <p><div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#11" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/sea-doo-spark-review-10@2x.jpg" alt=""> </a> </div> </p> <p>The light weight of the Spark did seem to make it a touch slappy when coming down from small jumps – not really an issue on our smooth lake test, but I did find myself wondering if I wouldn't appreciate a chubbier ski to take some of the hits for me if I was out in the surf.</p> <p>As somebody who's never spent any time on a jet ski before, one thing was instantly apparent. While being out there alone is plenty of fun, things got a whole lot more entertaining when Noel put the camera down and joined me on the other Spark.</p> <p>With two riders out there, you can chase and roost each other with spray from a hard turn. You can rip along together, the other rider's motion adding to your own considerable sense of speed, and most importantly, you can stop and yell "WHOA DUDE, 'DYA SEE THAT" a lot.</p> <p><div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#6" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/sea-doo-spark-review-5@2x.jpg" alt=""> </a> </div> </p> <p>I can't see myself getting into jet ski riding as a solo hobby, but add in a buddy and it's a lot more fun – not to mention a great way to get out and see parts of the country you might not visit otherwise. Even if you're tearing up the water and making an utter cretin of yourself in the eyes of anyone with a fishing pole.</p> <p>The Spark is the lightest ski on the market by a country mile. You can use it to tow a wakeboard, or carry one or two passengers, but it's probably strongest as a solo fun machine. It's genuinely half the price of a midrange ski, meaning you can now buy two, stick 'em on a double trailer, and make it a social outing.</p> <p>It's by far the most fuel efficient PWC you can buy, burning just 7.3 liters (1.9 gal) of fuel per hour on the 60-horsepower version, or 9 liters (2.4 gal) per hour on the High Output version. If that sounds like decent economy, consider this: the 250-horsepower Sea-Doo RXT-X gulps down a horrific 76 liters (20 gal) per hour, and the Yamaha FX Cruiser guzzles a devastating 80(!) (21 gal). That's enough to run a family car for a week or two, frittered away in 60 minutes. We filled the Sparks' 30-litre (7.9 gal) tanks, and rode all afternoon until my hands, arms, shoulders, thighs and neck could take no more, and didn't get the fuel gauges below halfway.</p> <p><div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#34" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/sea-doo-spark-review-33@2x.jpg" alt=""> </a> </div> </p> <p>The Spark has some absolutely huge advantages over the rest of the market. It's vastly cheaper to own and run. It's smaller to store. The whole hull unbolts from the deck in 10 minutes, making panels easy to replace, and giving you access to the whole motor for maintenance.</p> <p>The big boys rough it up when it comes to top speed, but it still accelerates hard, and its light weight and handling bring crazy shenanigans within easy reach. It's exactly the kind of machine that could re-invigorate stagnant sales and bring fresh blood into a market whose average customer was 47 years old last year. And it looks like it's working – new and experienced owners alike are getting in on the action and snapping them up. As I'm returning my Spark to Mosca, he tells me "we were expecting people to buy the Spark, then move up to something more powerful – but that's just not happening. Nobody's trading them in, they're keeping them."</p> <p><div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/seadoo-sea-doo-spark-review/34832/pictures#22" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/sea-doo-spark-review-21@2x.jpg" alt=""> </a> </div> </p> <p>The high output Spark, judged in a vacuum as I'm judging it, is a wickedly fun vehicle that has the potential to turn things around in the PWC segment. Starting at US$4,999 ($7,800 in Australia), it's much better priced as a recreational vehicle, and it's certainly got Yamaha and Kawasaki scrambling to work out how to compete with it. Mind you, that price is for the basic 60 hp model without a trailer, and everything else adds substantially to the price.</p> <p>Now pass the Dencorub, I'm utterly banjaxed. For my next trick, I'm planning to test ride <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.gizmag.com/belassi-b3r-sport-worlds-most-powerful-pwc-jet-ski/34342/" target="_blank">the most powerful jet ski on the market</a>. 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I have only one thing to say about them, "pull" , taken from skeet shooting. </p> <span class="strong">grtbluyonder</span> </li> <li> <p>Sold on the Spark! I used to have two Sea Doo's out of high school 15 years ago and each cost around the $5,000 range. I went looking at buying PWCs a few years ago and found they had become rather unafforable, kind of hard for the every man to justify $10,000+ per ski for a fun toy when you have a dozen other bills to spend $ on. After learning about the Sparks low price and seeing one in person this is a total throwback PWC priced like we're back in the 90's in my opinion, lightweight and great on gas just like my old ones. Since there is no competition anywhere close at this price, and these Skis look awesome it's not a question of if but when I'll buy one. The price is so low you can buy one ski cash and finance the other for probably $100 a month, or put no money down and just finance two of them at $200 a month. Either option is justifiable. Great review on this one Gizmag!</p> <span class="strong">Machina</span> </li> <li> <p>I wish they would make these thing feed off standard 20 pound propane tanks.</p> <span class="strong">Slowburn</span> </li> <li> <p>I see quite a contradiction in praising the low cost simple 60 hp version and then only test 90 and 110 hp version with full special costly options ...</p> <span class="strong">Deres</span> </li> <li> <p>The entry level Yamaha is about $1,000 more and 10 times the craft. Yamaha and Kawasaki scrambling to come up with something competitive? Hardly! These things are pure junk and are targeted at people with zero water experience. You get what you pay for here, garbage. They are unstable with 2 people and darn right dangerous with 3. If price is an issue by a much more reliable and superior used Yamaha. Guarantee if you do a comparison you will not be towing the Spark home.</p> <span class="strong">Rehab</span> </li> <li> <p>or how 'bout a high-output electric model? When we had these things at the lake we only ever rode 'em for 30 minutes at a time. Seems like recreation would be a great platform for electric.</p> <span class="strong">Milton</span> </li> <li> <p>Great revue. Very comprehensive.</p> <p>However, I can't, (never could), understand how this device can use 10 times less fuel than the opposition.</p> <p>Will somebody please explain what is really meant by this expression?</p> <p>It seems to me that it's just another way of saying that fuel consumption is 1 tenth of the opposition, and if that's the case, why not say so.</p> <p>I don't believe that mathematically or scientifically there is any such thing as "10 times less" of anything!!!</p> <span class="strong">wifisun</span> </li> <li> <p>About time sanity prevailed. When we conducted the first PWC test in Australian Motorcycle News many moons ago, I think the most powerful was the ill-fated Suzuki Wet Bike with around 80 hp. Once again, the Yanks have a lot to answer for with the 'bigger is better' attitude. Give me something that you can easily man-handle, with sufficient power to get the job done with enough in reserve for fun and not so big that it needs its own garage. BTW Loz, you should be able to get that knee down on these puppies....</p> <span class="strong">Martin Hone</span> </li> <li> <p>Loz in a wetsuit, something I don't want to see, Thanks :-)</p> <span class="strong">Bill Bennett</span> </li> <li> <p>The jet-ski fad as passed. Too big, too powerful, too expensive to buy, too expensive to operate. One could buy a nice used boat for the whole family to enjoy. But the big reason sales are down is that the market is saturated. Everyone that wanted a jet-ski has one. And after one does a few 70mph passes, then what? </p> <span class="strong">Dave Merriam</span> </li> <li> <p>I hate these things. They are noise polluters, sea polluters and air polluters. They are driven by jerks that just want to show off. There you are enjoying a quiet swim in a beautiful ocean getting away from it all, then suddenly a jerk shows up on one of these ghastly contraptions, generating the stink of exhaust gases and unburnt hydrocarbons, plus the raucous din. Why do we even allow them?</p> <span class="strong">GeoffG</span> </li> <li> <p>I think the real problem is the fact that not many have the money to spend on such an expensive toy. While they fill a unique niche, their performance stinks compared to a small boat with the same horsepower.</p> <span class="strong">Bob</span> </li> <li> <p>This isn't anything new, folks - this is SeaDoo getting back to its roots. In their mid-90's heyday, jetski's were water-borne go-karts - a lightweight, nimble, reasonably fast toy that was cheap compared to a boat, yet a blast to ride because of all the tricks you could do - precisely <em>because</em> it was lightweight.</p> <p>Go figure, SeaDoo finally remembered that while going flat out fast is nice, that's more of a boat thing; for jetskis it's always more fun doing bunny hops, jumping wakes and spinning out, especially with one or more friends on their own jetskis. You can only do that if they're lightweight enough to easily manhandle, cheap enough for everyone to afford, and preferably built well enough to take a beating so they aren't in for repairs every other weekend.</p> <span class="strong">Xeiran</span> </li> <li> <p>This is a Jet Ski, a stand up PWC, that started the PWC craze. ironically trademarked by Kawasaki and now only made by Yamaha: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150803144714/http://www.yamahawaverunners.com/performance/superjet" rel="nofollow">http://www.yamahawaverunners.com/performance/superjet</a> They are infinitely more fun, cheaper, and a pair will sit side by side on a trailer or back of a pickup. They are light enough to be carted down any beach and launched. </p> <p>The first sit down PWC were called Waverunners, first popularized by Yamaha and trademarked. Jet Ski stand up, requiring balance like skiing Waverunners sit down, non-balancing.</p> <span class="strong">Thomas Clarke</span> </li> <li> <p>Could be that people who ride around on jet skis are seen as d-bags. I don't think I have ever heard of anyone complaining about sailboats but PWC, they are the bane of the waterways. </p> <span class="strong">Rann Xeroxx</span> </li> <li> <p>"Jet Ski" (proper noun) is indeed trademarked by Kawasaki. "jet ski" (common noun) is a generic term used to refer to all personal water craft.</p> <p>Technically, Water Bikes were the first sit-down PWC - and the first PWC, period - using a jet of water for propulsion and a single ski in front to steer, hence the name "Jet Ski". Created by independent inventor Clayton Jacobson in 1968, Kawasaki was the first company to create a market for them, but had to fight Jacobson for the rights to the name, which was finally settled in court in 1992. By that point, most folks who already owned a PWC continued calling it a jet ski, regardless of who made it or whether it was a sit down or stand up type.</p> <p>The "SuperJet" stand-up style of PWC is still the lightest (306 lb) and arguably best for doing tricks, but never had same popularity as the lightweight (406 lb) sit-down versions that flourished in the mid-90's like the Waverunner and SeaDoo. Today's PWC are all basically high priced miniature racing boats, not the fun nimble toys they used to be - and that's what the Spark aims to recapture.</p> <span class="strong">Xeiran</span> </li> <li> <p>Thats why i prefer the 800s of the early 2000s and stand ups of the 90s.. Light and nimble. We(my sister and mother) have some big kawasaki 1400 something or another and a big SeaDoo and they are just too hard to have fun on. I need something that can roll over if im being too aggressive</p> <span class="strong">canderso</span> </li> <li> <p>I would have to definitely disagree with the writer who believes they are junk. We have owned ours for almost a year and they are a blast. I had a choice of 2 sparks or one bigger ski and chose the sparks. When other ski owners are struggling to launch at low tide or pull out we have no problem. We use them all day on 8 gallons when the bigger skis are using 3 times as much. Hitting 50mph is fast enough for me and my son has hit 55. He maneuvers his as well as anyone I see around us with the big expensive ones. They are well made and durable, have plenty of pep and maneuver very well. For their size and power they out perform many that are a lot more expensive. I have lived in Florida my whole life and experienced lots of different water crafts so I do have an idea. Sorry, Rehab, but I will be towing these home for a long time!</p> <span class="strong">RobM</span> </li> <li> <p>We have 4 sparks on a private yacht. 75 hours each. Hope to god that Yamaha comes out with their version of the spark soon because THE SPARKS ARE JUNK. At 25 hours, the impeller wear rings started breaking. They now have to be replaced roughly every 25 hours @ a cost of $150 each including labor. At 50 hours, the handle bars started breaking. And although Seadoo claims to have a recall on the bars, they will not honor this recall if your Seadoo happens to be on board a yacht spending the winter in the Bahamas. This is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS and we're lucky nobody has been injured thus far. ALL 4 HANDLEBARS SNAPPED OFF AT @ 50 HOURS! And to add further insult, the replacement bars do not appear to be designed any differently. My guess is that we'll be replacing those EVERY 50 HOURS from this point forward. The machine is very unstable with 2 adults. It has been so poorly designed, it's not even funny. Great concept but TERRIBLE execution. I'm sure Yamaha will produce a far superior unit. Take my advice and WAIT until you can get a Yamaha. </p> <span class="strong">Bobby Mcalister</span> </li> <li> <p>We have put over 50 hours on ours without a problem. No handle bar or ring problems. Ours are also garage kept. We run them mostly in salt water but they are well flushed and rinsed after each use. We spent a little more and had 1 port installed that allowed us to spray a lubricant on hard to reach places to protect from salt water and another port that allows us to put a lubricant on the inside of the engine. The Sparks are a lot smaller than most and I agree that 2 riders can be unstable if not careful. Their lightness is one of their big features. 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