Sep. 3—Spectators gathered at Hells Gate Marina on Saturday perked up as soon as they heard a jet boat roar down the Snake River. The telltale rumble signaled a racing team headed to the finish line.

The Thunder on the Snake Jet Boat Race will be the pinnacle race in the 2015 USA Jet River Racing Series to make place on August 28 through 30 in Lewiston. Teams from four countries including Canada, ...

Boats and their crews do the seemingly impossible in jet boat races. They zoom down stretches of river--sometimes across white water sections--at 80-140 mph, generating boat-sized wakes and passing ...

When Grady White is in the passenger seat of a jet boat, he’s trusting his younger brother with his life. It’s the greatest feeling in the world, he said — even though nerves cause him to throw up ...

Jim Vantress, director of the world championship jet-boat races starting Saturday on local rivers, forgot to duck one time while racing his boat on the Rogue River in Oregon. But he'll always remember ...

The roar and excitement of powerboat racing returned Saturday to the Lehigh River at Adams Island in Allentown. Racers from at least six states, all members of the Cocktail Class Wooden Boat Racing ...