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The Jet Ski 400 or JS400 was the first mass-produced stand-up
Stand-up PWC

Stand-up PWC are a type of personal watercraft available since the 1970s. They have a pivoting handlepole and standing tray area that requires the operator to stand while riding instead of sitting....
 personal water craft
Personal water craft

A personal water craft is a recreational watercraft that the rider sits or stands on, rather than inside of, as in a boat. Models have an inboard engine driving a pump jet that has a screw-shaped impeller to create thrust for propulsion and steering....
 produced by Kawasaki
Kawasaki Heavy Industries

is an international corporation based in Japan. It has headquarters in both Chuo-ku, Kobe, Kobe and Minato, Tokyo.The company is named after its founder Shozo Kawasaki and has no connection with the city of Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Kanagawa....
. All Jet Ski
Jet ski

Jet Ski is the brand name of personal watercraft manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The name, however, has become a genericized trademark for any type of personal watercraft....
 400's utilized 398cc two-cylinder two-stroke engine
Engine

An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input.An engine whose purpose is to produce kinetic energy output from a fuel is called a Wiktionary:prime mover; alternatively, a motor is a device which produces kinetic energy from a preprocessed "fuel" ....
s adapted from Kawasaki's snowmobile
Snowmobile

A snowmobile, also known in some places as a snowmachine, is a land vehicle for travel on snow that is commonly propelled by a continuous track or tracks at the rear and steered by skis at the front....
 line. The Jet Ski 400 was produced in at least two colour schemes. The earlier versions were a pale lime green while the later models were bright yellow with black decals. The earliest models of the Jet Ski 400 had hand-laid fibreglass hulls and wooden bulkhead
Bulkhead

Bulkhead may refer to:* Bulkhead , a form of coastal management akin to a seawall* Bulkhead : a wall within the hull of a ship, vehicle, or container...
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The Jet Ski 400 or JS400 was the first mass-produced stand-up
Stand-up PWC

Stand-up PWC are a type of personal watercraft available since the 1970s. They have a pivoting handlepole and standing tray area that requires the operator to stand while riding instead of sitting....
 personal water craft
Personal water craft

A personal water craft is a recreational watercraft that the rider sits or stands on, rather than inside of, as in a boat. Models have an inboard engine driving a pump jet that has a screw-shaped impeller to create thrust for propulsion and steering....
 produced by Kawasaki
Kawasaki Heavy Industries

is an international corporation based in Japan. It has headquarters in both Chuo-ku, Kobe, Kobe and Minato, Tokyo.The company is named after its founder Shozo Kawasaki and has no connection with the city of Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Kanagawa....
. All Jet Ski
Jet ski

Jet Ski is the brand name of personal watercraft manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The name, however, has become a genericized trademark for any type of personal watercraft....
 400's utilized 398cc two-cylinder two-stroke engine
Engine

An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input.An engine whose purpose is to produce kinetic energy output from a fuel is called a Wiktionary:prime mover; alternatively, a motor is a device which produces kinetic energy from a preprocessed "fuel" ....
s adapted from Kawasaki's snowmobile
Snowmobile

A snowmobile, also known in some places as a snowmachine, is a land vehicle for travel on snow that is commonly propelled by a continuous track or tracks at the rear and steered by skis at the front....
 line. The Jet Ski 400 was produced in at least two colour schemes. The earlier versions were a pale lime green while the later models were bright yellow with black decals. The earliest models of the Jet Ski 400 had hand-laid fibreglass hulls and wooden bulkhead
Bulkhead

Bulkhead may refer to:* Bulkhead , a form of coastal management akin to a seawall* Bulkhead : a wall within the hull of a ship, vehicle, or container...
s. The Jet Ski 400 is the craft which sparked the standup watercraft's explosive popularity, which lasted through the 1980s and early 1990s.

After 1974 the hulls were mass produced using SMC which is the same method used in the mass production of small boats. The jet ski 400 used an axial flow jet pump while the later JS550 models use a mixed flow pump.

In 1982, Kawasaki released the JS550
JS550

The 550 is a personal watercraft made by Kawasaki Heavy Industries. It was first built in 1982 and has been very popular. The 550 shares many of the same parts with the JS440 and JS300 including the fiberglass hull, hood and handle pole....
 based upon the JS440's hull. Many of the parts between these JS models are interchangeable
Interchangeable parts

Interchangeable parts are components of any device designed to specifications which ensure that they will fit within any device of the same type....
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