PERSONAL WATERCRAFT

摘要

To provide a personal watercraft such that the stern can be prevented fr om floating up from the surface of water at the time of starting and that the bow can be favorably floated up from the surface of water at the time of planing. A personal watercraft 10 has a structure in which an engine 14 is disposed on the lower side of a deck of a hull 11, a water jet propeller 17 is disposed on the rear side of the engine 14, a jet nozzle 37 for ejecting jet water is disposed on the rear side of the water jet propeller 17, a steering nozzle 18 is supported on the jet nozzle 37 so as to be swingable in the lef t- right direction for determining the jet direction of the jet water ejected from the jet nozzle 37, the axis 35 of the water jet propeller is set with a rearwardly downward gradient at an angle.SLZERO.1, and the bottom surface 25 of a ride plate 24 is set with a rearwardly upward gradient at an angle .SLZERO.2.