Patent ID: 6705906
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: B63B,B63H,F02B,F02M

Abstract:
A personal watercraft comprising:a water jet pump including an outlet port, the water jet pump pressurizing and accelerating water taken in from outside of the watercraft and ejecting the water from the outlet port to propel the watercraft as a reaction of the ejecting water; a multi-cylinder engine having a crankshaft extending along the longitudinal direction of the watercraft; and an air box so disposed as to overlie a cylinder head of the engine and to cover substantially at least ignition plugs attached to the cylinder head; wherein the air box is disposed over the cylinder head so as to deviate from the cylinder head toward an exhaust pipe disposed on an opposite side of an intake port of the engine with respect to the crankshaft and so as not to overlie the intake port and its vicinity.