Jet Ski inventor with ties to Parker recounts adventures - Parker Pioneer
He attended the Lake Havasu Jet Ski Championships in 2013, which happened to fall on his birthday. He was taken by boat, waved to fans, and over a loudspeaker the announcer said, “Today is Clay Jacobson’s birthday, the inventor of the Jet Ski. “It was surprising and fun,” Jacobson said. In his book, “Jet Ski Inventor Autobiography Clayton Jacobson II,” Jacobson had a footnote: “Raised in the introduction, ego is defined as ‘appropriate self worth. ’ This is a good thing, mine is about the size of my Ford F250 pickup truck. In the 1960s, Jacobson was in the banking world, made money, had fun, lived in Malibu and loved building and racing motorcycles in Southern California. He said he liked to socialize and network, “No matter what, every Thursday evening with the Manhattan Beach crew, we’d have dinner, drink and talk. He is the inventor of the personal watercraft—it was called jet ski (before Kawasaki copyrighted the name) or wet bike. Jacobson was in Parker recently and sat down to talk about different aspects of his life. He lives in Australia and likes to come home to Parker to visit relatives and friends on the Parker Strip. Source: www.parkerpioneer.net
