Patent attributes
A personal watercraft having an air-water separating structure to communicate the outside of a body of the watercraft with an interior of an engine room, which allows the layout of the interior of an engine room to be designed flexibly, including a body 1 including a hull 2 and a deck 3 covering the hull 2 from above, a water jet pump P configured to eject rearward water sucked from a water intake 17 provided on a bottom surface of the hull 2, an engine room 8 that is formed at a front portion of the body 1 and is configured to accommodate an engine E for driving the water jet pump P, and an engine hood 16 covering a deck opening formed on a region of the deck that is located above the engine room 8, wherein the engine hood 16 is equipped with an air-water separating structure 33 having upper air passages 27 and 28 through which a front space formed in a front portion in the engine hood 16 and outside of the body communicate with each other and a lower air passage 29 through which the front space in the engine hood 16 and a region at a predetermined depth position in an interior of the engine room 8 communicate with each other.
