Personal watercraft

An intake pipe arrangement for a personal watercraft, the personal watercraft including a watercraft body, a saddle ride type seat at a roughly central portion of the watercraft body, cover form side walls extending downwards from left and right lower edges of the seat, an engine mounted on a lower side of the seat with an axis of a crankshaft thereof directed in a front-rear direction of the watercraft body, and a plurality of cylinders provided in the engine and arranged in the front-rear direction of the watercraft body, said intake pipe arrangement comprising:

• intake pipes in communication with the cylinders of the engine, respectively, said intake pipes extending from a side surface of the engine,
• wherein each of said intake pipes is bent toward the front direction of the watercraft body along one of said side walls on the lower side of said seat, so that inlets of said intake pipes open toward the front direction of the watercraft body.

An intake pipe arrangement for a personal watercraft, the personal watercraft including a watercraft body, a saddle ride type seat at a roughly central portion of the watercraft body, cover form side walls extending downwards from left and right lower edges of the seat, an engine mounted on a lower side of the seat with an axis of a crankshaft thereof directed in a front-rear direction of the watercraft body, and a plurality of cylinders provided in the engine and arranged in the front-rear direction of the watercraft body, said intake pipe arrangement comprising:

• intake pipes in communication with the cylinders of the engine, respectively, said intake pipes extending from a side surface of the engine,
• wherein each of said intake pipes is bent along one of said side walls on the lower side of said seat, and wherein said inlets of said intake pipes are arranged in a zigzag manner so that said inlets are arranged densely, and said intake pipes are surrounded by an air box disposed between the engine and the one side wall.