Sea-Doo GTX Limited 325 Review: The Most Luxurious Personal Watercraft on Our Floor

The 2026 Sea-Doo® GTX Limited 325 is the most equipped personal watercraft (PWC) on the Power Lodge floor and the most expensive. It is the ST3 touring hull with the supercharged Rotax 1630 ACE turned up to 325 published horsepower, a 10.25-inch touchscreen, a premium audio system, and a hydraulic steering damper. Nine sit in the building, listed from $22,549 to $22,949 as of September 2026.

The one thing to know before you compare it to anything: at this level, horsepower has stopped buying speed. Every flagship here is limited to about 67 mph. The 325 buys acceleration with three people and a full tank aboard, and it buys the confidence to hold a cruising speed when the water stops cooperating.

The second thing to know is a model-year fact worth having before you negotiate. Sea-Doo moved the GTX Limited to 350 horsepower for 2027, listed from $23,849 on its own site. The machines on our floor are the last of the 325s.

What the Sea-Doo GTX Limited 325 is

Sea-Doo’s range divides by hull — Polytec GTI machines for recreation, the fiberglass ST3 for touring, three-up riding, and water with some texture in it. The Limited sits at the top of the ST3 side, above the GTX 170 and the GTX 230.

What “Limited” actually means is worth checking rather than assuming, because the badge has covered different equipment in different years. Sea-Doo’s current Limited page lists a hydraulic steering damper, the 10.25-inch touch display with BRP Connect, a premium audio system with two 50-watt speakers, the ST3 hull, and a large swim platform. It does not itemize the accessory items that people often expect on a flagship — covers, LinQ gear, boarding ladders — so treat those as things to confirm on the specific hull and on the unit sheet rather than as included.

The nine units here are 2026 machines in White Pearl Premium and Teal Metallic. Sea-Doo’s braking system (iBR) and the iDF debris-clearing pump are the brand’s two signature local advantages; because they are not itemized on the Limited page, ask which of them is fitted to the hull you are looking at before you make the comparison against a Yamaha.

Engine	Rotax 1630 ACE, three-cylinder, supercharged
Horsepower	325 hp on the in-stock 2026 units; 350 hp for 2027, published by Sea-Doo
Hull	ST3, fiberglass
Length × width	135.8 in × 49.2 in
Dry weight	849 lb
Seating	3 riders
Fuel capacity	18.5 gal
Storage	26.1 gal
Display	10.25-inch touch display with BRP Connect
Audio	Premium system, two 50-watt speakers
Steering	Hydraulic steering damper
Swim platform	Large platform
Top speed	About 67 mph, limited (jetdrift 2024 chart)
Listed at Power Lodge, September 2026	$22,549–22,949 (9 units, 2026 model year)
MSRP, 2027 model year at 350 hp (Sea-Doo site, September 2026)	From $23,849

Source: sea-doo.brp.com (2027 Limited listing; the in-stock 2026 units are the same ST3 platform at 325 hp). Specs and pricing are the manufacturer's published figures and can change by model year.

Engine and performance: what 325 horsepower is actually for

The 1,630cc Rotax ACE reaches this hull in three tunes — 170 without a supercharger, 230 and 325 with one — and because Sea-Doo publishes its figures, the ladder reads honestly.

Between the 230 and the 325, top speed does not change — both hit the same roughly 67-mph ceiling. What changes is everything below it. Loaded with three adults, a cooler, and fuel, the 325 gets back on plane faster and holds a cruise into a headwind with less throttle. If you ride solo on calm water, you will spend most of the difference and feel little of it.

The supercharger is a real ownership item. It wears on a schedule of its own, and it is thirsty — on an 18.5-gallon tank, hard riding is measured in tens of minutes rather than hours. Higher-octane fuel is standard practice on supercharged Rotax engines; the manual for the specific hull is the place to confirm the requirement.

The hydraulic steering damper is the underrated part of this package. It takes the feedback out of the bars in choppy water, which sounds like a refinement and behaves like a fatigue reducer on a long run outside the passes.

On the water: 849 pounds of composure

The ST3 hull is 135.8 inches long and 849 pounds dry, and both numbers work the same way: worse at the ramp, better everywhere else. This is a machine designed to stay flat and dry when Estero Bay goes to pieces in the afternoon, and it does that job better than anything in the recreation class regardless of badge.

Three riders is a real rating on this hull rather than a technicality, which is the main practical difference between a touring machine and a recreation one. The swim platform is large enough to be used as a platform rather than a step, and the LinQ attachment system Sea-Doo uses across its range is how a cooler rides without straps across the deck.

The 10.25-inch display is the largest screen in the class and the clearest expression of what you are paying for. BRP Connect puts phone-based navigation and music control on it. In Florida sun, screen brightness is the thing to evaluate in person — it is the complaint reviewers most often raise about big PWC displays generally, and a showroom under fluorescent light is not where you learn the answer.

Storage is 26.1 gallons, which is the flagship’s real weakness and a genuine surprise to anyone comparing spec sheets: the cheaper GTI line holds 40.3, and the Yamaha FX hull holds 44.5. You are buying tech, power, and hull, not volume.

What reviewers and owners say

The most quotable sourced assessment of the Limited platform comes from Boating’s test of an earlier 300-horsepower version — a different power figure on the same idea of a machine, and the sentence still describes what this model is trying to be.

boatload of features that enhance the ownership experience whether you’re ripping, cruising, or hanging at the cove

Dedicated current-generation tests of the 325 are harder to come by; several outlets that cover this segment closely were unreachable during this research pass, which is a gap worth naming rather than filling with adjectives.

Owner conversation on Seadooforum about the luxury GTX machines runs in two directions. The practical thread is electronics — people adding depth finders and GPS accessories, and asking about iBR service on high-hour machines. The other is a recurring argument about whether the premium audio is worth its share of the price against a portable speaker in the storage bin. That second one is a legitimate question to ask yourself on the floor, since audio is a significant part of what separates this trim from a GTX 230.

Living with a GTX Limited 325 in Southwest Florida

The most expensive machine on the floor ends every salt or brackish ride the same way as the cheapest: engine flushed, hull and trailer rinsed. The routine is in our salt-water maintenance guide. On this machine, add supercharger service intervals from the manual and pay attention to rinsing around the pump and brake gate, which is where sand and grass collect.

At 849 pounds dry, this is a two-person launch on most days and a firmly matched-tow-vehicle machine. Our trailering and launching guide covers the setup. If the machine will live on a lift rather than a trailer, that changes the calculation on weight entirely and is worth saying out loud when you shop.

Storage between rides deserves more thought at this price than at any other point in the range. A cover, a battery tender, and somewhere out of the afternoon storm are not optional on a machine with this much electronics in it. Our hurricane-season prep guide covers the seasonal version of the same question.

Recalls and known issues

None found for the Sea-Doo GTX Limited in the U.S. Coast Guard recall database as of September 2026, based on a spot-check of uscgboating.org’s recall listing. The BRP entries that do appear in that database are for the Sea-Doo Switch pontoon line, which Power Lodge does not stock.

The database’s manufacturer filter is unreliable, so treat that as a point-in-time check. A PWC carries a HIN rather than a VIN — have the dealer run the specific hull’s HIN for open campaigns before delivery.

Price and what is on the floor

Nine 2026 GTX Limited 325 units are listed between $22,549 and $22,949 as of September 2026, with the feed MSRP for that model year at $22,549. Sea-Doo’s site lists the 2027 GTX Limited — now 350 horsepower — from $23,849.

Here is the honest framing of that gap. The 2027 machine has 25 more horsepower and the same 67-mph limit. What the model-year change actually means for a buyer standing in front of nine 325s is that this hardware is now the outgoing specification, which is a fact to weigh alongside the price rather than a verdict on its own. Freight, prep, and Florida tax, title, and registration are additional on all of it.

How does the GTX Limited 325 compare?

Inside the Sea-Doo line, the number that should give every Limited shopper pause is the GTX 230 at $18,149 as listed. Same hull, same 67 mph, same iBR-and-iDF local advantages, about $4,400 less. What you give up is 95 horsepower of acceleration under load, the premium audio, the hydraulic damper, and the biggest screen. For a lot of buyers that is the smarter machine and the harder sale to argue against. The RXT-X 325 is the other in-house alternative — the same 325 horsepower in a sport-flavored setup, one on the floor at $20,999 as listed.

Across the aisle, the price-matched rival is the Yamaha FX Limited SVHO at $22,199 as listed. It counters with 44.5 gallons of storage against 26.1 — carrying roughly 100 more pounds of dry weight to do it — and gives up a published horsepower figure, which Yamaha does not release, and screen size. The full write-up of that hull is in our FX Cruiser SVHO review. Kawasaki’s Ultra 310X completes the three-way at 310 published horsepower and the biggest fuel tank in the class.

For the class-by-class version of this decision, start at the PWC buyer’s guide.