Show Off Old Water Ski Photos!

Where did you find that Adam? Boy is that old! Dennis looks to be about 10 (40 now) and yeah my hair looks brown..still long tho.

Our club, The West Shore Water Ski Club used to do a icebreaker every year. Always cold and windy. We would hit Lake Erie as close to April Fools day as we could. Always good for tv and newspaper coverage.

Man I got loads of these kind of old pictures. Just need to figure out how to scan them in.

john

1981 Show Nationals

1984 Show Nationals (Aqua Jays Boats)

Pix with Oxleys and Augensens with my Dads first '72 Nautique

SkierOx and me in the late 70's

Wis Dells

My Dad learned to Barefoot at age 42

Me and my Dad (I think these are the only pictures of him and I barefooting together.)

Here are photos of my Dads '82 in Jan '83. The boat now lives in Georgia down the street from my sister!

skierbrant wrote: 1981 Show Nationals

This appears to be the first photographic evidence Ive seen of the famous "Show Nautique" (far right). Very cool! A friend of ours had one- I was never sure if it was legit or not.

man great pics there!!!
mine old pic will show my dad´s boat outboard with a 2strokes jonsohn engine 175hp from the 80´s ha that sucker liked the gas..and oil of course. I had it till 95..
first nautique I ever saw and ride behind actually it, was the one I own now. I remember falling in love with it the first time I saw it that was around 96. Good for me I was able to buy it a couple of years later after a few attemps....
prior to the wakeborading boom only a few skiers had MC or SN. With the raise of this new sport people got interested and by mid 90´s people started buying this kinda boats....
My nautique despite being +17 years, still is a head turner...

not so old pics about 7 years ago at the podium after wining one of the locar championship stops held in Cordoba

I always love kapla's pictures too...

M3Fan wrote: Is it just me or does that old-school boom just scream death?

My dad made that boom from hollow aluminum pipe to teach us kids how to ski. Never pulled alot of weight until about 1979 when we started trying to barefoot. The first time we tried to barefoot with the boom, it bent. We put a steal pipe inside and it worked great after that! "No one ever got injured during the use of this product"!!! Ha Ha

Honestly, I am not sure. If I had to guess, I would have to say Brett Wing. We had an old barefoot book of his and it had a similar type of looking boom. He used to live for skiing just like I am and he was always working on something with boats and skiing!

Tim,
Was it you that posted that old picture of a 50's wood with a boom on it? I'll do a search but using the proper key word will be a challenge!!!

EDIT: That was easier than I thought!! Here's the picture.

TRBenj wrote: Good memory, Pete!

Sometimes!

Yeah, that's pretty cool. So surfing behind the boat isn't as new as I thought.

I love the old school "waist" floaters people wore back then. Are those kind of the equivalent of the comp vests of today?

LOL!

My wife and her boat, the 68 im restoring for her. She had a cool boat, I was still skiing behind our old geneva with a 60hp johnson back then, till dad upgraded to the 115 and then finally on to the 75 mustang in the early 80s

so it looks as if someone at toms ski school started the boom for training ,even though they stuck it in the back of the boat,i was only 1 year old when that pic was taken,so cool