[Steveo]

Back in the 40's my parents and their friends would put on impromptu ski shows in front of the Weirs. Trick skiing, multiple skiers, grabbing bottles off the top of a piling, etc. But one time they got a brilliant idea! Why wouldn't it be possible to ski behind a low flying aircraft. So they collected about 500 feet of ski rope, a seaplane (which back then you could rent in the Weirs) and sent my uncle out to try it. The seaplane could fly at about 60 mph so they all thought no problem. So the seaplane starts out, my uncle gets up right away and waits for the plane to get airborne. These guys were not the brightest in Physics and the effects of friction. They did not know that when the plane's pontoons finally leave the water's heavy friction it literally "jumps" in the air. They say my uncle did at least a dozen cartwheels before he stopped and was lucky he didn't get his arms pulled out of their sockets.