[upthesaukee]

...which is the last time I have been waterskiing, when I wanted to try my luck with slalom skiing, I would drop the ski by Dad's dock, and my mom or wife would swim out and get the ski. If we were out on the lake, away from the dock, Mom or my wife or some other adult, would don a vest, and go in the water with me. We would start off close to shore, make a loop around and drop a ski near the adult who would the retrieve the ski and wait to be picked up after a little skiing. Water had to be warm, or it was skiing with two skis.