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27/08/2007: "FIRST BOAT ........ water skiing after diving"

I'm aged about 20, not enough money for both a car and a boat, so I settled for the boat. My dear and late father paid for half.

I chose a clinker-plywood boat. It turned out to be a real dud, although it looked good. We switched to an aluminium Tempest after this.

(Traveling at full speed through any wave conditions we managed to punch the sharp corners of our seats through the hull, much to the amazement of the boat builders).

Here we were at Bundeena, near Cronulla on the southern end of Sydney, water skiing. That's Lennie McLeod at the rear. I'm pulling back on the throttle. John Magill has fallen off his ski (not shown).

Picture courtesy: Richard J. Swansborough