Wakesurf Attempt Circa 1970

(bigshow) · (bigshow) **Join Date: Feb 2005** 02-21-2012, 7:09 PM

Here's a picture from 1970. Our neighbors from Toledo, Ohio were making surfboards for Cypress Gardens water Ski Shows. We bought one and attempted to surf behind Dad's 16 ft, 55 HP outboard.

That's my oldest sister on the board and Dad's feather weight ski boat in the back ground. I'm in the boat watching and my older brother is driving.

We never pulled off free riding but the surfboard was probably the first thing I road on behind a boat.

(joeshmoe) · (joeshmoe) **Join Date: Jan 2003** 02-22-2012, 4:56 PM

Where's the wake?

(bigshow) · (bigshow) **Join Date: Feb 2005** 02-22-2012, 5:41 PM

That boat barely made a ripple in the water, great for slalom, not so much for surfing. Giving a long board today and the same boat I wonder if it could be done, but I’d never try it behind an out board again, of course.

(leaks) · (leaks) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 02-23-2012, 8:00 AM

Diggin the foam waist belt.

(timmyb) · (timmyb) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 02-27-2012, 12:04 PM

Cool pic! What lake is that? Or is that Maumee?

(bigshow) · (bigshow) **Join Date: Feb 2005** 02-27-2012, 6:49 PM

That was Lake Columbia, a private manmade lake. That's in the Irish Hills area near Jackson, Michigan and near the Michigan International Speedway. My parents bought an empty lot on a largely empty lake in about 1965 or 1966. Now the lake is packed.

(bigshow) · (bigshow) **Join Date: Feb 2005** 02-27-2012, 6:50 PM

Also, that's way too blue to be the Mighty Muddy Maumee

(timmyb) · (timmyb) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 02-29-2012, 7:28 AM

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Originally Posted by bigshow

Also, that's way too blue to be the Mighty Muddy Maumee

Well, I wasn't sure what it looked like way back then since I wasn't even born yet!

LOL! I don't live in that area anymore (lived in Lambertville, MI for awhile).