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First successful ride on a dual-ski hydrofoil waterski - 1960
World First Snapshot
- First Title
- First successful ride on a dual-ski hydrofoil waterski
- Discipline
Dual Ski Foiling- Class
- Open / Overall
- Measured Result
- Successful first flight / ride - (First only)
- Date
- 1960-01-01 (year precision)
- Location
- United States, United States
- First Achieved By
- Frazier Sinclair
World First Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
Ruckus, along with the foiling community at large, has given this glorious achievement the official Foiling Freaks nod for Dual Ski Foiling.
May it inspire better evidence, cleaner runs, bigger claims, and even louder hooting from the crowd.
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The Epic Record Run
Tony Klarich's stand-up hydrofoil history states that Walter Woodward developed hydrofoils for water skiers in early 1960 and that Frazier Sinclair was the test pilot and first person credited with successfully flying them.
Rules of the Beast
First documented successful flight/ride of a towed dual-ski hydrofoil waterski.
How This Got the Nod
Year and attribution are stated in historical accounts; exact date not found.