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Towed by a wooden Wolverine
My grandfather, G.B. McLeod III, has always been a really special person in my life. I have always looked up to him and he has helped to give me my love of the water. One of my best memories from when I was little is when I used to spend a week with my grandparents on their sailboat each summer. I remember how Granddaddy made me learn to row the dinghy before he’d let me use the engine. I have since learned the wisdom in this. The story I want to tell is about my grandfather when he was just a couple of years older than I am now. His family had a cottage at Wrightsville Beach, and he used to spend most of his summers there. When he was about 19 in the early 1940s, he had seen someone waterskiing for the first time in the sound. He and his friends decided it looked like fun, so he bought the a pair of skies, the second pair of water skies in Wrightsville Beach at the time. He and his friends used a 12-foot wooden Wolverine boat with a 22-hp motor and taught themselves how to ski. My grandfather is 81 years old now. The last time he went skiing was when he was 70 years old. George Dawkins, |
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