History of changes

This is a list of changes made to information in the Water Ski section of this World Wide Web site. This is a good place to check to see what's new and worth looking at!

• 27-April-1999 New Water Ski canada Web site
• 27-April-1999 New Ontario Water Ski Association Web site
• 30-Mar-1999 Version 99a2 of video jump program available.
• 3-Dec-1998 LLEWELLYN WINS IN ABU DHABI
• 21-Nov-1998 1998 Barefoot National Results Posted
• 5-Nov-1998 Quite a few updates to the new Barefooting section thanks to Shannahgn Magee
• 13-Oct-1998 WSC General Information added
• 7-Oct-1998 New barefoot page under construction
• 23-Sept-1998 1998 Canadian Nationals Results from Dartmouth, NS August 20-23, 1998 (in more detail now)
• 14-Sept-1998 1998 Canadian Nationals Results from Dartmouth, NS August 20-23, 1998
• 13-Sept-1998 LLEWELLYN & GRAHAM WIN WORLD CUP TITLES
• 30-Aug-1998 Extreme Barefoot and Wakeboard Nationals
• 21-Aug-1998 1998 Classic Nationals update from Dartmouth NS
• 20-Aug-1998 1998 Classic Nationals update from Dartmouth NS
• 18-Aug-1998 Updates to Water Ski Canada Press Releases
• 8-Jul-1998 New VIDJMP program available
• 2-Jul-1998 Updates to Saskatchewan site. Unfortunate vandalism incidents.
• 5-apr-1998 Jaret soars to a win!
• 1-apr-1998 Wakeboard update to the Water Ski Canada Press Release area
• 25-March-1998 Removed Bond Lake from existance... sigh...
• 17-dec-1997 Reminder to water skiers Re: Olympics
• 15-Dec-1997 Palm Beach Watersports (home of Joel McClintock Training Sessions) added to the links section.
• 3-Dec-1997 Canadian Skier Rankings List for 1997 now online.
• 2-Dec-1997 Urgent request from Water Ski Canada regarding Water Skiing and the Olympics. Please READ THE LETTER
• 17-Nov-1997 Updates to the Water Ski Canada backwash press release area
• 23-Oct-1997 Updates to the links section including the link to Behind the Boat, CMMA, etc.
• 21-Oct-1997 Water Ski Canada press release about JEREMY KOVAK'S GOLD AT WORLD WAKEBOARD CHAMPIONSHIPS added to Backwash Press release area
• 16-oct-1997 The 10th World Water Ski Racing Championships will run from 19 - 26 October in Sydney and Newcastle Australia.
• 14-Oct-1997 Updated some links in the links section
• 22-Sept-1997 Water Ski Canada Press releases about Canadians at the Worlds in the Backwash area
• 18-Sept-1997 Water Ski Canada Press release about Canadians at the Worlds in the Backwash area
• 16-Sept-1997 Water Ski Canada Press release about Canadians at the Worlds in the Backwash area
• 12-Sept-1997 The EXTREME WORLD CUP which was held in Orangeville, Ontario on July 26-27 will be aired on TSN as follows:
  September 19th 0:00* midnight (that's late Thursday night or early Friday morning!)
  September 19th 13:30*
  September 22nd 17:00*
  *All times are Eastern Standard Time See awesome wakeboarding, slalom and jumping.. DON'T MISS IT!
• 9-Sept-1997 Added plain text version of Nationals results to the Water Ski Canada Results section
• 3-Sept-1997 Added version 97D% of vidjmp to the software section
• 20-Aug-1997 Canadian National Championships information begins in the Backwash Water Ski Canada Press Release Area (note, I corrected this broken link 22-Aug-97... typo... sorry. )
• 19-Aug-1997 Eastern, Western and Atlantic results in the results section
• 17-Aug-1997 Updates to Water Ski Canada Press release (Backwash) section
• 13-Aug-1997 Added Canada Games Water Ski Canada press releases to the Backwash section
• 7-Aug-1997 Added World Extreme event to the Ontario events section.
• 5-Aug-1997 Updates to the Water Ski Canada Backwash press release area and also to the results section where a link to the worlds has been added.
• 30-July-1997 Version vj97d3 added to Video Jump software area.
• 30-jul-1997 Fixed the SkiScore area... sorry about that... I had a ZIP extension on an EXE file and an EXE extension on a ZIP file.
• 28-Jul-1997 Added new version of SkiScore and a new version of the Video Jump program to the software area
• 27-jun-1997 Added Ski Nautique Haute Garonne in France to the links section
• 27-jun-1997 New Water Ski Canada press release, KOVAK TAKES GOLD AT X GAMES. See the Water Ski canada Press Release section
• 22-jun-1997 New Water Ski Canada press release, GRAHAM TAKES U.S. OPEN SLALOM TITLE, in Water Ski Canada Press Release area
• 13-Jun-1997 A "final+" version of VIDJMP program placed in the software section.
• 12-jun-1997 added O'Brien to the links section
• 10-June-1997 major updates to the Classic and Wakeboard tournament schedules for Ontario. Click here to see the events schedule
• 10-Jun-1997 Added Barton Wakeboards site to the links section
• 8-Jun-1997 Water SKi Canada Press release. CANADIAN WAKEBOARDER SETS NEW WORLD RECORD AT WORLD CUP. See Press release section.
• 3-Jun-1997 New version of SkiScore (5.00) added to the software section.
• 30-May-1997 Corrected Ski-Tek link.
• 28-May-1997 Added SKI-TEK Industries to the links section
• 27-May-1997 Ooops... fixed the typo in the link to the cable ski area. Good thing I have a note sent to myself every night of access failures. Sorry about that folks!! At least I can tell there _IS_ traffic on the site! I got error messages for one typo that was only up there for 5 minutes yesterday!!! tj
• 26-May-1997 Updated the Nova Scotia Events page
• 26-May-1997 Updated The Maherajah Water Ski address in the links section
• 26-May-1997 The South Central Collegiate Water Ski Conference added to the Links section
• 26-May-1997 Water Ski Canada Press Release Graham Wins Masters
• Added a new Cable Ski Section. with an announcement of the first US cable ski site and an upcoming tournament.
• 22-May-1997 FInally got the tentative list fo SUmmer 1997 tournaments and events up in the Ontario Events section
• 20-May-1997 GOOD NEWS regarding the proposed regulation changes for small vessels. Click here to view the latest press releases
• 7-May-1997 New test version of the VIDJMP exe file (version VJ97C5.EXE) in the VIDJMP software section
• 23-Apr-1997 Added Ski For All to the Ontario Clubs section
• 1-May-1997 Ongoing updates to the VIDJMP software section.
• 21-April-1997 VERY IMPORTANT Proposed Changes To Small Vessel Regulations that will affect water skiing. Please see Water Ski Canada News and announcements section
• 16-April-1997 Bob Corson's VIDJMP video jump software is now available in the software section.
• Change to Welland Water Ski CLub info in Ontario Clubs Information
• 27-Mar-1997 New 1996 Canadian Rankings List
• 22-Mar-1997 Many Updates to the Ontario Events section especially barefoot events.
• 17-Mar-1997 Updates to the Press Releases and Announcements in the Water Ski Canada section including two upcoming barefoot tournaments in Florida that Canadians might be interested in attending!
• 17-Mar-1997 Added a link to the Nova Scotia WWW site in the Nova Scotia Section. Thanks Tim Nikolai!
• 10-Mar-1997 Added more Barefoot info to the Ontario Section including clinics and tournament info. More to come!!!
• 10-Mar-1997 Finally updated events calendar in the Ontario section including barefoot tournaments. More to come.
• 7-Mar-1997 Updated events calendar in the Water Ski Canada section
• 7-Mar-1997 Updated the Saskatchewan section including events, president info, club info and the application form.
• 23-Feb-1997 Added Moomba Masters link to links section.
• 23-Feb-1997 Added Shawnigan Pro Watersports to the B.C. Shops and Schools section
• 30-Jan-1997 Added a link for Eckerd College Waterski Team Web Page to thelinks section.
• 26-Jan-1997 Added Accuski (timers and speed controls) and Ron Scarpa's barefoot school to the links section
• 22-Jan-1997 Added 1996 Canadian Barefoot Rankings to the Canadian Results section.
• 21-Jan-1997 Added a link for Mastercraft Boats to thelinks section.
• 21-Jan-1997 Snow or water skiing? Check out the Pictures section for more details...
• 21-Jan-1997 Added a couple of new images of Colin Ellis to the pictures section
• 21-Jan-1997 Finished adding the Spring 1996 issue of the Ontario Water Skier.
• 16-Jan-1997 Updated the Ontario Events section to add the Bond Lake Ice Breaker Barefoot "Boom Tricks" tournament.
• 16-Jan-1997 Added a link for Surf Paradise (Newmarket, Burlington) and an entry in the Ontario Retail section.
• 15-Jan-1997 Two corrections to section 11 of the 1995/1996 Rule Bookwhere images for the slalom handle and the jump handle were not linked in properly. Also correction to this history list where I failed to end a link properly. Sorry.
• 12-Jan-1997 Updated the Ontario Events section to start 1997. Boat show is on Jan 11-19. Stop by the OWSA booth and renew.
• 6-Jan-1997 Jim Clunie and Norm Lucas are "stuck" in Australia in that horrible warm weather. Norm writes: "I was also wondering if you could put a blip on the home page under Jim's name at the Mulwala Water ski club in Australia. Our phone # here is 61-357-441552 in Mulwala, New South Wales. This would be greatly appreciated."
• 1-Jan-1997 Changed the pointer to the new Ski Brendella Online address in the links section.
• 20-Dec-1996 Added 79K image of the Pan AM Champions to the images section!
• 10-Dec-1996 Added Galveston Ski School and Goode Skis to the Links section
• 4-Dec-1996 A new Ski School added to the Links section
• 31-Nov-1996 New issue of The Ontario Water Skier now available. Another one in the works as well.
• 23-Oct-96 Refresh of the Kneeboard section provided by Josh Perkins.
• 23-Oct-96 Added Stoke City Wakeboard site to the Links section. Look in the Clubs, Schools, Individual's Pages area.
• I got a strange request today. A congratulation request from Greg Sutton and friends to Chris Sutton
• 08-Sep-1996 Added a new Kneeboard section thanks to Josh R Perkins. (Note: yesterday this said Wakeboard due to brain fade)
• 29-Aug-1996 Added Lake Country Water Ski Club to the bottom of the BC Waterski Clubs list. Note that they have their own WWW site as well.
• 28-Aug-1996 1996 Canadian National results added to the Results section
• 27-Aug-1996 New version of SkiScore software (version 4.01) placed in the Software Area
• 21-Aug-1996 Went through rule book and fixed where quote marks were coming out weird (eg. skier's was showing as skierŐs)
• 21-Aug-1996 Slalom Challenge Final (Aug 24) info added to the "events" section of the Ontario section
• 14-Aug-1996 Added "Press Release" section to Water Ski Canada section
• 14-Aug-1996 Canadian Wakeboard Nationals info added to the "events" section of the Ontario section
• 14-Aug-1996 Added Jr. Worlds Results to the results section
• 14-Aug-1996 Added link for Ski Brendella to the links section.
• 27-Jun-1996 Updated the "mailto" links for Water Ski Magazine in the links section
• 13-Jun-1996 Location change for Ontario Championships Moved from Welland to Safari Lake. See the Ontario Events section for more information.
• ??-Jun-1996 A few updates to the FAQ section
• Updates to the Saskatchewan section including events schedules, presidents message, and an SWSA application form.
• 29-May-1996 Vern Oberg provided some US Masters pictures of Canadian skiers that are now on display in the images section
• 29-May-1996 Ontario Water Ski Association provided their latest Water Ski Handbook full of useful information including all sorts of tournament info.
• 28-May-1996 More updates to Backwash provided by Water SKi Canada. News from the pro tour (stops 1 and 2) and from the US Masters.
• Update to the events section to indicate the CANCELLATION of the Canadian Masters.
• 12-Apr-1996 Nova Scotia Events Section updated with the tentative tournament list.
• 04-Apr-1996 BC Events Section updated with the tentative tournament list.
• 31-Mar-1996 Went through the Canadian Rankings files and turned them into tables. They look much better now!
• 22-Mar-1996 Check the Water Ski Canada area for lots of new information. Backwas has started to come online and the 1995 Canadian rankings are int he results section. Many familiar names from all across Canada in there!!! Also there are a lot of new events listed.
• 19.Mar-1996 New links added in the Services section of the Commercial/Retail for the Mooseweb and the new Jump page. I also added the jump page to the Traditional Section
• 11-Mar-1996 re-organized the Retail/Commercial links section. Frankly, I found _I_ couldn't find the darn links I was looking for on my own WWW pages so there had to be something wrong with the way I had things organized. I think this is a little easier to get at things now...
• 7-Mar-1996 Added Yves footin pics to the images section.
• 7-Mar-1996 More updates to the Ontario Water Skier Back Issue section. Added new issues. Watch for more. OWSA has provieded a number of back issues and I am converting them as time permits!!!
• 6-Mar-1996 Events updates from Water Ski Canada and more details in the Ontario Section. Check out both National and Ontario in the events section.
• 6-Mar-1996 New ad for BTS Timing System with new models available and new prices.
• 28-Feb-1996 Added Perfect Pass Speed Control link to the Commercial/Retail section.
• 27-Feb-1996 BIG update to the Ontario Water Skier Back Issue section. Including the addition of the cover graphics and the back indices to 1992.
• 26-Feb-1996 New info coming for Canadian Wakeboard section
• 26-Feb-1996 Added Marine Graphics link to the retail/commercial section.
• 23-Feb-1996 Added an Ontario Water Skier section to the Ontario section for back issues of the publication of the OWSA.
• 30-Jan-1996 Added Shep's WWW page to the Other Info section
• 30-Jan-1996 Update to the Jr Worlds to add a new US training site.
• 30-Jan-1996 Added URL to the US and Other retail section.
• 29-Jan-1996 Added note to Water Ski Canada section indicating WSC intention to make Backwash available on the WWW!!! Watch for it...
• 29-Jan-1996 Jr. Worlds Information added to the Events section.
• 26-Jan-1996 Many updates. Ontario retail, Ontario Events, National Events, And added the home page Events catagory.
• 26-Jan-1996 Updated Water Ski Canada and British Columbia sections to reflect Peter Person's move to President of Water Ski Canada.
• 09-Jan-1996 Updated World Waterski Info to add links (present and future) to a UK information source!
• 06-Jan-1996 Updated and added information for Bond Lake Ski Club and Bond Lake Pro Shop in the Ontario Clubs and Retail respectively.
• 12-Dec-1995 Added more images to the Pictures section
• 25-Oct-1995 Added site maps to the Ontario section.
• 25-Oct-1995 Finally got the some more images added to the Waterski Pictures section. Thanks to Jim Dibella (creator of the BTS timing system) for these pics!
• 9-Oct-1995 Noticed and cleaned up the Western Canada results pages which were impossible to read due to bad alignment! Oops...
• 9-Oct-1995 Added a pointer to Weymouth (Dorset England) ski info page.
• 9-Oct-1995 Updates to the Frequently Asked Questions Area (FAQ)
• 8-Oct-1995 Water Skiers With Disabilities added to the home page.
• 3-Oct-1995 Added link to International Water Ski Federation Home Page
• 17-Sep-1995 1995 Worlds Final Day Results France wins, USA second, Canada third!
• 17-Sep-1995 New Images! Thanks to Bare!
• 16-Sep-1995 1995 Worlds September 16th report, First Canadian Medal!!
• 15-Sep-1995 1995/1996 Rule Book is 99% there now. I finally got the inline diagrams (rules 11,14,15,17) as well as the 4 diagrams at the end.
• 15-Sep-1995 1995 Worlds reports from Water Ski Canada and also links to AWSA reports and results.
• 11-Sep-1995 1995/1996 Rule Book is nearly complete. Just a few diagrams and the updates from Water Ski Canada to go!
• 11-Sep-1995 Added new results to the results section
• 31-Aug-1995 Added gelcoat repair tips to the FAQ section
• 29-Aug-1995 Added Rerun Sports to manufacturer/mailorder contact list.
• 28-Aug-1995 Added Tige boats to the retail/commercial section.
• 25-Aug-1995 Added new results section for posting tournament results. Send me numbers!
• 25-Aug-1995 1995/1996 Rule Book really coming along. Just the Apendices to go. Even a picture in the slalom section!
• 23-Aug-1995 US WWW Site new home!
• 22-Aug-1995 1995/1996 Rule Book continues to be converted to HTML format. Up to about rule 11 now...
• 21-Aug-1995 Added link to the Correct Craft page in the Retail/Commercial section.
• 16-Aug-1995 Many updates to the FAQ section
• 5-July-1995 Water Ski Canada has made available the 1995/1996 Rule Book for traditional water skiing. (my conversion to HTML will be ongoing)
• 29-Jun-1995 New software, Skiscore, added to ski software page.
• 28-Jun-1995 Added ad for BTS Timing System to the Retail US and Other section.
• 28-Jun-1995 Added pointer to Alberta Goods and Services www page by Wizard Ski Club
• 28-Jun-1995 Added a manufacturer/mailorder phone/address contact list to Retail page.
• 27-Jun-1995 Lots of new Manitoba Information about clubs and tournaments.
• 25-Jun-1995 Added a new FAQ about Drivetrain Comparison's from Bill Walker. Great Comparison of Inboard vs Outboard vs Jet etc...
• 23-Jun-1995 Water Skis Etc information moved slightly into a seperate file.
• 23-Jun-1995 Ontario retail restructured.
• 21-Jun-1995 Greatly expanded list of BC water ski clubs
• 19-Jun-1995 New information for Northwest Territories!
• 15-Jun-1995 Link to Norway added to the world section.
• 14-Jun-1995 Added Adaptive Program section to Ontario Organizations
• 09-Jun-1995 Updated Ontario Clubs manually from OWSA directory
• 09-Jun-1995 Re-arranged Other and Retail to make it easier to find things
• 09-Jun-1995 Added Wizard Ski software to new Water Ski Software page
• 09-Jun-1995 Added a Water Ski Software section to the main page
• 09-Jun-1995 Pointed Wakeboard link to Wakeboard magazine page
• 09-Jun-1995 Pointed Barefoot link to US barefoot page
• 29-May-1995 Finally got these history links working right...
• 29-May-1995 Added a start to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• 27-May-1995 Added Lake Como Italy to World Water Skiing area. Split world area up by country.
• 19-May-1995 Added link to Wizard WWW page to Alberta Organizations.
• 12-May-1995 Added manufacturer/retail/commercial to Other
• 27-Apr-1995 Added Wizard Water Ski Club to Alberta Organizations
• 26-Apr-1995 Added Vancouver Water Ski Club to B.C. Organizations
• 12-Feb-1995 Added email addr for Waterski and Wakeboarding mag. to OTHER
• 27-Jan-1995 Added RETAIL sectio (Water Skiis Etc...) to Ont. organizations.
• 5-Jan-1995 Corrected spelling. Thanks sis' in Alberta!
• 20-Dec-1994 Added show skiing and winterizing tips to Other section.
• 19-Dec-1994 Added a section on World Water Skiing for non Canadain/U.S. info
• 16-Dec-1994 Changes to traditional info, corrected jump info. Thanks Cathy McNair, B.C.
• 6-Dec-1994 Added this History section.
• 5-Dec-1994 Added information to Alberta section provided by Eric Lehr.
• 1-Dec-1994 Added large quantities of information to Ontario section. Added some information to each provincial area. Information provided by Ontario Water Ski Association (most) and Water Ski Canada.