Chasing Canguro
Five years ago, Alex Luther didn’t know how to waterski. But things change.
On July 5, the 36-year-old Australian grandson of world-record-setting waterskier Harry Luther successfully replicated his grandfather’s route along the Mediterranean coast from Tangiers, Morocco, to Pula, Croatia. The 10-day, 2,219-mile ski included stops at 22 ports in seven countries.
Harry discovered the sport in the 1960s, and (Harry was a delivery driver for Pepsi), in 1970 he skied 3,144 miles of the Mediterranean in 10 days as a “warm-up” for another race. Hardly a warm-up, it became the world record for marathon waterskiing.
