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 Tommy BartlettTommy Bartlett bio
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 Tom Dorwin bio
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 Skip GilkersonSkip Gilkerson learned to water ski at the age of six. At the end of his first ride, he was on one ski. He was barefooting by the time he reached 11 years old. Since then he has skied professionally for 31 years at venues including Sea World, Water Circus, Cypress Gardens and Tommy Bartlett's. Skip had been ranked as high as second in the world for slalom skiing.
Skip served as show director for Tommy Bartlett's for 23 years. He is a member of the Water Ski Hall of Fame and has an exhibit at the Water Ski Museum and Hall of Fame in Winter Haven, Florida. Skip is a charter member of the Wisconsin Water Ski Federation Hall of Fame.
He is affectionately known as "Mr. Show Skiing," and has proudly judged every national tournament since its inception 1975. The outstanding male skier MVP award given at the national tournament bears his namesake.
Skip Gilkerson served as the Director of Promotional Activities for MasterCraft Boat Company and as president of the National Show Ski Association. |
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Allen BubolzAllen has been around water skiing since 1953. His leadership and organizational skills were instrumental in getting the Wisconsin Water Ski Federation off the ground.
Some of Allen's accomplishments include: show skier, tournament skiers, rated 3-event boat driver, senior tournament judge, managed United States team for five years, and United States team selection chairman.
In addition to being one of the founders of the WWSF, Allen served on the board of directors from 1960 to 1979, two of those years as president and another two as AWSA councilperson. In 1973, he was the Technical Director for the World Water Ski Championships in Bogota, Columbia. He also served as a United States judge at the Olympic Water Ski Demonstrations in Kiel, Germany. |
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 Ole EvinrudeAt the turn of the century, America was a land where hopes and dreams came true. It was a time when things began to move. Henry Ford's Model "T" was motoring down the road when Ole Evinrude thought of motoring a boat across a lake.
Fascinated with the internal combustion engine, he spent his spare time working on one that could attached to the stern of a rowboat. Ole bought an ignition coil fro his prototype motor from Milwaukee machine shop owner Stephen F. Briggs, who was an inventor in his own right, having build a two-cycle engine in 1906 while still in college.
Ole Evinrude and Stephen Briggs founded OMC two decades later. |
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 Carl KiekhaferCarl started his outboard manufacturing business in 1939 at Cedarburg, Wisconsin and sold it to Brunswick Corporation in 1961 in a multi-million dollar stock transaction.
The best way to describe Carl is a man of imagination, an engineering genius and a gifted and energetic pioneer constantly search for better ways to do things. His legendary foresight and intuition served not only the company he founded, but stimulated the growth of recreational boating as well. He set high standards for himself and for those associated with him. The beneficiaries of that dedication were the consumers who purchased the product he built and the dealers who proudly represented him.
Carl dedicated himself and his business to quality long before the term quality became a corporate buzzword. Kiekhafer Marine produced Mercury outboard engines, and Brunswick continues to produce Mercury outboards today. |
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