I skied in Northern Ireland on a public river there were 6 buoys and I went round them at 34mph then 36mph, was the 1st time I'd ever seen buoys, (am decent freeskier nothing more). Told my wife this is easy, when we get back to England we'll go to a proper club, shorten it up and go for the world record. Tried that, got half way out to buoy one and realised I'd been on a novice course (though didn't know what that was at the time).
For a couple of weeks I was living the dream though, actually turned up at the club thinking it was game on and i'd be moving to Florida!