Roger Lincoln
Strong Credentials
Traveling 2 to 3 thousand miles around Britain on a personal watercraft in 10 days or less takes professional vision, the right attitude, a steely determination, experience and someone with character, to say the least – meet Roger Lincoln!
A Strong History
Water Baby to World Beater?”
At the age of 5 years old, Roger began waterskiing. At this time, the equipment available could be considered primitive. Roger wasn’t towed behind a combustion engine watercraft or even other forms of mechanically produced power.
Roger learnt the basics of waterskiing by being towed on a homemade plywood ski-board, tied to rope and pulled by his father running across the mud flats, in the shallows of the incoming tide off Whitstable, Kent.
These early experiences with the sea captured Roger’s imagination and inspired his love of watersports, forming the foundations of his inspiration for this project.
In the following decades, Roger Lincoln became a proficient waterski racer. In 1983 at the age of 15, competing against adults, he won the British National Formula 4 Championships. He remembers the manufacturers of the day vying for the privilege of supplying the next winning watercraft hull for the coming season. Roger Lincoln went on to be selected for the British waterski racing team in Formula’s 1 and 2, and won may national and international races.
Roger continues to enjoy waterskiing and jet-skiing every year. It is this passion that has inspired him to take on a challenging watersports endeavor.
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“A World Record in the Making!”
The Right Credentials
Roger Lincoln’s Grandfather
Roger’s Grandfather George was the captain of a daily passenger paddle steamer from Gravesend to Margate. The paddle steamer ferried passengers from the Thames Estuary along the north Kent coast every day in the summer of the early 1900s. This legacy has inspired Roger Lincoln to achieve the next milestone in coastal navigation.
Rogers Lincoln’s Father
Roger’s Father Keith was a key organiser and successful competitor of the first cross channel waterski races to France and back. These early endeavors set the foundations for organizing the first ever world water-ski racing championships in 1979. Roger Lincoln’s Father Keith continued his involvement organizing waterski events and was one of the founders and longest serving committee members of the Whitstable Waterski Club.
