It's been a decade since more than 140 people crammed behind a single boat in Tasmania to set a world record.
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And that record still stands. In fact, as the 10-year reunion looms, no attempt has even come close.
The 2012 achievement captured the imagination of everyone watching it unfold on Strahan's stunning Macquarie Harbour after several failed attempts.
Undeterred, 154 determined skiers, aged from 12 to mid-70s, crammed shoulder-to-shoulder and tried again to set a record for the most people simultaneously skiing behind a single boat.
In the end, 145 managed to get up and ski for the full nautical mile, smashing their record of 114 set on March 28, 2010.
"We are thrilled; it's a sensational result; it doesn't get any bigger than this," Horsehead Water Ski Club spokesperson Nic Wilson said then.
"That will take some serious beating."
Speaking ahead of the 10-year reunion on February 26, Mr Wilson confirmed no one had come close.
"I think I'll take it to my grave, at least I hope to," he said, laughing.
Leading the two successful record attempts, a small but passionate committee of bold innovators hailed from his water ski club at Lake Barrington.
"Our initial goal was to beat the old record of 100 skiers, and we did that in 2010. We're at the 10th anniversary of the big record," Mr Wilson said.
For its first attempt in 2008, the club had a boom made out of marine plywood to separate the skiers.
"With a committee of 13, we went with 122 skiers only for the initial wooden boom to break in seconds," Mr Wilson said.
They used a section of gas pipe to build another boom, but it broke. In 2009 the club's attempts at the record failed when the boom snapped again.
The club raised significant funds to make a new one, using aluminium pipe, and by the eighth go in 2010, the 23-year-old record of 100 skiers set in Queensland was broken, with 114 skiers.
They did it again only "bigger and better" in 2012, knowing the modified boat they used was about to be sold and it was now or never.
"We started with 154 skiers when we set the record with 145 on behind the boat and lost nine," Mr Wilson said. "Over five years of trying to put it together, there would have been at least 2000 people involved."
The group "had unexpendable energy - we just kept fronting up."
But where did it begin?
"In 1985, a group of us was skiing on the Gordon River as the cruiser with passengers went past, and our boats couldn't catch them," Mr Wilson said.
"David Bennett, skiing beside me, said 'I wonder how many that thing would take'? That was the catalyst."
The owners of the World Heritage Cruises boat agreed to tow the skiers to find out.
Mr Wilson said the logistical challenge was mammoth.
"From the first go with the wooden boom and the second day when we rebuilt it with the gas pipe, they told us the boat can't pull you with that much drag," he said.
"We said you blokes need more grunt and we both smiled and agreed to do it."
Tireless hours followed making wooden skis and going to Lake Barrington in winter with a set of butcher's scales hooked between the ski pole on the boat and skier.
"We dragged people round on all these different skis to try and reduce the amount of drag that skier would create," Mr Wilson said.
"We worked on starting positions and ways of curling up into a tiny ball above the skis, so they flowed through the water with as little resistance as possible.
"We innovated and innovated."
For the second record, only 33 people who skied before came back. The rest was a whole new crew.
The "magic" ski size was 180cm long and 20cm wide.
Each skier had 560mm of space. That's why the ski size became so important.
"Everyone was as snug as sardines in a tin," Mr Wilson said. "We had some clever secret herbs and spices going on to make sure when the ropes got connected, everyone was in the correct position.
"When we set the first record, it took 100 seconds for the skiers to get up, and by the second, we got everybody out in 18 seconds. The feeling when we set the record was ecstatic.
"The amount of support we got was unbelievable; there was so much goodwill that came to us because people wanted us to succeed."
Mr Wilson said since the 2012 record, others had tried to get a challenge together but had not advanced past the planning stage.
- The reunion is at Horsehead Water Ski Club, February 26 at 3 pm. For more information