More than two decades later it seems a new version of wakeboarding, minus the tow-rope and foot-straps, called "wakesurfing" is beginning to take over. At the forefront of this emerging sport ...

The right tow point—a water-ski pylon or a wakeboard tower—transforms your boat for watersports ... skiers used a lifting ring near the stern of an ­inboard-powered boat to attach a tow rope. Since ...

The death of 15-year-old ballerina Ella Riley Adler, who was struck and killed by an oncoming vessel after she lost hold of a tow-rope while wakeboarding in Florida last week, has brought the ...