Shoot-the-Chutes

Shoot-the-Chutes is an amusement ride consisting of a flat-bottomed boat that slides down a flume into a lagoon. The bottom of the flume curves upwards, causing the boat to skip across the water until it comes to a stop. Paul Boyton and Thomas Polk invented the earliest example in 1895 for Sea Lion Park at Coney Island.

While the ride is largely obsolete, an operating modern reproduction, The Pittsburg [sic] Plunge is currently in operation at Kennywood. Modern log flumes work on similar principles.

External links

• Film of Shoot-the-Chutes from the Library of Congress
• Another film of Shoot-the-Chutes from the Library of Congress