The Kwahamot Water Ski Club began during the city's 1960s Aqua Days celebration, when local resident Rod Greil told the Jaycees, who had hired professional skiers to perform, that he and his friends could put on an equally good show. With help from Bob Henderson, Greil gathered skiers from family, friends, and summer residents, and family pleasure boats served as tow and rescue boats. The first show at Bradley Park emphasized entertainment and featured specialty acts; despite strong wind, rough water, and crude equipment, it succeeded and led to the formation of a permanent ski club. Tomahawk Boat Mfg. Co. offered a towboat rig if the group would ski regularly, and Kurt Winter, son of co-founder Frank Winter, drove a boat for several years. Officially organized in 1961 with thirteen members, the club took the name Kwahamot, Tomahawk spelled backward. Over the years, members won many competitions and became one of Tomahawk's assets. Other boats seen on the rivers through the years included Wm. H Bradley's boat train, built on barges with a dining car and sleeping cars to entertain friends on the Somo and Wisconsin Rivers, wannigans that served as floating cook shanties for logging camps, and boat races at Bradley Park in the late 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s.