Pictures by James Duncan and Bill Heaney
Jet skis are far from flavour of the month – or even the hour – on Loch Lomond and other leisure and pleasure spots at this time of year.
Sometimes, however, their popularity takes a boost, like this week when a teenager managed to stop an empty runaway boat going round and round in circles on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.
A video filmed on Wednesday shows the moment 17-year-old Brady Procon jumped from a jet ski onto the moving boat and cut its engine.
Rich Bono, who captured the video, said he later learned that the boat’s operator, a sailing instructor, had reached into the water to pick up a tennis ball used for a lesson, when one of the students’ sailboats tipped over.
The sailboat’s mast struck the motor boat’s throttle, sending the instructor overboard and the boat into a spiral.
Brady, who is joining the US Navy in the autumn, told WMUR-TV the experience had been both scary and fun.
“I’d do it again,” he said.
Over the weekend on Loch Lomond there were plenty of jet-skiers and paddle boarders having a great time on the loch enjoying the superb weather which lasted all day on Saturday in the Loch Lomond National Park.
Jet skiers enjoying the day on Loch Lomond on Saturday.