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.
