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[[Image:|center|300px|Shoot-the-chutes, Dreamland, Coney Island, N.Y.]]
Shoot-the-Chutes is an amusement ride consisting of a flat-bottomed boat that slides down a ramp or inside a flume into a lagoon. Paul Boyton and Thomas Polk invented the earliest example in 1895 for Sea Lion Park at Coney Island. In the original ride (pictured) the flat bottom boat was pulled up the ramp by cable and turned around on a small turntable to be ready for the next load of passengers who arrived at the top by elevator. The bottom of the ramp curved upwards, causing the boat to skip across the water until it came to a stop where it was then guided to a landing by an onboard boatman.
