Great Greased Watermelon Grab

I shot some video yesterday at Upper Keys Sailing Club. I only have one heat because I was on a team and participated in the other heats. Don't try this with fiberglass boats!

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That looks like SO much fun. We have to figure out how to do that here at Put-in-Bay.

The layout of your waterfront up there at PIB presents a challenge for figuring out a way to do this. It's a lot of silly fun, especially when teams start trying to pirate each other.

Love it! Wish I had a couple of waves to do this with this Saturday. What was the watermelon pen made with?

AWESOME! FAMILY FUN at its best. I can't even get my dad to sit on my catamaran

The melon patch is a mesh raft anchored out. Keeps the melons from floating all over the place.

When you are dealing with Waves, there is always a way. Where we don't have a beach, we can use an anchored powerboat that people can come up alongside to dump watermelons and switch crews. Or an anchored raft.

make it really exciting.... anchor up the boats and sail the watermellon to the boats!