On a Thursday afternoon, I got a call from Breadshop Bob who invited me to the second annual “Uncle Bob’s Pleasure Cruise” on Saturday, just before he moved to Sweden. Upon inquiring as to what food I could bring, Breadshop said that we weren’t able to bring a grill on the rented pontoon boats due to the insurance. “What if I made a grill float on the lake?”, I asked.

I made a call to Firestone and got to talking to Chris, who ended up donating three tractor tire inner tubes to the cause. I bought a small charcoal grill at OSH and waked through the aisles looking for supports - finally settling on outdoor potted plant hangers.

The assembly was easy. I bent the plant hangers until they properly held the grill above where the lake’s surface would be and was able to screw the hangers into the openings in the grill meant for the grill’s stand (making the modification fully reversible). I went back to OSH to get pipe insulation for where the metal was to meet the rubber inner tube. To keep the grill centered, I added bungee cords to the ends of the hangers that wrapped around the tube and met at a keyring below the grill.