A gigantic pimped-out pumpkin has been paddled down the River Ouse today after an incredible carve.
Tom Pearcy rowed across the water in a 1,364lb canoe created from a monster pumpkin.
The 48-year-old Maze owner from York impressed crowds gathered on the banks as he travelled 500m in the unusual spectacle.
He said: ‘We have a competition every year to find the biggest pumpkin and we always try and do something fun with it.
‘I like canoeing so the idea to hollow the winning pumpkin out and take it down the River Ouse just came to me.
Tom Pearcy from York Maze rowing the record-breaking pumpkin boat down the river Worlds biggest pumpkin boat
Tom Pearcy is rowing the ‘HMS York Maze’ pumpkin down the river Ouse between Ouse Bridge and Skeldergate Bridge
Mr Pearcy revealed how he ‘almost fell off’ his pumpkin multiple times as he paddled the 500m along the river as fans looked on
The gigantic pumpkin was turned into a boat since the Maze attempts to do something special with their large grows every year
‘We put the pumpkin into a big drinking trough yesterday to see how it would float.
‘Then we chopped the top off with a chainsaw and hollowed out the inside so I could fit.
‘Although I was quite nervous and it wasn’t exactly the most stable journey I managed to travel for 500m.
A crane was called in to lift the boat which weighed 1,364lbs before it was carved into a vessel for Mr Pearcy to sit in
The gigantic pumpkin was not far off the weight of the world’s biggest ever which was grown in Rhode Island and weighed 1,502 pounds