Summer 2024 was our lucky 13th season for so many reasons. We were lucky to have amazing campers who engaged with our program to learn, improve and have a blast. We were lucky to have an unreal staff of coaches who managed to have their best summers while always putting our campers first. We were lucky to have a new partnership with Supra for some wildly awesome boats. We were lucky to have perfect weather and crystal clear water. But, most of all, we continue to be lucky for 13 years to have the support of our camp families who send their kids to the middle of nowhere NH to play on the lake with us and keep Water Monkey going strong.
Here are some of our favorite pics from the season:
Now for some fun stats from our 13th season:
7 weeks of camp from mid-June to mid-August.
94.44% full (119 spaces filled out of 126 with 107 unique campers)
Campers stayed an average of 1.12 weeks at camp
Average number of campers each week was 17
Campers were 70.6% boys and 29.4% girls
Average camper age was 13.89
39% new campers and 61% returners
Campers came from 11 states (CO, CT, IL, MA, ME, MN, NH, NJ, NY, PA and TX) as well as Italy and Spain
5 coaches, 1 chef and 1 director
Average coach age was 20.4
6 sizes of Liquid Force wakeboards for our campers to have the perfect ride (along with one pair of size 14 boots for two campers with some giant feet!)
We used and abused around 40 Phase 5 wakesurf boards this season (12 models)
2,800 water balloons were hurled during Monkey Ball
3,276 homemade meals and 910 desserts served up lakeside
300 hours of private lessons on our boats and client boats
8,001 pictures and videos uploaded and shared with our camp families
16,000 visitors to www.watermonkeycamp.com in the past year (14,000 unique) spent an average of 83 seconds on the site and engaged 27,919 page views
Winterizing our property took 19 gallons of antifreeze
675 hours logged on our two Supra boats
36.5 hours spent keeping the boats shiny!
Our boats had 14 motor oil changes
We had 1 wrecked propeller due to low water at the boat launch (2 props in 13 seasons)
4,389.620 gallons of premium marine fuel burned by our boats producing roughly 41 metric tons of CO2 (90,000 pounds). We offset this pollution through a donation to CoolEffect.org of $765.82 which has been our charity of choice for over 11 years.
We have now offset roughly 455 metric tons (over 1 million pounds) of CO2 since 2012!
I am so excited for our 2025 season and to welcome back our campers. Always feel free to email, call, text or write with camp questions, to sign up for next summer or to just say hi!
-Evan
617-855-9253
