Tallest Sand Castle

Ed Jarett has every reason to smile and why not he has proved not once but many times.Setting a record may itself be a tough thing to do but what about breaking records and that  too he has broken his own records thrice.

He came up with the tallest sand castle  in 2003 then broke the record set in 2003 by superseding that in 2007  and now again he is back with a bang by surpassing the 2007 record too.Ed Jarrett, a Canton resident and director of golf and clubhouse operations at Farmington Woods is on a spree of making and breaking records.

His current record attempt claims a 38 ft ,2 inch  sand marvel  reportedly the tallest sand wonder ever.

Now that is what you call unprecedented will,determination and of course a powerhouse of talent.

Ed not only used a sand bucket and a shovel but also needed the help of 1,500 volunteers  working for 2,500 hours  and turning the 1.6 million pounds of sand  in to a neatly crafted castle.

Now to silence the shutterbugs we tell you that the sand castle was built  to raise funds for terminally ill children and their families.Now that was indeed an act  of  utmost nobility from the  master craftsman Jarett.

The good intentions  and all the hardwork did pay results. Jarrett spent the summer building a "Castle to the Sun" to raise funds to benefit Camp Sunshine, a camp on Sebago Lake for children with life-threatening illnesses.

Ed Jarrett's creation at Point Sebago stands 31 feet 7 inches, beating his old record   by 2 feet 4 inches.

In 2003, Jarrett built a sandcastle 29 feet, three inches tall, breaking the Guinness 

World Record for the Tallest Sandcastle for the first time and taking bragging rights 

from Finland.  In 2007, he broke his own record, sculpting a castle 31 feet, seven 

inches tall and raising more than $100,000 for charity at the same time.  Never 

satisfied, he now seeks to build a castle at least 35 feet tall and raise even more 

money for charitable organizations.Designed to raise money for several charitable organizations, the Jarrett’s Castle

event lists Save Walton Pond, Special Olympics Connecticut, Gifts of Love, New 

Horizons, and UCONN Children’s Cancer Fund as its primary beneficiaries.

His insatiable desire to keep conquering bench marks has set his work in the distinquished category.

The Tallest Sand Castle measured 38 ft,2 inches in height and was set by Ed Jarrett at Farmington,Connecticut,United States of America on May 10,2011.