Spring is in the air, and with it comes thoughts of the great outdoors. For someone who loves to enjoy the outdoors on the water, here are two sweepstakes that are sure to tickle your fancy. To enter, or to find out more, follow the links at the bottom of this article.


The Coleman Boatload Sweepstakes is back, and anyone with a love for the outdoors will want to enter it. The Grand Prize Package this year is worth a whopping $85,237.54, with $80,000 of this being a MasterCraft 220 CSX X-Series boat. That boat will be filled with various Coleman products for the winner's delight.

For those not quite as fortunate as the Grand Prize Winner, good fortune still abounds with about 85 other prizes being offered. These range in price from the ten first prizes of a 3-Person Coleman Hydrofusion Towable, valued at $329.99, to the fifty third place prizes of a Coleman Marine Blender, with an estimated retail value of $99.99. All prizes combined for this sweepstakes come in at around $99,536.44. You may enter this sweepstakes once daily per person or email address until the end date of July 31, 2008.

Next is the Purolator Sweepstakes. This one ends on August 31, 2008 and may be entered only once per person or household. This one offers a Grand Prize of the customized Purolator 21’ foot Triton 21x2 boat used in some of the Bassmaster Tournaments, along with the 2008 Toyota Tundra double cab truck that was used to tow it. These prizes are listed as being worth about $90,000 before they had been used (but how much?)... so the end result is that, though it is some incredible equipment, the depreciated value could be much less, depending upon how used this equipment actually is.

For this sweepstakes, it must also be noted that because it has been used, the equipment must be accepted in an "as is" condition, with no warranties or guarantees of any type. Either way, in the end, it is still a fantastic prize package that could work out better than winning a brand new one, even if only for the tax savings alone.