Tag Type Sailboat Games
Many of these games use a wet sponge as a tagger.
You can get bright colored ones that are easy to see in the water, and large enough that when soaked with water, make great reusable projectiles.
You can also use long range squirt guns instead of sponges.
Ping pong balls are a great tagging item too - they can be trown a good distance, are very cheap, and have such a small mass that when they hit, you won't get hurt.
King Of The Hill
Everyone starts out sailing around a designated area for 3 minutes to spread out.
Then everyone tries to tag each other with either a squirt gun or wet sponge.
If 2 boats tag each other, the one that tagged the other first wins the "battle" and is still "in".
If you get tagged, you are "out" and have to sail over to the dock or "out" area.
The last one sailing wins.
Possible scoring: 1 point for winner, 2 points for 2nd place, 3 points for everyone else.
Possible alteration: Can only use sponges to tag each other, and each boat is given one sponge only.
If you are tagged and out, you have to give your sponge to a surviving boat.
Tag
Bouys are setup to designate an area.
The chaser (identified by flying a flag on his boat, or holds up a sponge waving it) has to sail up and tag another boat by hitting them with a sponge.
When hit, the victim has to do 3 turns in place to give time for the attacker to escape, then the victim must fly a flag to show he is the chaser and then the game goes on.
Freeze Tag
When another boat is tagged, they have to go into the safety position (beam on, sails flapping) until another boat comes along and tags them to free them.
Capture The Flag
Split fleet into 2 teams. Each team has a bouy in their home area to identify that as their home, and a flag bouy that the other team is going to try and capture.
The first team to capture the other team's bouy and bring it back to their home area wins.
If hit by an opponent with a sponge, you have to sail back to your home area before returning to the game.
If you have an enemy bouy, you have to drop it right there.
You are not allowed to pickup your own bouy, you have to defend it where it fell.
** Make sure everyone knows right of way rules, do not make contact between the boats.
War
The fleet is divided into 2 teams, and each team has a bouy cross wind from each other.
Each boat flies a flag showing which team they are affiliated with.
The object of the game is to sail across to the other side and touch the other team's bouy - sort of like capture the flag, but you don't have to take the bouy back, just touch it.
If someone hits you with a waterballoon, you are "out" and have to take down your flag, and sail to a penalty area.
Dead Fish Water Polo
A sponge is floating in the water (that is the dead fish).
People sail up to it and grab it out of the water, then throw it at other boats.
If the sponge hits the other boat, then that boat is out.
The last survivor wins.
If the sponge is accidentally dropped in their own boat, they are NOT out.
Also, after being hit, the victim must immediately throw the sponge, but if it hits anyone, it does not make them out.