Windsor, Nova Scotia ? Bad weather derailed Martha Stewart’s plans to ride in a giant pumpkin on a Canadian lake.

But residents who braved a downpour to watch competitors in the annual Pumpkin Regatta already were calling on Stewart to try again next year.

Her flight was grounded Sunday morning at a Maine airport as heavy rains fell across the East Coast.

Stewart had been expected to settle into a giant, hollowed-out pumpkin and paddle her way across Lake Pesaquid, alongside 40 other competitors.

Howard Dill, whose family farm grew what was supposed to be Stewart’s pumpkin, said Stewart’s field producer, Mary Anne Vanderventer, competed in her place.