{"id":1755,"date":"2012-04-29T19:22:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2012-04-29T19:22:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T02:22:16","slug":"thriller-a-sculpture-project-on-the-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/thriller-a-sculpture-project-on-the-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Thriller – A Sculpture Project on the Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What’s THIS in our meadow? Is it a classic boat? A sculpture? For me it’s both, plus a bunch of fun? It’s a Lightning class 19-foot sloop, #7108 that was built at the Livingston Boat Shop in Michigan in 1959. Old-growth cedar at it’s finest!<\/p>\n

In 2010 after we sold Sea Witch<\/a>, our 1940 sloop, it took me exactly 10 months to find this boat. Rebuilt by a very fine gentleman in the Bay Area, it was\u00a0perfect for crashing around our local bay, and if you live in Port\u00a0Townsend, you have to have a classic wood boat to crash around the bay.<\/p>\n

I sailed it all last summer, but\u00a0promised myself I wouldn’t make any changes to it\u00a0until this past winter when I got a good feeling for the boat and what I wanted it to look like. So, with new paint colors and bright varnish almost everywhere, we’re now\u00a0closing in on a spring launch. I still have to refit the sails, do some sewing and tighten things up, but we’re closing in.<\/p>\n

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To me, this is high art, sculpture that’s both form and function working together<\/strong>, and just pure beautiful. Under one of the original fittings, I found what appears to be the original deck color, a\u00a01959-era pale-green that coincidentally\u00a0I had already chosen as a color that would match the cedar planking. How’s that for intuitive thinking?<\/p>\n

The boat carries a spinnaker, main and jib, and let me tell you all that when this boat gets off the wind on to a reach in some wind, it’s a real rush when I feel it rise up on a plane and take off. The first time it happened, I said “wow, what a Thriller of a ride” and so that apprears to be the boat’s new name. Stay tuned to more posts as I get this thing together more. Just consider it an on-going art project – which it is!<\/p>\n

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Quite a sled, don’t you think? Want to go for a sail?<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading this week.
\nLarry Eifert<\/p>\n

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