{"id":5503,"date":"2015-09-09T08:09:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2024-02-21T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T02:04:27","slug":"thriller-my-little-sculpture-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/thriller-my-little-sculpture-project\/","title":{"rendered":"“Thriller” -My Little Sculpture Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My life is brim-full of four things: Nancy, painting, hiking and sailing. The Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival begins tomorrow  and through the weekend, and we’ve been in it many times with various boats. With a fresh coast of Doris Day-green deck paint, a friend thought I should post something about my on-going sculpture project, the smallest sailboat I’ve ever owned called “Thriller”<\/em>, a 1959 Lightning #7108. If you’re in the festival, drop by and say hi. We should be along the outside of one of the lineal docks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re not heard of this festival, Port Townsend’s population triples this weekend when 300 classic boats come to town. It’s quiet a scene, with workshops, races, music and food – and a Sunday Sail-by with hundreds of boats from canoes to giant schooners.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This boat:<\/strong> amazing construction above and beyond what most Lightnings look like, Thriller<\/em> was built\u00a0by the Livingston Boat Shop in Northport, Michigan for the grandson of Kroehler Furniture Corporation owner \u2013 a rich-kid\u2019s boat. It’s 56 years old. Much\u00a0of the restoration was done by the previous owner in the Bay Area, but I’ve finishing it off, made the rig better and the hull ‘bright’. Almost all the wood is original, including the mahogany seats. With a stainless centerboard now (the original would have been cast iron) and rigged for single-handed sailing, my three-season routine is to spend a joyful couple of hours in late afternoon on Port Townsend Bay, joining the guillemots, auklets and seals exploring the best place I’ve ever sailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See you at the Festival!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading this week. Send this to someone who might appreciate what I’m painting and tell them to sign up. I’m trying to expand my list. An email <\/a>will work.<\/strong>
Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the blog on the web.<\/a> And here’s my Facebook fan page<\/a>. I post lots of other stuff there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click <\/a>here to go to our main website – with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy’s web portfolio of beautiful photographs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\u00a0here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.<\/a> Her books are now becoming available as Amazon Kindle books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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