Summertime Updates to the Arc

We always try to continue implementing our ideas anytime we get free time so just before we left for the summer we painted a section of the salon.  Our idea is to create an undersea/aquarium look.  Carter painted the upper section a dark blue to simulate the water and we plan to collect fish and such, on our travels this summer. 

Pretty sure it will need a second coat.

I put together my first piece of sculpture on our 4th of July weekend trip to the Arc. 

Carter liked it and I'm happy with it too!

This is a piece of driftwood I picked up from an anchorage near Pensacola.  The large fish on the wall is Carter's from a trip to the Bahamas many years ago and the smaller fish are from a gift shop in Apalachicola.  Carter added the parrot(fish) that he found in a little store we visited near Panacea, FL on on our way to Apalachicola on the 4th of July.  This is just the beginning and we have the entire circumnavigation around Florida to add to it.  I'm sure we are going to come across some pretty cool stuff to work with.

Carter worked on another project this past week that we have been talking about for a while now.  We want to enclose the cockpit and have decided to use the spindles that we prepared two seasons ago. We were going to support the entire lifeline with these but later decided to go back with the original stainless steel stanchions and just use the spindles in the cockpit area. This will be sturdier and easier to install and maintain. We think they look pretty good so we will incorporate them into the final design when we take the boat into the yard next fall.

View from the port side on the dock.

Carter is finishing up the starboard side with Radar supervising.

Starboard side as seen from the water.

Also, if you notice, Carter put the sticker for our first sponsor, EV Drives!  A major upgrade to our website is forthcoming with details about our propulsion system supplied by EV-Drives.

Thanks Carl, for your support.