: Nope, no new boat built this year, but, after 7 years the wife's Panache was
: looking pretty sad. The cloth tape on the stems had gone all cloudy and,
: after hundreds of sea miles it was looking pretty beat up. I offered to
: build her a new one but she is totally in love with this boat and said no
: (whew). So we decided to replace all the metal fittings with wooden ones
: and paint over the damaged areas in an attempt to spruce it up a bit. We
: came up with this abstract loon design...

hi edgar

nice loon abstraction. i like how you integrated the front design w/ the bow loop hole. did you put wings or feather pattern on the side where it may sometime smash into the dock?

-mick