Hey, Josh...great to 'see' you. Yep, I was surprised Quint fit so well on the boat - now I need to ask Davis if he can get Hooper and Brody (and Bruce) to come to the party.

@jpatt1000

No, Greg, Quint is just making a cameo. Not to worry - the lady will be set out soon in all her splendour - very soon. I think Davis just needed a little light relief; next up - a new cabin interior and a shiny shark cage - thanks for dropping by, Chief.

Got the Orca back on track and made net gains after the calamities of last weekend.

Got almost all the interior cabin furniture replaced, rebuilt, fitted.

Great save, David! the mark of a master, to not give up in the face of disaster.

“You go in the cage. Cage goes in the water. Shark’s in the water. Our shark...”

Stephen, the ship’s bell will be ringing this weekend. The scheduled ‘to do’ list is below...

This evening I started on the shark cage.

@stephen-w-towle

Erik, please follow along. Comment or no, the knowledge that there’s real people out there gives some encouragement and added motivation on these longer builds. Makes one feel a little less madisolatedgeek...ish.

@airbum

Matt, the fighting chair is there on the ‘to do’ list in the photo, but if you look closely, it is followed by a question mark. The chair is part of an in-built ‘future proofing’ of this project. The Orca herself can be augmented, there’s the ‘Indy’ to be built, I’ll probably add a mechanical ‘Bruce’ at some point, and the base itself may evolve into a more organic presentation. A project that just keeps giving.

For the moment, though, I think I’ll leave that sub-assembly for a winter (in this half of the globe, anyway) addition. The chair itsel is a movie anomoly - you’ll note it disappears after the first encounter with the shark.

The actual chair was on auction recently with a starting bid of a reasonable $8000...