Today, the boat in the sky heads for the water.
Known as a “peapod” for its stout, broad shape, the 13- foot-long Maine lobster boat being launched this afternoon behind Memorial Union is the creation of UW-Madison artist- in-residence Joshua Swan. For the past four months, Swan could be found bending, shaping and planing wood in the art department’s seventh-floor woodshop – dubbed for the duration “The Boatyard in the Sky.”