click to enlarge Jill Badolato

Six new art sails

click to enlarge Michael Sipe

Six new art sails

click to enlarge Michael Sipe

Clockwise from top left: "Sea Legs" by Nick Heilig, "Guppy Love" by Matt Douglas, "Forbidden Luff" by Tara Goreau, "A Weightless Afternoon" by Max Hodgson, "Edna the Barred Rock" by Sarah-Lee Terrat and "Without a Net" by Jozie Furchgott Sourdiffe

The idea is that eventually every sail [will] be an art sail." According to Naud, this would be approximately 40 sails in total.





Tuesday's event kicked off the CSC's Love Your Lake capital campaign to raise a final $1 million toward building the new Community Waterfront Campus & Sailing Education Center. For Naud, both the center and the campaign are about getting an entire community excited about Lake Champlain — which technically belongs to everyone as part of the public trust.



The art sails are an asset to the CSC's STEAM (science, technology, engineering , art and mathematics) goals for its Floating Classroom programming. In addition, the sails might attract folks who are more visually oriented and less lake-spray inclined.



As Badolato said, "Anytime you look at the waterfront, it’s a floating gallery."