I got a call from a young lady in TX looking for a cake for her father. They were going to be celebrating his 60th birthday in Nashville and she wanted something special.
Her father is an oil man ($$$) who also owns a Warbirds aircraft/airshow company. She told me that her father had just recently refurbished a sailboat and it was his “baby.”
Now, this ain’t just any ol’ sailboat; this was impressive. So I asked her what she thought about a hand-painted sailboat on a cake. I asked her to email some pictures of her father’s boat and we went from there.
I hand-painted the sailboat using both gel and powdered colors and vodka.
(The bottom three tiers of this cake are styrofoam; they only wanted cake for 25 people!)

Thanks for looking!
Peace, love & cake,
- Renay