But when the six budding artists started painting the hull, gluing photos and newspaper clippings and sticking hundreds of oyster shells onto the 130-pound fiberglass sculpture, they kept running into problems and nearly missed their deadline.
"We were kind of winging it in the beginning," said Kelly Bednarik, an amateur photographer on the Arundel team. "We were afraid that we would mess it up and we'd have to start all over."
The ripples of trouble never turned into waves, and yesterday their creation was...
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