With the weather warming up a bit along with daylight savings time, I’m starting to think more seriously about the tasks at hand before ORION goes back in the water in the spring. One of the tiny tasks I have wanted to do for a while is to apply an ORION decal to my car, just as I had one on my 2015 Volkswagen Tiguan.
The end of my Tiguan.
A long time ago, fellow Mariner sailor Tim Reiche (#2170 MAGGIE) was kind enough to send me a couple of stickers of ORION he had made at the same time he had some made of his own boat. I promptly put one on the rear driver’s-side window of my Tiguan. In November, 2023 my Tiguan died on the highway while I was towing ORION home for the season, and it had to be towed away on a flatbed, never to be driven again. Of course, the sticker of ORION went with it.
I ended up getting a used Subaru Outback as a replacement, and over a year later, I remembered I still had one more duplicate sticker! I had to wait until the weather got warm enough to apply the sticker so the adhesive would work properly, and today was the day. I ended up putting it near my license plate, and I think it looks pretty nice.
(It was recommended to me to blur the images of my license plate even though it is visible in other pictures on this site including the picture above; it’s only because they are close-ups of the back of my car.)
Now I can recognize the back of my car from far away.
Not a bad representation!