This is the main deck entry foyer aboard the 124-foot Delta motoryacht Aerie, which I toured today at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. As you can see, there are two eagles inlaid within the marble--a design executed with such incredible detail that I stood and stared at it for the better part of five minutes.

The artist is Jeff Homchick, who is based in Seattle, Washington, and is well-known for his marble, tile, and mosaic work. As a master craftsman, he has contributed to a good number of yachts, always with interesting detail. Recently, for instance, he created a hand-cut, stainless-steel, roulette-wheel floor inlay for the 163-foot Christensen motoryacht Casino Royale.

Aboard Aerie, the crew told me, the eagles are created from pieces of petrified wood that have been inlaid within laser-cut spaces in the entry foyer's marble. The work, done when the yacht launched in 2001, still looked perfect to my eye nearly a decade later. It also still looked impressive, which is saying quite a lot about this artist's sense of vision and taste.

Aerie's current owner has quite a sense of vision and taste, too, having just completed a good deal of refit work to get the yacht up to standard for the winter charter season in the Caribbean. I'll have more about that for you here on CharterWave soon, or you can contact management company Fraser Yachts Worldwide.

For now, I'll leave you with one more photograph of Aerie's foyer, this one a close-up of the wood pieces that comprise the eagle at the bottom of the wide-angle photograph. Remember: These are flat pieces inlaid into a floor. Looks remarkably like layered feathers, no?

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