Dave...in response to your pic of the beautiful Bequia-built boat, I offer a pic of my "badly built boat"

Soon I'll be installing new French doors, after cutting the hole in the wall. Fortunately, this will bring lots of light into what is a relatively dark part of this room and allow us to build a deck out in the yard to meet up with the French doors; unfortunately, the money we've spent on this house so far would have nicely equipped our boat with solar panels, jib furling and an autopilot

As they say (well, as Arthur Ransome wrote), "Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail-shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place."

Bequia sure looks nice...