EB White said it best about sailboat auxiliaries. Sure this quote is well chosen prose on his part, but it's also as accurate and precise to me as a Practical Sailor article about what I like about sailboats.

"If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. A small sailing craft is not only beautiful, it is seductive and full of strange promise and the hint of trouble. If it happens to be an auxiliary cruising boat, it is without question the most compact and ingenious arrangement for living ever devised by the restless mind of man--a home that is stable without being stationary, shaped less like a box than like a fish or a girl, and in which the homeowner can remove his daily affairs as far from shore as he has the nerve to take them, close hauled or running free--parlor, bedroom, and bath, suspended and alive."
~E. B. White

"Suspended an alive", that's a good description of sailing.