NY Times has a great article in its Preoccupations editorial about a writer who builds boats for fun and "describes his work on boats as a 'postgrad seminar in character-building". Please visit my links page to see this wonderful article as well as other good links.
"Building a boat offers no paycheck,
but teaches much about the values of work"
quoted from
"Finding an Answer To Rough Seas" by Lawrence W. Cheek