Thanks for the feedback so far. I'll tell you the problems I have had and maybe some of you can suggest fixes. 1)Wood texture: actually looks pretty good in the jpg I found. It renders out like this, even using the anti-aliasing. I can try scaling it to see if that looks better. 2)The entrance to the little house: A negative boolean looked weird and worse than the black doorway. Without it it is just a smooth wall which also looks weird. I tried a steering wheel, but the boom would swing across where you would stand to steer. 3)I liked the transparent look of the sails, but if most people would rather see solid, I can do solid. 4)I added the rope piles to make the deck more interesting, but then they weren't conneted to the lines on the ship, so I added a cylendar to make the connection. Apparently it doesn't go over well. 5)View: I could scoot the camera closer to the bow (and remove the little house thing completely) or I could make the canvas bigger. Perhaps leaning over the railing? Lin