Skool, I can relate. There is nothing like the beauty of those old wood boats. No doubt fiberglass made boating affordable for us (the masses). But a wooden boat is a work of art.
When I first moved to the coast, I considered buying a 42' Matthews like this:
Well, maybe not quite like this! Anyway, it was tied up at an island marina as a liveaboard, and I gave serious consideration to buying it as such. It had no engines, so it wasn't going anywhere soon. I could have bought it for a couple grand. I didn't do it (bought a condo instead), but I always wondered how it would have been.