Am I an Artist?

I would never have described myself in my younger years as
handy or creative or even talented in any areas. I was pretty shy and the idea
of talking in public sent me running and made me feel sick.

Fast forward 20 years and like a lot of people I am a
completely different person. I have discovered that I have many talents and
have learnt self taught myself a lot of skills. I can weld (stick, mig, tig, aluminium
stainless) I am good at fibre-glassing and can use most mediums to create or
renovate.

I have discovered that the secret to learning and becoming
good at anything is a combination of motivation, practice and learning.

Around about 2000 my father in law and my father began
considering building a large sailing catamaran, they purchased all the
requisite magazines filled with stories of people doing this and perused boat
yards and home builders. Their dreams would never become reality but I caught
their fire and in 2005 began to build with zero experience a 40 foot sailing
catamaran.

My motivation- sail my family around the world,

My goal- to build a beautiful boat that looked like it wasn’t
made by an amateur,my skill set zero, my knowledge zero

When I opened the set of plans I purchased I figured that I had
made the biggest mistake of my life as these did not appear to be
comprehensible or intelligible, many conversations later I was finished with my
masterpiece and have since put much time and effort into building an additional
2 boats.

Is a beautiful well made boat the same as a picture in an artgallery or a fine sculpture? has their been any less effort put in or creative processes, I followed plans but then I added touches made modifications to create what I though looked beautiful…