Indeed, it's not a wooden ship, it's a boat-shaped building constructed with the highest technology that science has given us. If the point was to show that such things can be built today, then fine - but nothing we don't all see every day and hardly worth the cost of doing it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'