I'm not sure how the Raft would work, in practice. I've been 'rafted' with three boats, and it is sort of annoying. The boats each have their own rhythm of reacting to the sea, so you bounce from one against the other, of if you have lines keeping you away from each other you will hit the end of your lines.

Maybe that can all be rigged with spring lines or something to make it suck less.

Or maybe it just sucks to have so little going on that you need to raft up and drift about the world.

But the picture is very cool. That captures a lot of how I saw it.