Originally posted by Straight-Stack:

Now if we could get a skiff we could tether to our longship, that'd be nice. Leave the longship away from shore, take the skiff in. It'd even be historically accurate; most large vessels had a skiff either on them or trailing them (if the ship wasn't big enough to actually have the skiff on it).

This is the best and immersive solution to the " damn my boat gets attacked by freaking everything in the water while I build my base" problem.

I would dig the mod doing that.