Ok, I'm their 'pimp', so feel free to ignore my biased posits about the sailboat:

Take as given: The title is "Ship in a Bottle."

Posit 1: [with Freudian accent] A sailboat in a museum is not merely a sailboat in a museum. Any reduction and commentary on the 'facts' of the installation ignore the title and the act entirely.

Posit 2: A better reduction would be to explore the notion of 'ship in a bottle' as a metaphor for the 'creative act' and then comment on how successful this piece is under that rubric.

Unfinished Posit 3: A full-size 'ship in a bottle' in a very specific museum space, with a very specific history of art installed there [not to worry Jen, the Chihuly FLOATS will be be back soon], a space with a very specific [read: cloying] maritime design, with extreme limitations of access [read; hostile/proprietorial architecture], with extreme limitations of time and funding, in a city with a very specific nautical history, by artists with a documented history of such acts, and by artists who's work has consistently explored the nature of the creative act, [physical and creative constraints], performance, site-specificity, institutional critique, and spectator interactivity is ______________.

Posit 4: Leaving a fill-in ____________ on the SLOG is a very dangerous thing.