I can get to a beach in under 2 hours in a car... but I find them boring. Sand gets into everything.
I love the beach. My wife wants us to buy a beach house in North Carolina for vacationing, but I don't see the point to it. For one thing, it's 7 to 8 hours away, which is too far for a weekend trip, so we'd probably only use it once or twice a year, and I'd just rather get a hotel room for that. Paying things like hurricane insurance for something we're only going to be at 1 week a year seems kind of crazy. Sure, we could probably rent it out here and there, but I doubt we'd make our money back.
I knew someone who lived on a yacht for awhile. They traveled along the coasts of North and South America, never staying any one place too long. Sounded kind of fun. Being young and dumb about yachts, I asked them if they ever followed the Viking path and went to Europe, but she told me that was beyond the capabilities of their yacht. Seems like if a wooden longboat could do it that a modern yacht could, but I still don't know anything about yachts, so I don't know.