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Some boats in a harbour in Miami Beach, Florida

A boat is a watercraft, usually smaller than most ships. Some boats are commonly carried by a ship or on land using trailers.

A boat consists of one or more buoyancy structures called hulls and some system of propulsion, such as a screw, oars, paddles, a setting pole, a sail, paddleweels or a water jet.

1 Parts of a boat
2 Types of boats
3 Unusual types of boats
4 Unusual uses of the word "Boat"
5 See also
6 External links

Parts of a boat

Ancient boat in an Egyptian tomb painting from about 1450 BCE

The roughly horizontal butt cambered structures spanning the hull of the boat are referred to as the "deck". In a ship there are often several, but a boat is unlikely to have more than one. The similar but usually lighter structure which spins a raised cabin is a coach-roof. The "floor" of a cabin is properly known as the sole but is more likely to be called the floor. (A floor is properly, a structural member which ties a frame to the keelson and keel.) The underside of a deck is the deck head. The vertical surfaces dividing the internal space are "bulkheads". Some are important parts of the vessel's structure. The front of a boat is called the bow or prow. The rear of the boat is called the stern. The right side is starboard and the left side is port.

It is somewhat risible in modern practice to call the command area of a large boat the "bridge". It is the cock or wee house, depending on its design.

The compartments housing a toilet, and the toilet itself, are known as the "crapper", and a trip to this area is a "ride".

In the old days, cordage intended for the delicate hands of a yacht's owner was of linen, later cotton. Therefore cordage used to control a sailing boat, tends to be referred to as "line" rather than rope. Most have specific names, but in general, lines used for raising things like sails and flags are "halyards" while the principal ones for adjusting the positions of the sails are called "sheets".

All the lines and wire collectively are referred to as "rigging". That which is set up in the yard and left is standing rigging. That which is adjustable in use is running rigging. For example, a forestay is standing rigging and a sheet or a halyard is part of the running rigging.

Types of boats

Derelict: a ship's lifeboat, built of steel and rotting away in the wetlands of Folly Island, North Carolina

Banana boat
Bangca
Bateau
Barge
Cabin Cruiser
Canoe
Catamaran
Cape Islander
Catboat
Coble
Coracle
Cruiser
Cutter (pulling boat)
Cutter (sailing boat)
Dhow
Dinghy
Dory
Durham Boat
Dutch Barge
Felucca
Ferry
Folding boat
Go-fast boat
Gondola
Houseboat
Inflatable boat

A sailboat (racing dinghy) and barge share the Mississippi River

Jetboat, Jetski
Jonsboat
Junk
Kayak
Ketch
Lifeboat
Log boat
Longboat
Luxemotor
Motorboat
Narrowboat
Norfolk wherry
Outrigger canoe
Padded V-hull
Pinnace
Pirogue
Powerboat

Tourist schooner in Greece

Punt
Raft
Rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB)
Rowboat, rowing boat
Sailboat, sailing boat
Sampan
Schooner
Scow
Sharpie
Skiff
Sloop
Submarine
Surf boat
Swift boat
Tjalk
Trimaran
Tugboat
U-boat
Water taxi
Whaleboat
Yacht
Yawl

Unusual types of boats

Unusual floating vehicles have been used for sports purposes as well. For example, the Bathtub Boat is used in "bathtub races" in many cities, although it originated in Nanaimo, BC, Canada.

Unusual uses of the word "Boat"

Often in rowing as a racing-type competitive sport, "boat" means the crew and "shell" means the craft. So a university might refer to its first boat, meaning the rowers who make up their best team, rather than their best piece of equipment.
A submarine is generally referred to as a boat rather than a ship. This dates from the early days of submarine warfare, when submarines were essentially motor torpedo boats which could submerge. In the modern combat environment where a typical attack submarine is the size of a destroyer and equipped with either a nuclear reactor or air independent propulsion which can allow it to stay submerged for months or weeks (and boomers are even larger, on the order of old-style battleships), this use is something of an anachronism.
A ship can be informally known as a boat, especially by its crew. This use is uncommon in the case of a warship.
In Great Lakes shipping, "boat" refers to any vessel, even one which would normally be considered a "ship" on the ocean.
In some versions of cockney rhyming slang, "boat" means face, from "boat race".
The term "gravy boat" is used to describe a small jug used to dispense meat gravy at the dining table. Similarly: "sauce boat".
A boat can also be one of the massive cars manufactured in America from the 1950s through the 1970s.
A boat, short for full-boat is another term for a full-house in the card game poker.

Look up boat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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External links

Hull Identification Numbers Explanation of International HIN formats
Talk Boats Non-commercial online boating forum
Boating Directory
FirstBoat.com Information about boating, particularly for new boaters
DBA - Dutch Barge Association Living aboard ex-commercial barges or any other type of broad-beam inland waterways craft
Every Boat Sales Extensive search engine of boats around the world
BoatlinX: A very popular directory of boat sites

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