A boat, like a ship, is a buoyant vessel designed for the purpose of transporting people and possibly goods across water. A boat is usually smaller than a ship. 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, oars, paddles, a setting pole, a sail or a motor.
1 Boats
- Bangca
- Canoe
- Catamaran
- Coracle
- CruiserCruising means different things to different cruisers, but all cruising shares the following characteristics: living on the boat, traveling, extended periods of time (more than a week or two). To reduce fuel expense, the most common cruising boat is a sai
- CutterFor other meanings, see cutter (baseball) and cutter (tool). A cutter is any of several types of small water vessel. A classic cutter is any sailing vessel with two or more head sails and a mast which is set further aft (to the rear of the vessel) than th
- DhowA dhow is a traditional boat design with one or more triangular sails, called lateens. It is indigenous to the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula, India, and East Africa. A larger dhow may have a crew of approximately thirty while smaller dhow have crews mor
- DinghyA dinghy is either a small utility boat used to tend a larger boat, or it is a boat developed from these tenders but now used in its own right as a form of leisure sailing and/or rowing. See Dinghy sailing. This article concentrates on dinghies as tenders
- DoryA dory is a small shallow-draft boat of approximately 15 to 22 feet in length. Lightweight and versatile, these boats are used both in the open sea for commercial fishing applications, as well as in interior river white water rafting, McKenzie River Dory
- Dutch Barge
- FeluccaFor the fictional moon, see Felucca (Ultima). A felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat used in protected waters of the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean including Malta, and particularly along the Nile in Egypt. Its rig consists of one or two lateen
- FerryA ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and possibly their vehicles, on a relatively short-distance, regularly-scheduled service. Ferries form an important part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities, allowing direct transit bet
- Folding boat
- Go-fast boatThe go-fast boat is the generic name for the smuggling boat of choice in many parts of the world in the 1990s and first years of the 21st century. The name is also more widely used for high performance craft of the characteristic design. A typical smuggli
- Houseboat
- Inflatable boat
- Jetboat, Jetski
- Junk
- Kayak
- Ketch
- Lifeboat
- Log boat
- Luxemotor
- Motorboat
- Narrowboat
- Norfolk wherry
- Outrigger canoe
- Peniche
- Pinnace
- Powerboat
- Raft
- Rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB)
- Rowboat, rowing boat
- Sailboat, sailing boat
- Sampan
- Schooner
- Sloop
- Submarine
- Tjalk
- Trimaran
- Tugboat
- U-boat
- Water taxi
- Whaleboat
- Yacht
- Yawl
