Boat - Watercraft

A boat is a watercraft of modest size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water. Usually this water will be inland (lakes) or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In naval terms, a boat is a vessel small enough to be carried aboard another vessel (a ship). Another less restrictive definition is a vessel that can be lifted out of the water. Strictly speaking and uniquely a submarine is a boat as defined by the Royal Navy. Some boats too large for the naval definition include the Great Lakes freighter, riverboat, narrowboat and ferryboat.

Boats can be categorized into three types:

* Unpowered or human-powered boats. (Unpowered boats include rafts and floats meant for one-way downstream travel. Human-powered boats include canoes, kayaks, gondolas and boats propelled by poles like a punt.)
* Sailing boats, which are boats propelled solely by means of sails.
* Motorboats, which are boats propelled by mechanical means, such as engines.

More on Boat

* Abora
* Cabin cruiser
* Canoe
* Dory
* Flat-bottomed boat
* Gondola
* Inflatable boat
* Kayak
* Launch (boat)
* Lifeboat (rescue)
* Lifeboat (shipboard)
* Log canoe
* Motorboat
* Narrowboat
* Panga (boat)
* Pirogue
* Raft
* Reed boat
* Rescue craft

* Sailboat
* Sampan
* Ship
* Skiff
* Super yacht
* Traditional fishing boats
* Yacht
* Ferry
* Barge

(Wikipedia)