Talk:Boat

Merge
Can watercraft be merged with boat in order to simplify the articles (boat, boating, ship, watercraft) and provide a more clear article (with 1 meaning for each) ? Would allow to add more specific and better information for each rather than give a general view/modification of text for each individual article.

Also, boating can then be described as the activity of moving a watercraft over water (something which is hard if it were only to describe boats)

Definition should also be changed to A watercraft or boat is ... KVDP (talk) 09:31, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * "Watercraft" is a broader category of conveyances which enable passage across water, compared to "boat." Watercraft includes personal watercraft, which is the generic name for jet-skis and waverunners, as well as canoes and other gizmos such as this.  A boat is a type of watercraft, but not all watercraft are boats.  IMHO a merge of one into the other is not the best way to treat them here.  –Newportm (talk • contribs) 06:55, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I suppose....whatever floats your boat.--Master of ideas for a floating boat (talk) 12:06, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

I have removed the text "Being more capacious than carts and wagons, and suitable for both land and grass". A boat is not necessarily more capacious than a cart or wagon and I have no idea what "suitable for both land and grass" means.MikeEagling (talk) 04:22, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

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Why locked?
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Naval boats
This article is, well, eccentric in its treatment of naval boats. For example, the lead asserts boldly, with no citation, that
 * in modern naval terms, a boat is a vessel small enough to be carried aboard a ship

So what about missile boats, gunboats, torpedo boats, patrol boats, dispatch boats, and naval tugboats. Many of these can weigh thousands of tonnes and are not at all suitable for carrying on ships. Then there are submarines, which by naval tradition are always referred to as boats. The Typhoon-class weighs up to 48,000 tonnes.– Epipelagic (talk) 20:00, 13 May 2019 (UTC)


 * While the PT boats of WW II were capable of service on the High Seas, they didn't have storage capacity for fuel and rations for long journeys. Those used in the Western Pacific were taken there as cargo as were the smaller landing craft, possibly aboard the larger landing craft such as LSTs.  Tugs, like submarines are traditionally called boats, and the others are named after their job, with boat part of the common description.  JDZeff (talk) 19:01, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

WH Mullins unsourced info?
I noticed that under the Building materials sections, there was a bit of unsourced info added about 'WH Mullins' that apparently has gone unremoved since. Is there a reason for this, or was it just overlooked? - K u r o 06:14, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Ski boat
What is it? Lemma redirects here, but no explanation is given. --BjKa (talk) 13:37, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Scientific American article
Not sure if this fits in the historical section, other editors can decide. "A Boat Older Than The Ark" https://books.google.com/books?id=p4o9AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false ; 20 July 1878, p. 41 SloppyTots (talk) 19:50, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 June 2021
I want to add citations to where they are needed Benbeezy (talk) 12:38, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
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Boat
Boat is a Indian Headphones brand Md437Ad (talk) 18:37, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Doubtful claim about dugouts
At present, the article claims that the earliest boats are thought to be dugouts. In the grand scheme of human travel over water, dugouts are considered a more sophisticated development, after rafts, bark and reed canoes etc. The oldest remnants of boats are dugouts, probably because they are hardier and more likely to survive to the modern era than a reed or bark canoe. Ordinary Person (talk)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 April 2023
Change: Any one vessel may use more than one of these methods at different times on in combination. To: Any one vessel may use more than one of these methods at different times or in combination. 109.155.52.111 (talk) 12:58, 9 April 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅ HopsonRoad (talk) 14:32, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 June 2024
The lead states that a ship "is distinguished [from a boat] by its larger size, shape, cargo or passenger capacity, or its ability to carry boats".

Larger size and cargo/passenger capacity are fair enough, but what is a "larger shape"? "Shape" is clearly part of the things described as "larger" on ships in this sentence. My minor suggestion is to change this sentence to something like:

"is distinguished by its larger size, cargo or passenger capacity, its shape or its ability to carry boats" or any variation that makes "shape" separate, clearing it up a little for dumb people like me

OR

The Wikipedia article for "ship" has it as: "Ships are generally distinguished from boats, based on size, shape, load capacity and purpose."

It could also be rephrased to be more similar to this.

Thank you for anybody who grants this nitpicking edit. English isn't my first language I hope I articulated it well 2A02:C7E:3188:4C00:C117:F1A:B51F:7B1E (talk) 00:19, 9 June 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅ Tollens (talk) 09:21, 9 June 2024 (UTC)