Boat

A boat is a watercraft on the water, or as a submarine exactly balanced by the Archimedes principle, also according to the Archimedes' principle, floating in a precisely definable by the crew in the water depth.

Definition

Boats differ from ships by their size. A boat is smaller than a ship in general; According to German law definition of its length, for example, less than eleven meters. From rafting to boats ( and ships) demarcate their structure: they have a body ( hollow body ) and are moved by motors, sail or muscle strength.

The hull ( hull ) of a boat can be made of wood, steel, plastic, fiberglass, or even concrete, sometimes combinations of materials.

Boats after their construction ( wooden boat, dinghy ), its drive ( motor boat, paddle boat, rowing boat, sailing boat), by application ( fishing boat, house boat, rescue boat, sports boat, racing boat, airboat, amphibious vehicle ), according to their hydrodynamic properties ( glider, semi-planing, displacement ) or by the number of hulls (one hull = monohull, two hulls = catamaran, trimaran three hulls are = ) distinguished.

Another special form are hovercrafts, as they displace the water during the journey, nor slide on it. Instead, they use the ground effect. Surfboats are boats with high side wall, which can overcome strong sea surges due to their special underwater ship.

Another special form are swamp boats that can slide not only on the water, but in the marshes on the grasses.

It should additionally be mentioned that also the sidecar is referred to as a motorcycle boot. Especially in the 20s and 30s of last century, the forms of these boats were inspired by the hulls of that time. Also removable and floating sidecar (as paddle or motor boat ) were manufactured.

Distinction between boat and ship

In German, there are three distinctions between boat and ship:

• Sailboat / sailing ship: Today small marine vessels are referred to as Boot ( Rubber boat, paddle boat, inflatable boat, banana boat, dinghy, dinghy ). Larger sailors who usually need a hired crew to operate are called sailing ship. Previously regarded as a sailboat those with more than two masts sail leading. Sailboats possessed three or more masts sail leading. The sailboat / ship demarcation was a classic that was available in all languages ​​and nations worldwide. In the sailor language was (in Europe) until into the 20th century generally meant by a sailing ship, the full-rigged ship with at least three masts, which had to be rahgetakelt all. Because of the not necessarily smaller dimensions at significantly superior sailing performance of schratbesegelten vehicles, the term ship during the 20th century but was extended to sailing vessels, which had less than three ( or no ) square rigged masts, as long as the number of sail leading poles (no matter whether or schratgetakelt rah ) was at least three. In addition, there are areas in the world where the development did not take the course over square sails on the way from the sail boat to sail the ship.
• In the German Navy ships and boats, according to the disciplinary authority of the commander and the first officer to be distinguished. On ships, the commander of the first officer has disciplinary authority of a battalion commander, the company commander a. On boats, the commander has the disciplinary power of a company commander, his representative has no disciplinary authority. He is not the first officer ( IO) but first watch officer designated ( First Watch ).
• Boats and ships in civilian use: The line between boats and ships (non- sailors ) is drawn differently in different countries and languages.

In the ( European or American ) practice, the distinction has in boat versus boat no effect, since the (European and American ) authorities boats according to their uses ( military or civilian, commercial or private) or according to their absolute sizes ( lengths, widths, drafts, tonnage ) are different.

There are still only a difference in the use of language, as a sailor traditionally prefers to work on a ship, as ( in its literal sense ) in a nutshell.

And there's a not insignificant financial difference since the same work was paid often better on a ship of the same shipowner / operator of rank classifications (and will), than that. On a boat

As the same time, it is important but also difficult, especially for the crew and the operator of a vehicle, to draw the line between boat and ship, already can the example of the Bounty be recognized that, depending on armament ( a now extinct criterion), occupation or after rigging of his contemporaries at the Royal British Admiralty times as boot (because only weakly armed and with too low an occupation ) and sometimes as a ship (because with full rigging in ) has been classified and their crews ( from commander Bligh, right down to the cabin boy ) Ranks led and had to accept salaries as they were common on a boat, not a ship. In fact, Bligh was promoted after his return from lieutenant to captain, ie in rank ( and in grade ) from someone who commanded a boat to someone who could command a ship.

Yacht

Yacht, sailing or motor yacht is a name for a larger and more livable sailing or motor boat. Sailing yachts are usually designed as a weight- stable keel boats. The stability of dinghies always contrast, is based on the dimensional stability of the boat hull.

Formerly " yacht" is synonymous with the earlier word "pleasure boat ". Later they went on to be understood by a yacht especially larger and more luxurious equipped private boats and ships that have at least one continuous closed deck, which granted full standing height (just under 6 feet or approximately 1.80 m).

Cruiser

In the Lifeboat ( for example, GMRS or U.S. Coast Guard ) is between lifeboats, which are mostly used in coastal waters, and Seenotkreuzern distinction (also lifeboat or rescue boat ). The addition of distress ( rescue ) is required to distinguish these types of lifeboats international uniformly defined.