Boats

• About this book
• Philosophy of boats
• Gutter boats – The gods make boats from sticks with paper sails.
• Connecting – The water has no paths and leaves no trail.
• Basic boat – The basic boat can teach a person how it feels to be free.
• Buoyancy and displacement – A boat may carry the weight of the water it displaces.
• Across oceans – A boat was freedom from place.
• Mirror – The seas are a mirror of nature.
• Fishing boat – A working fishing boat is not romantic.
• Navigation – Imagining a place to land.
• Knots for boats – Boatmen have special knots for sails, anchors, and lines.
• Nautical terms – Words that only boatwrights and sailors use.
• “My, she was yar” – True Love was yar.
• She – Boats stil have a feminine aspect.
• Sails – Sails act as foils, not as parachutes.
• Rigs – Sailboats are distinguished by the design of their rigs.
• Sailplane – Why couldn’t a sail be devised for a boat to fly?
• Sailboat – It takes care and know-how to operate a sail.
• Sailboat living – Except for being cramped, we’re comfortable enough.
• Wooden boat – A wooden boat is less a utilitarian concern.
• Plastic kayaks – Colored kayaks are fanned out from the dock.
• Mom’s skiff – My mother was given a skiff when she was young.
• Sailboat in the garage – It’s hanging from the rafters.
• Pogo’s flat-bottom boat – Pogo Possum fishes for catfish in a flat-bottom boat.
• What is a boat? – A boat is many things.
• Tunnel of love – It’s not like a real boat.
• Types of boats
• Dugout – The earliest boat was a log, dug out.
• Dugout canoe – A cedar canoe carries the spirit of the people.
• Reed boats – Reed boats are ancient and global.
• Ribbed canoe – A boat inspired by the body.
• Coracle – More a basket than a boat.
• Tarai-bune – Three persons can sit in the tub while a woman stands to handle the oar.
• Kayak – Cover a canoe and nothing can ever sink you.
• Aleut kayak – The Aleut kayak is flexible and efficient.
• Skin hulls – Ribs with skins stretched tight are light.
• Birchbark canoe – More beautiful and more quiet than a loon.
• Plank boat – Bend the boards to fit the curve.
• Clinkers, carvels – Viking longboats were clinkers; the boats of Columbus were carvels.
• Outrigger – Adding an outrigger to a canoe made it faster and more stable.
• Waka taua – Each war canoe holds a Māori war party.
• Dhow – Boats with lateen sails carried trade far and wide.
• Dhoni – The dhoni is the traditional fishing boat of the Maldives.
• Junk – The Dragon Lady commanded a boat with bamboo battens.
• Sampan – One can live and fish on the Kirtankhola River.
• Viking longship – The boat at Sutton Hoo was a coffin for a king.
• Cog – Cogs were built of stout oak.
• Punt – You propel a punt with a pole.
• Ming Dynasty punt – The emperor sits, inspecting the dikes.
• Gondola – Gliding along the canals of romantic Venice.
• Passenger wherry – Wherries were long boats and could carry up to five passengers.
• Steamboat – Steamboat technology was resilient.
• Mississippi riverboat – The river keeps rolling along.
• Hydrofoil – Foils on struts lift its hull above the waves.
• Airboat – The airboat skims easily over the sawgrass.
• Hovercraft – Is it a boat if it floats on air over sand or sea?
• U-boat – It swims silently underwater.
• Chundan villam – The Sthapathya Veda tells the people of Kerala how to build this war canoe.
• Lifeboats – mind the women and children.
• Catboat – Winslow Homer’s catboat caught a fair wind.
• Tugboat – This tugboat is mighty and cute.
• Fireboats – Their job is to put out fires.
• Coble – This clinker-built lug-sailed open fishing boat.
• Yoal – Fishermen in the Shetland Islands bought kit boats from Norway.
• Sharpie – The sharpie is suitable for shallow tidal waters.
• Rowboat – Some crossings are more difficult than others.
• Packet boats – Horses pulled passenger boats along the Erie Canal.
• Narrowboat – People live in narrowboats along the canal in London’s Little Venice.
• Water taxi – Transportation across the harbor in cute colorful boats.
• Outboard dinghy – The outboard motor is everything.
• Cabin cruiser – You could be off to sunshine in the Caribbean.
• Pontoon boat – Ambrose Weeres invented the pontoon boat in 1951.
• Yachts – Not every yacht decorates a wealthy ego.
• Go-fast boats – “Cigar boat” seemed more appropriate.
• Bass boat – Bass fishing is not merely recreational.
• Pedalos – People pushing pedals propel pedalos.
• Racing shell – Eight men move together on Lake Union.