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There's no solid definition of "boat" versus "ship", but those are clearly a different scale.

• notahacker 4mo ago
  Yeah, some of the ones mentioned are about 14' wide...
• emil-lp 4mo ago
  A ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship.
  • ceejayoz 4mo ago
    And some ships can carry a ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Blue_Marlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Blue_Marlin
    • roughly 4mo ago
      Ahhh, the ship-shipping ship. There’s some great photos of it shipping ships.
• msandford 4mo ago
  I always thought it had to do with which way the vessel leaned while turning. Boats will lean into the turn, ships out. I guess that really only tells you if that's a displacement hull or planing hull, though.
  • ceejayoz 4mo ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship calls that "a US Navy rule of thumb".