What is the difference between a ship and a boat ? Please.?

Question

What is the difference between a ship and a boat ? Please.?

Answer 1

A BOT IS ANY VESSEL THAT CAN BE TRANSPORTED BY ANOTHER VESSEL...WHEN THE BOAT CANNOT BE TRANSPORTED BY ANY OTHER VESSEL IT IS A SHIP

Answer 2

Ships are commercial ones such as cruise liners, oil tankers or cargo vessels. Of course they've loa much more than average loa of 10-60 feets which is great for most common boat types. Thats the main difference - size and purpose.

Answer 3

Ships are bigger than boats. The easy way to remember it is that a ship can carry boats, but a boat can't carry ships.

Answer 4

WHY

Answer 5

Well, we could get technical, I suppose. Among sailing vessels, the distinction between ships and boats is that a ship is a square-rigged craft with at least three masts, and a boat isn't. With regard to motorized craft, a ship is a large vessel intended for oceangoing or at least deep-water transport, and a boat is anything else.

But that's too much to remember. Try this: ships have to be big enough to carry boats, and boats have to be small enough to be carried by ships

Answer 6

£200,000.

Answer 7

According to Sunseeker (the ship yard that builds more boats/ships per year than any other) anything they build over 100 feet long is a called a ship.

To me this is an irrelevant question - I give way to all of them in my 28 foot sailboat!!

Cheers Bigpathome.

Answer 8

ships are generally larger than boats