When I was a kid, I learned that the difference between a ship and a boat is a ship can hold a boat on board but a boat cannot hold a ship on board. Is this basically correct?
When I was a kid, I learned that the difference between a ship and a boat is a ship can hold a boat on board but a boat cannot hold a ship on board. Is this basically correct?
That is exactly the way I have heard guys in white uniforms with a lot of stuff on the epaulets explain it to guys in shorts with wing tips and dark knee socks.
Dab gum it, the imagery you just created tickled the crud out of me. I have, for years, characterized the typical tourist from Kansas (sorry folks) visiting Yosemite with pasty white skin, bermuda shorts, a "happy face"
t-shirt, black socks, deck shoes, and a Disneyland fishing hat with a camera (poloroid) dangling around his neck!
I once said that to one of my college professors who quickly informed me that he and Mrs. Rombold were from Kansas.
Originally posted by oppis:
IŽll give you the explanation from the Radiance Captain, because heŽs always upset, when people name his ship a boat.
A ship has a norwegian captain, a boat has a frustrated husband,
Not my words, but I like the explanation.
Best regards
oppis
I'm not sure what it means but I like it.
Being ex Navy the definition in the original post is what I understand to be correct. But it is not always intuitive. I was on the Thomas Hart a Destroyer Escort that had 138 men and carried ASROC missles. It was classified by the Navy as a BOAT. I suppose you could pick it up and place it on the deck of a Carrier if you wanted.
I'm not sure what it means but I like it. 
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