← Back to context Comment by ceejayoz 7 hours ago There's no solid definition of "boat" versus "ship", but those are clearly a different scale. 6 comments ceejayoz Reply msandford 5 hours 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 5 hours ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship calls that "a US Navy rule of thumb". emil-lp 6 hours ago A ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship. ceejayoz 6 hours ago And some ships can carry a ship.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Blue_Marlin roughly 4 hours ago Ahhh, the ship-shipping ship. There’s some great photos of it shipping ships. notahacker 6 hours ago Yeah, some of the ones mentioned are about 14' wide...
msandford 5 hours 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 5 hours ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship calls that "a US Navy rule of thumb".
emil-lp 6 hours ago A ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship. ceejayoz 6 hours ago And some ships can carry a ship.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Blue_Marlin roughly 4 hours ago Ahhh, the ship-shipping ship. There’s some great photos of it shipping ships.
ceejayoz 6 hours ago And some ships can carry a ship.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Blue_Marlin roughly 4 hours ago Ahhh, the ship-shipping ship. There’s some great photos of it shipping ships.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship calls that "a US Navy rule of thumb".
A ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship.
And some ships can carry a ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Blue_Marlin
Ahhh, the ship-shipping ship. There’s some great photos of it shipping ships.
Yeah, some of the ones mentioned are about 14' wide...