New York State is full of wonderful sightseeing options along its rivers, lakes and canals. There are plentiful opportunities to book group tours or to explore these attractions in a private boat. more »
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New York State is full of wonderful sightseeing options along its rivers, lakes and canals. There are plentiful opportunities to book group tours or to explore these attractions in a private boat. more »
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A boat is a watercraft of modest size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water. Usually this water will be inland (lakes) or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In naval terms, a boat is something small enough to be carried aboard another vessel (a ship). Strictly speaking and quite uniquely a submarine is a boat as defined by the Royal Navy. Some boats too large for the naval definition include the Great Lakes freighter, riverboat, narrowboat and ferryboat.
History
Boats have served as short distance transportation since early times.d1>Denemark 2000, page 208 Circumstantial evidence, such as the early settlement of Australia over 40,000 years ago, suggests that boats have been used since very ancient times. The earliest boats have been predictedMcGrail11>
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Boats played an important part in the commerce between the Indus Valley Civilization and Mesopotamia.McGrail251>McGrail 2004, page 251 Evidence of varying models of boats has also been discovered in various Indus Valley sites.McGrail/>
The accounts of historians Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, and Strabo suggest that boats were being used for commerce and traveling.McGrail>McGrail 2004, pages 50-51
Types
Boats can be categorised into three types:
* unpowered or human-powered boats
* sailing boats
* motorboats
Unpowered boats i read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat
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