This is a list of boat types. For sailing ships, see: List of sailing boat types
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A
B
- Banana boat (merchant)
- Banana boat (recreational)
- Barge
- Bass boat
- Boita
- Bow rider
- Bracera
- Bragozzo
- Brig
- Brigantine
- Bucentaur
C
- Cabin cruiser
- Cruise ship
- Cable ferry
- Canoe
- Cape Islander
- Captain's gig
- Car-boat
- Car float
- Catamaran
- Center console
- Chundan vallam
- Coble
- Cog
- Coracle
- Cornish pilot gig
- Crash rescue boat
- Cuddy boat
- Cutter
- Currach (sp. to West of Ireland and Scotland)
D
- Dhow
- Dhoni
- Dinghy
- Dorna
- Dory
- Dragon boat
- Drift boat
- Drifter (fishing)
- Drifter (naval)
- Dugout
- Durham boat
E
F
G
- Galley
- Galleon
- Gallivat
- Galway hooker
- Garbage scow
- Gig (boat)
- Go-fast boat
- Gondola
- Gunboat
- Gundalow
- Great Lakes freighter
H
I
J
K
L
- Lafitte skiff
- Launch
- Landing craft
- Lifeboat
- Lighter
- Liner
- LNG carrier
- Log boat
- Langschiff
- Longboat
- Longship
- Longtail
- Lugger
- Luxury yacht
M
- Mackinaw boat
- Masula boat
- Missile boat
- Monitor
- Motorboat
- Motor Launch (naval)
- Mini Gascogna
N
O
P
- Padded V-hull
- Paddle steamer
- Patrol boat
- Pedalo (paddle boat)
- Personal water craft (PWC)
- Pinnace (ship's boat)
- Pink (ship)
- Pirogue
- Pleasure barge
- Pleasure craft
- Police watercraft
- Pontoon
- Powerboat
- Pram (boat)
- Pram (ship)
- Proa
- Pump boat
- Punt
Q
R
- Raft
- Reaction ferry
- Recreational trawler
- Reed boat
- Replenishment oiler
- Rigid-hulled inflatable
- Riverboat
- Rodney boat
- Roll-on/roll-off ship
- Rowboat
- Runabout
S
- Sailboat
- Sampan
- Schooner
- Scow
- Sea kayak and Kayak
- Shad boat
- Shallop
- Sharpie
- Shikara
- Ship's tender
- Ski boat
- Skiff
- Skipjack
- Smack (ship)
- Small-craft sailing
- Slipper Launch
- Sloop
- Speed boat
- Special Operations Craft – Riverine (SOC-R)
- Steam boat
- Submarine
- Surf boat
- Surfboard
- Swift boat
T
- Tanker
- Tarai Bune
- Tartane
- Tjotter
- Torpedo boat
- Tour boat
- Towboat
- Trabaccolo
- Trailer sailor
- Train ferry
- Trimaran
- Trireme
- Trawler (fishing)
- Trawler (naval)
- Trawler (recreational)
- Trow
- Tugboat