What is BOAT? Definition of BOAT in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars or rowing.
It is commonly distinguished in law from a ship or vessel, by being of smaller size and without a deck. The Saxon, D.C.S.C., 269 F. 639, 641. But "boat" and "vessel" are often used synonymously. Southern Pac. Co. v. Jensen, 244 U.S. 205, 37 S. Ct. 524, 527, 61 L. Ed. 1086, L.R.A. 1918C, 451. And see State v. Hutchins, 79 N.H. 132, 105 A 519, 521, 2 A.L.R. 1685 ("boats and rafts" held broad enough to cover all water craft, not merely small rowboats). The verb "boat" means to go in a boat. Chappell v. Commercial Casualty Ins. Co., 120 W.Va. 262, 197 S.E. 723,
International rule that sailing vessels shall keep out of way of sailing vessels or boats fishing with nets or lines or trawls does not apply to craft 55 feet long equipped with machinery powerful enought to handle a trawl which would ordinarily be decked over, would have living accommodations for crew, etc. International Rules, art. 26, 33 U.S.C.A. § 111. The Virginia and Joan, C.C.A.Mass., 86 F.2d 259, 261. Seaplanes equipped with pontoons or hulls having hydroplaning surfaces are "hydroplane boats" though provided with wings. Fauber v. United States, Ct. Cl., 37 F.Supp. 415, 435.
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