If a zeppelin is an airship, does that mean it can carry airboats?
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I had to abandon our relationship. It just didnât float my boat.
Outside some strictly factual subjects, Wikipedia tends to be just the collection of opinions of its editors, and who the editors are is up to luck. So go with what you think, because itâs very obvious that custom and practice vary. I take my usage from Lloyds; basically does something have to have ship navigation lights or not? But thatâs my preference only.
Subs are a special case â theyâre always called boats, by tradition.
Other than that, a good rule of thumb might be: Can you haul it out of the water with a truck? Then itâs definitely a boat. Even there you get into edge cases like megayachts. I guess those would be their own class, neither boat nor ship.
You hardly need edge cases. The standard French péniche is a boat weighing around 300 tonnes. Then someone above defines a boat as something which can be carried on a ship. Terra Marique/Inland Navigator would also present problems with truck haulage, though you can carry quite a few trucks on Terra Marique.
Of course we then get into the definition of barge. And yacht, which is a whole other ball game; originally it was a flat bottomed warship for use in the shallow waters around Holland and the Netherlands.
Like I say, each to his own on this one.
Both, seems likely.
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Since posting this Iâve been made aware that Mitford wasnât a snob. Quite the reverse.
I am also beginning to think the Wikipedia article on U and non-U is itself a send-up, intended to create a false narrative that some people will accept without thinking.
Too much Umberto Eco perhaps makes one overly suspicious, but the Wikipedia article reads like an English translation of Eco.
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