Indeed. Despite no reason to think anyone should care, I hope I explained why ‘created’ did the work to avoid that - for me, at least.
Really? I would not. I would take or catch a ferry to an island or create a ferry for getting to an island. But I spent half my career editing and writing English such that it would be utterly unambiguous for people whose first reading language was not English. It’s amazing how many good English writers would write things that WERE ambiguous and could have been better written if they’d stopped to think about their audience for two seconds.
That’s also the task of the headline writer.
