Pleasure craft

A pleasure boat on the Kennet and Avon Canal near the Dundas Aqueduct, Wiltshire, England.

A pleasure craft (or pleasure boat) is a boat used for personal, family, and sometimes sportsmanlike recreation. Typically such watercraft are motorized and are used for holidays, for example on a river, lake, canal or waterway. Pleasure craft are normally kept at a marina. They may include accommodation for use while moored to the bank.

In Great Britain, many narrowboats were converted into pleasure craft from their previous use for cargo transport on canals, and today the same hull style is commonly used for new pleasure craft using the canal system.

See also

• Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Pleasure barge
• Boating

External links

• United States federal requirements and safety tips for recreational boats
• UK inland waterways minimum safety requirements and safe boating advice