List of boat types

This is a list of boat types. For sailing ships, see: List of sailing boat types.

• Airboat
• Banana boat (merchant)
• Banana boat (recreational)
• Barge
• Bass boat
• Bathtub Boat
• Boita
• Bow rider
• Bracera
• Cabin cruiser
• Cable ferry
• Canoe
• Cape Islander
• Car-boat
• Car float
• Catamaran
• Center console
• Coble
• Coracle
• Crash rescue boat
• Cruise ship
• Cuddy boat
• Cutter
• Dinghy
• Dory
• Dragger
• Dragon boat
• Drift boat
• Drifter (fishing)
• Drifter (naval)
• Dugout
• Durham boat
• Electric boat
• Express cruiser
• Ferry
• Fireboat
• Fishing boat (contemporary)
• Fishing boat (traditional)
• Float tube
• Flyak
• Flying boat
• Folding boat
• Friendship sloop
• Full rigged pinnace
• Garbage scow
• Go-fast boat
• Gondola
• Gundalow
• Great Lakes freighter
• Houseboat
• Hovercraft

• Hydrofoil
• Hydroplane
• Ice boat
• Inflatable boat
• Jetboat
• Jet ski
• Jon boat
• Junk
• Kayak and Sea kayak
• Ketch
• Launch
• Landing craft
• Lifeboat
• Lighter
• Log boat
• Langschiff
• Longboat
• Longship
• Longtail
• Lugger
• Luxury yacht
• Mackinaw boat
• Masula boat
• Missile boat
• Monitor
• Motorboat
• Motor Launch (naval)
• Narrowboat
• Nordland
• Norfolk wherry
• Oil Tanker
• Optimist
• Outrigger canoe
• Padded V-hull
• Paddle steamer
• Patrol boat
• Personal water craft (PWC)
• Pinnace (ship's boat)
• Pirogue
• Pleasure barge
• Pleasure craft
• Police watercraft
• Pontoon
• Powerboat
• Pram (boat)
• Pram (ship)
• Proa
• Pump boat
• Punt
• Raft
• Reaction ferry
• Recreational trawler

• Reed boat
• Rigid-hulled inflatable
• Riverboat
• Runabout
• Rowboat
• Sailboat
• Sampan
• Schooner
• Scow
• Sea kayak and Kayak
• Shad boat
• Shallop
• Sharpie
• Shikara
• Ship
• Ship's tender
• Ski boat
• Skiff
• Skipjack
• Steam boat
• Slipper Launch
• Sloop
• Speed boat
• Submarine
• Supertanker
• Surf boat
• Swift boat
• Tarai Bune
• Tjotter
• Torpedo boat
• Towboat
• Train ferry
• Trimaran
• Trawler (fishing)
• Trawler (naval)
• Trawler (recreational)
• Tugboat
• U-boat
• Umiak
• Very Slender Vessel
• Waka
• Wakeboard boat
• Walkaround
• Water ambulance
• Water taxi
• Weidling
• Whaleboat
• Yacht
• Yawl