"at <a href=""http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG-X23aVud0&amp;t=2m12s"">2:12</a> you called HMS Middleton a boat", I suggest you go back and apologise to her, she is a ship not a boat.,(reply>), a ship is just a big boat,(reply>), From what I've heard it's anything that floats is a boat. And a ship is well a ship.,(reply>), "Boat" in this case in an affectionate diminutive.,(reply>), JimPlaysGames old comment response, I know, but the actual distinction between boats and ships is that ships have bulkheads, boats do not.,(reply>), @Stu Bur not correct. You are confusing rig descriptors with vessel descriptors