Klaus Ole Kristiansen
>Imagine a Brown Vadeli boat foreman explaining that he is not a captain,
>since he only commands a boat, not a ship. His 200 feet 3 masted boat
>is easily distinguishable from a ship by the shape of the stern and the
>symbols cut into the main mast.
A ship is READILY distinguishable from a boat. The
definition (both in many dictionaries and amongst the Vadeli) is,
simply, that a ship carries boats aboard it.
Sandy P.