Kayak boat or ?

I work with a couple guys who claim their "Kayaks" are "BOATS." How many of you consider this to be a true statement?

From dictionary.com

Boat:
- A relatively small, usually open craft of a size that might be carried aboard a ship.
- An inland vessel of any size.
- A ship or submarine.

sounds like a boat to me. Technically you could probably call a floating beer bottle a boat ...

last I checked you sit in it and it floats. A kayak may not be a "power boat" but they are definitely boats.

If they call their kayaks boats, just start calling your boat a ship, lol.

mark d,

The problem with that is that a kayak actually is a boat, whereas a wakeboard boat is certainly not a ship.

KAYAK:
1. An Inuit or Eskimo boat consisting of a light wooden frame covered with watertight skins except for a single or double opening in the center, and propelled by a double-bladed paddle.
2. A lightweight canoe that is similar in design.

CANOE:
A light, open, slender boat that has pointed ends and is propelled by paddles.

SHIP:
1. A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.
2. A sailing vessel having three or more square-rigged masts.

Mikeski,

I would agree with your post except for the beer bottle thing. I'd say to qualify as a vessel (nautical term) or craft, it would have to carry at least one person.

Well, the term "considerable size" is certainly open to interpertation. As for the three masts...would three high polls work? lol

considerable: "Large in amount, extent, or degree"

I certainly wouldn't call a wakeboard boat a large vessel. Consider the sizes of these vessels:

Oil Tanker (large extreme): 1500 x 250 x 200 = 75 million cubic feet

Wakeboard boat: 20 x 8 x 4 = 640 cubic feet

Kayak (small extreme): 6 x 3 x 2 = 36 cubic feet

So the wakeboard boat would be at about the .00085th percentile when it comes to vessel size.

What is scary are the number of people that either don't know or don't care about right of way.