Small but study

utilitarian and responsive like Emily Miller speeding a supply delivery

nameless but functional and versatile

reliable and fast like Evening Light

or  Wolf River ex Susan Miller hurrying to a survey

Check out Kennebec Captain‘s quiz on the difference between a ship and a boat; I added a link to my blogroll.

Also, unrelated here but YahooNews spoke of an attack off Yemen, here’s a foto of the tanker Takayama.