Talk:Sailboat

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Sailing re-organization effort

Take a minute to read the comments at Talk:Sailing#Re-write effort -- non how-to et seq. Some of us are working on re-organizing the sailing-related articles. See if you agree with our approach and give us some help. And a big hello dawg to you, dawg. Mrees1997 19:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

merging to saling ships

This makes no sense sine the topics are vastly unrelated —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kevin Murray (talk • contribs) 19:33, 10 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Agreed. Sailboat and sailing ship only share the word sail and thereby the means of propulsion. One look at the pages demonstrates that one is about a now largely outmoded form of transport whereas the second is about a thriving leisure pursuit. One is largely about 200 year old mercantile and warfare issues of large craft the other about a long and still thriving activity by smaller craft manned largely by enthusiasts. Facius 11:07, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Images

It looks like there are way too many images on this page; I think we should consider removing some of them, or adding a lot more text. - Davandron | Talk 14:00, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

---As a sailing school instructor, I have found that images go a long way in explaining the many subtle differences between types of boats. -jcsimms

Four-master

There is an article Four-master with this text "Four-master: Large four masted sailboat.", it is unreferenced and orphaned. I do not have enough knowledge about the subject to suggest improvement, merge, or deletion. Jeepday (talk) 02:08, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sailing boat

There is no such word as sailing-boat, it is sailing boat. Google sailing-boat and you’ll get sailing boat! Type in sailing boat and Microsoft word 2007 will not prompt a respelling. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.110.226 (talk) 17:10, 26 January 2008 (UTC) See - http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/sailingboat?view=uk[reply]

Merge

I propose a merge with sailing ship as both ship and both are basically the same. See wikipedia's ship-article and wikipedia boat-article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KVDP (talk • contribs) 11:19, 22 August 2008

I'm removing the merge tag as per the argument above, because this seems to have come up before and not gone anywhere. On one level, your merge proposal makes perfect sense; but, as Facius said, modern recreational sailing craft and Age of Sail working vessels (and reproductions, etc) are really apples and oranges. The sailing ship article (although it is, yes, partly about sailboats) also has a huge potential for expansion, and would probably end up getting split into a separate article anyway. If anyone disagrees, though, feel free to re-add the merge tag. --Fullobeans (talk) 19:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you could rename the article then to eg Recreational sailboat and the sailing ship article to "historical sailboat". Anyone supporting this ? 81.244.205.152 (talk) 10:19, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I proposed something similar at Talk:Sailing ship a few days ago. No responses yet. The best way to get some more opinions on this is probably to bring it up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships, but I haven't gotten around to doing so yet. Feel free to beat me to it. --Fullobeans (talk) 17:30, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]