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The flat-bottomed boats are generally known, and wrongly, barges. A mistake made by the general public who amalgamated the barge, whose bottom is flat, and all other flat-bottomed boats sailing on the Seine. Nevertheless, the barge is the most used boats for navigation. It is used for its river navigation. The famous boat "fly" is a barge, whose first models were manufactured in the district of Lyon "The Fly". The name is a registered trademark.
A catamaran is a boat with two hulls, usually next to each other. The catamaran has two hulls therefore ranks in the category of multihull boats which also includes the trimaran, whose name derives. Interest multihull may be going faster through the thinner shell, increase stability, or increase the surface of the bridge. They are principally used as a sailing marina, as passenger ships cruising or high (high-speed ferries) and for some military projects. On this type of boat, you will feel drag on the Seine for a walk in comfort.
Their common point: they are hulled vessels powered, fast and light. Previously, the military or the police used it vessel as recognition in harbors, ship or messenger. On the Seine, the Patache are used to stroll more sports, less contemplative. Quite small, they are more suited to private cruises. Larger and more spacious, the stars and frigates welcome more passengers. These ships offer a different way to travel on the Seine, combining the pleasure of motorization boatmen and walks maritime Paris. The most luxurious boat that runs the Seine is probably the yacht, pleasure craft par excellence, converts into river boat cruise. This building lightweight, thin and quick is a must for walking approval.
The boat wheel is the famous ship of the Mississippi, a large steam fitted with wheels that drive the water to move forward. It is the United States, on the Mississippi and Missouri, that these boats have sailed past mainly. Their hull plate to be weak draft that we sometimes encounter these two great rivers. The boat wheel is slower than the boat propeller, and cruise on board looks like a walk of another age.
