• 19 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

Boat ASCII

Tap a boat or ship to copy every line; the first has a hull you can type a name on.

Boat ASCII

|\ | \ | \ | \ |____\ _______|__________ \ YOUR WORDS / ~~~~\______________/~~~~Boat with your words8 lines, 24 wideReady to copy

19 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 4

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 11

Next step Next: fish and sea life

How it works

Boat ASCII pieces drawn for this page: 19 originals, ten boats and nine ship pieces, with sailboats, a tall ship, a steamship, a tugboat, a paper boat, an anchor and a ship in a bottle.

Read the full guide

Sailboat text art and other small boats

Sailboat, two sails is eight lines; Small sailboat is four. A rowboat with two oars, a tugboat with three fenders and a paper boat are here too. On Boat with your words, type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, along the hull.

ASCII art ship pieces, sail and steam

Tall ship, three masts stacks square sails as brackets. Steamship with two funnels has five portholes. For oil tanker ship text art, Oil tanker ship, side view is a long low hull, 32 columns, with three tank domes and the bridge at the stern.

  • A boat using keyboard symbols on one row: Sailboat on one line puts the digit 4 on a hull as mast and sail.
  • For a ship using keyboard symbols with no spaces, copy Squash-proof ship: two funnels, two portholes and a hull.
  • Sea characters to copy one at a time are on ocean symbols.

Questions and answers

Do you have text art sinking ship pieces?

One: Sinking ship, stern up. The hull is tipped on end and sliding under the water, with two portholes and bubbles beside it. It is a cartoon, not a real ship.

Which ASCII art boat is the smallest?

Squash-proof sailboat, three rows of six characters: a mast, a sail and a hull. Small sailboat is four lines and nine columns. On a single row, Sailboat on one line is 13 characters.

What does an ASCII ship need to look right?

A monospaced font, where every character is the same width; in other fonts the masts and funnels slide off the hull. Six pieces here are squash-proof for boxes that fold spaces.

What is a ship's steering wheel called?

A ship's wheel: Wikipedia's article says it is the device with which a helmsman steers the vessel. Ship's wheel here has a hub, eight spokes and a handle on each.

All 19 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Boat with your words A sailboat with one sail, the name painted along its hull. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 16 with the padding. 8 lines, 24 wide.

One line 3

  • Canoe boat on one line A long low hull turned up at both ends, with two paddlers in it, each a head and a paddle. 1 line, 19 wide.
  • Sailboat on one line A hull of slashes and underscores with the digit 4 standing in as mast and sail. 1 line, 13 wide.
  • Ship on one line A hull carrying two cabins and a funnel, with water at both ends. 1 line, 17 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 4

  • Small sailboat Four lines: a mast with a pennant, one sail and a shallow hull. 4 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof rowboat Two oars, a hull and a row of waves, with no space in it. 3 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof sailboat A mast, a sail and a hull, with periods where the sky would be. 3 lines, 6 wide.
  • Squash-proof ship Two funnels, a cabin with two portholes and a hull, with no space in it. 3 lines, 9 wide.
Show all 19 pieces (11 more)

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 11

  • Oil tanker ship, side view A long low hull with three tank domes on deck, a mast at the bow and the bridge at the stern. 5 lines, 32 wide.
  • Paper boat A folded boat: a tall peak in the middle with one crease down it and a wide hull. 6 lines, 17 wide.
  • Rowboat with two oars An open boat with an oar sticking up and out on each side. 5 lines, 24 wide.
  • Sailboat, two sails A mast with a small sail in front of it and a larger one behind, on a deep hull. 8 lines, 18 wide.
  • Ship anchor A ring at the top, a crossbar, a long shank and two curved arms ending in points. 9 lines, 15 wide.
  • Ship in a bottle A bottle lying on its side with a small sailboat inside and the neck to the right. 5 lines, 32 wide.
  • Ship's wheel A round wheel with a hub, eight spokes and a handle on the end of each. 7 lines, 16 wide.
  • Sinking ship, stern up A hull tipped on end and sliding under, with two portholes and a few bubbles. 7 lines, 24 wide.
  • Steamship with two funnels Two smoking funnels over a row of cabin windows, with five portholes along the hull. 7 lines, 27 wide.
  • Tall ship, three masts Three masts with three square sails each, the sails drawn as stacked brackets, on a long hull. 8 lines, 28 wide.
  • Tugboat with a funnel A short, deep boat with a cabin of two windows, a funnel and three round fenders. 7 lines, 22 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02 (two were redrawn on 2026-10-03), shown in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book, game or brand is drawn. Drafts that did not read as their subject in the picture were redrawn or left out; the 19 kept are the page. Read on 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-03 in Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): the article Ship's wheel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_wheel) says it is the device with which a helmsman steers the vessel; the article Tugboat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugboat) says a tugboat moves other vessels by pushing or pulling them. No real ship is drawn or named. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work

More tools

Show 8 more

Browse Text styles