A car-boat is a boat

Boat

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 or marine

Ocean

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 vessel built from, or powered by, an automobile

Automobile

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 chassis

Chassis

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 and engine

Engine

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. They have recently become well-known in the United States

United States

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 media

Mass media

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 for being the vehicle ridden by a number of Cuba

Cuba

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ns who have attempted to emigrate to the United States

United States

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 by water. The term taxi-boat has also been used for a car-boat built from a taxi

Taxicab

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.

Another example of a car-boat is the Aquada; earlier examples of this "car-boat" have been around since the 1950s.

See also

• Cuba
  Cuba
  The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
  
  
• United States Coast Guard
  United States Coast Guard
  The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...
  
  
• Department of Homeland Security
• Florida
  Florida
  Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
  
  
• Boat people
  Boat people
  Boat people is a term that usually refers to refugees, illegal immigrants or asylum seekers who emigrate in numbers in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made...
  
  
• Amphibious vehicle
  Amphibious vehicle
  An amphibious vehicle , is a vehicle or craft, that is a means of transport, viable on land as well as on water – just like an amphibian....
  
  
• Dutton Duck
  Dutton Cars
  Dutton Cars, based in Worthing, Sussex, England, was a maker of kit cars between 1970 and 1989. In terms of numbers of kits produced, it was for a time the largest kit car manufacturer in the world....