What is the model of these boats?

Each type of boat works in a different way. You are asking a wrong question. If you need a boat that has to fulfill a particular use or service, we can give you some examples. However, a boat that has to simply float for a day with three people on board in flat water, is completely different from a boat carrying 30 people for several months in open water.

 

Yeah I bet that's the case. To make it short, because I cannot leak the whole story, this flood is supposed to affect the whole planet and being almost a permanent thing. People should survive for years on these boats. The point is tho that it was something that happened abruptly and the many survivors are having problems because the majority of these boats are, obviously, not suited for staying out on the sea for so long (plus other problems but I cannot disclose more, sorry). Also, many of these boats are supposed to be fisherman boats, with some exceptions like cruises where people happened to be at the time of the flood.

 

You need boats with sails to survive for years. The diesel engined boats you originally showed us are not capable of carrying more than a week or three worth of fuel, and then you are at the mercy of winds, currents and waves with little control over direction and no running engine to run from danger with.

Electric with solar or wind generators is barely feasible, so boats with masts and sails will be your major option to overcome the fuel hurdle. Sailing boats of all sizes are still extremely popular, and come in an abundance of types and styles.

You may need to consider how you will keep these people supplied with food and drinking water during years at sea. Some boats do have desalination units, also called "watermakers", though they do not do that.

 

With the information you supply it is not possible to give you relevant information. However, you can assume that only those with knowledge of boat operation and repair, good at fishing, have weapons with ammo, and possibly the most violent, are the ones that will survive. Otherwise, you are asking how long is a string.

 

Sorry but I'm not the writer, it's not a story about pirates or raw human violence, the actual point is another one but, as I said before, I cannot give any more information about it. However thank you for your opinion, I'll see what I can do.

 

@Pinopinoppi
Are you from North America or South America?
And why so vague?

 

I think it is not possible to answer the question.

 

No particular reason. I just don't like giving out my personal info, willy-nilly on the internet.
Especially since I just wanted to ask a small question to actual human people that understand something that I don't over a topic that I need to research to tackle a small project, instead of relying on AI that would've probably just answered me with: "those are fishing boats".
And everybody helped me a lot so I'm really grateful.

 

Yeah, I said pretty much the same to the writer about the problem with fuel and everything else and we already came up with some solutions but thank for pointing that out. Since the story is happening on an "Alternative Earth" with some pretty big changes I don't think will face too many problems. As I said, I mostly want to understand how an actual boat works before making changes to it. Thank you a lot for confirming to me about desalination units, that was one way I thought about tackling the lack of water.

 

Thank you everybody for the help, I think this are more than enough references for me to understand what I needed to.
Thank you all for your time.