Boats in Venice are long, skinny and stylish. They vary slightly depending on what function they perform.
Traditional ,cool and stylish
Fast and stylish.
Fast, wooden and stylish.
Yellow Vaporetto.
Airport taxi.
Cool and wooden.
High speed transport
Service station
Italian Cool
Foreign invader
Two men in boat with a pole.
Ugly
Sewerage barge
Work barge
Happy work boat
Black vaporetto.
Goods barge
Courier Barge
Garbage Barge
New Vaporetta
Old Vaporetto
Middle aged vaporetto
Very long boat
Color coordinated delivery barge
Work Barge Figure Head.
Splashing Paint 
I’m looking forward to seeing what you paint!
Wonderful photos, and a wonderful post! I, too, was fascinated by the endless variety of boats in Venice but didn’t think to catalog them as painstakingly as you have. Brilliant idea.
Thanks for this – I might have painted a garbage boat without even knowing- with a romantic couple on board. Beautiful pictures. In Honolulu, I am viewing them before they were posted thru the magic of time zones.
How did you do it, with a lot patience John.
Thank You, kept the photos coming.
Never knew that there were so many different kinds of boats in Venice, you certainly had a lot of patience photographing them all,I look forward to the photos you send.
Hi John, we just sent our son to Spain and Italy as a graduation gift. Lucky kid huh? He rode in some of these boats. Can’t wait to forward these great photos to him. What an array…. and captured by your sensitive eye. Love this series!
Wow, what a graduation present – I’m sure he will love every minute of it.
Cheers
John
Venice is definitely a place I need to visit before I die. One of those places that will be looked back upon as once being there. Crazy.