How to make a boat symbol in latex?

Question

I would like to make a motorboat/boat/raft/ship symbol in LaTex but cannot find a command for one. I know there is \Plane in bbding dingbats which gives the symbol for plane. But I dont see anything for boat or similar.

Any help on this will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Can we cheat?

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}

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~}

\begin{document}

This is my boat \myboat

\end{document}

Answer 2

Just found a dugout:

% arara: lualatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\rotatebox[origin=c]{45}{\faPhone}
\end{document}

% arara: lualatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\[
\begin{array}{c}
\rotatebox[origin=c]{45}{\faPhone}\\[-14.5pt]
\scalebox{0.4}{\faUser}\\[-4pt]
\widetilde{}\quad\widetilde{}\quad\widetilde{}\quad\widetilde{}\\[-10pt]
\widetilde{}\quad\widetilde{}\quad\widetilde{}
\end{array}
\]
\end{document}

Edit:

Here some earnest symbols:

The font Quivira contains a sail boat and a ferry. The font Symbola contains them also as well as a speedboat, a ship, and a rowing boat:

% arara: lualatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\begin{document}
    \setmainfont{quivira.otf}
    \symbol{"26F5}\symbol{"26F4}

    \setmainfont{symbola.ttf}
    \symbol{"26F5}\symbol{"26F4}\symbol{"1F6A4}\symbol{"1F6A2}\symbol{"1F6A3}
\end{document}

Unicode 7.0 gives us two more symbols. A passenger ship and a motor boat:

% arara: lualatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\begin{document}
    \setmainfont{symbola.ttf}
    \symbol{"1F6F3}\symbol{"1F6E5}
\end{document}

Credits to "Symbol 1" for mentioning the package phaistos:

% arara: pdflatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{phaistos}

\begin{document}
\PHship
\end{document}

Answer 3

The Unicode symbol for a sailboat is U+26F5, so \char"26F5 should work in LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX. If you have an emoji font that contains this glyph, you might want to make an alias for that font with \newfontface from fontspec. MWE (if you have Symbola):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\newfontface\emojifont{Symbola} % Or another font containing emoji
\newcommand\boat{{\emojifont \char"26F5}}

\begin{document}
This is my boat: \boat.  Isn't it grand?
\end{document}