Ever noticed that when people are speaking about boats or ships, that they are usually spoken of as a female? The reason is often explained that due to the strong bond between sailors (who are still primarily male) and their ships. Sailors who were often at sea for months or years at a stretch, were said to tend to their ships as tenderly as they would a woman. The relationship between a sailor and their ship was a marriage of sorts, where the sailor depended on the ship for its sole support of their income and how well the ship itself took care of it’s sailors on all their voyages.
Only in France are ships referred to in a masculin manner.
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