What appropriate boats exist between row and keel?

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The SRD (as well as the PHB and Saltmarsh) offers the following low-end water vehicles:

Rowboat, a 10 foot vessel for 50gp.
Keelboat, a 60 foot vessel for 3000gp.

There's a ridiculous gap between those two sizes & prices. What are some realistic medieval boats in that design space? Options in the ~200gp and ~800gp price ranges would be ideal.

Foo Bar · Answer

The 3.5E splatbook Stormwrack contains a complete superset of the boats in 5E. All of the PHB/GoS vessels are included and have the exact same GP costs, therefore its other boats should be usable exactly as-is, at least in terms of size, speed, & cost. The combat-specific stats are more complicated, but it should be possible to interpolate reasonable numbers.
It adds:

Coracle, Dugout, Raft, Launch, & War Canoe at the low end,
Pinnace, Barge, Cog, Dhow, Trireme, & Junk in the mid range,
Elf Wingship, Ironclad, Greatship, & Theurgeme at the high end.

Greenstone Walker · Answer

A contributor at ENWorld posted a document with a few extra ship types - caravel, cog, galleon, schooner and sloop. Its fan-made, no official, but its free and pretty good.

What appropriate boats exist between row and keel?

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