Amos, that song is "the Liza Jane had a new fore truck, 'twas a fine piece o' wood but it wouldn't stay stuck". Good song too.

I think we are straying from the original premise of the thread. Quite a few of the songs mentioned above are not about boats but about the sailors on the boats.

One more: Rocks of Baccalieu - a song about a near miss in a snow squall.