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means The skill and know-how needed to handle a boat or move through water safely — and also a word for boats themselves.

from A straightforward compound of 'water' and 'craft,' where 'craft' carries its old sense of 'skill' or 'art' (as in 'the craft of writing') — the same root that gives us 'crafty.' The word stretches to cover vessels too, since 'craft' has meant 'boat' since sailors started calling their ships by the skill it took to build and sail them.