The Venetian fleet is made up of hundreds of different types of vessel, some that are strictly local, others influenced by riverboats and vessels of the Adriatic. This makes it difficult to create a definitive classification and 'taxonomy', or even to define what is traditional and what is not. Therefore the only discriminant we have posed is the use: if a certain type boat takes root and 'reproduces' for a certain length of time it becomes, for us, automatically traditional.