The phrase "drive a boat" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to the act of operating a boat with a motor or paddle. You can use it in both formal and informal contexts. Example: I was so excited when I finally got to drive a boat for the first time.
At Röszke, on the Hungarian-Serbian border, Hassan, a 30-year-old IT engineer from Syria, said smugglers had forced him to drive a boat full of fellow migrants from Turkey to Greece.
The New Yorker, February 10 , 1934P. 11 The knowledge that somebody has hit upon a wholly new idea of using the wind to drive a boat is most encouraging and heady.
Failing that, you could always just not drive a boat anywhere near Somalia.
Not everyone who knows how to drive a boat know how to sail, but anyone with certified sailing instruction will know the fundamentals of driving a boat.
Sarsgaard often drove a boat even when he wasn't on camera, and Fanning pitched in with her costars and the crew when bags of fertilizer needed to be moved in haste due to a change in schedule.
When you let your mind follow the siren call of the senses, they carry away your better judgment as a cyclone drives a boat off the charted course to its doom.
5. Coolest mode of transport you've taken: A couple of months ago I got to drive a fan boat through the Everglades.
It's a very happy memory, because the Broads are like heaven on earth and everything that's good about Britain in one place – honesty boxes and pubs every mile and being able to drive a great massive boat with no licence.
3. Driving a rocket boat down the Thames then dropping on to the Millennium Dome from a hot air balloon.
Mike Duffy, Port Captain for Circle Line Sightseeing at 42nd Street, said he drove a similar boat for 10 years and thought it was unlikely that it would have created a wake high enough to cause such an accident.
"I'm quite neutral about it all, actually," he says, which seems quite baffling for a man who has volunteered his time and his boat to drive a load of Vote In protestors in front of Nigel Farage all morning.
