= marina or yacht harbour → 1F6A3 🚣 rowboat ⁓ 26F5 FE0E text style ⁓ 26F5 FE0F emoji style
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The sailboat emoji is your passport to ocean-core vibes: freedom, breezes, and that dramatic “I’m quitting to live on a boat” energy. People drop it for vacations, seaside daydreams, or the classic smooth sailing flex when life finally stops being extra. It’s also prime for wordplay—pair it with a heart and it becomes ship it, whether you’re talking code deploys or celebrity couples. Expect it in captions about sea shanties, yacht rock playlists, or a cheeky Moana/Pirates of the Caribbean reference when someone’s about to be a menace on open water.
On Apple devices, it’s a clean little dinghy with crisp white sails (main sail plus a tiny jib), a slim mast, and stylized blue waves underneath; a small red pennant often caps the mast, and the hull pops with warm tones for that glossy iOS look. The slight angle of the sails gives it a breezy, in-motion feel you can practically hear creaking. In chats, it swings from zen (calm seas, mental reset) to sarcastic (posting ⛵ after a chaotic day like “totally fine, everything’s... coasting”). Flirty DMs use it as “let’s sail away” energy, while weekend warriors slap it on Stories to announce marina selfies and sunburns incoming.
Definition
A wind powered watercraft with two sails. Must be manned by more than one person.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]
