We’ve all seen the video of the battleship hitting that massive wave, but how can ships take that much of a beating/that much water and stay afloat and in one piece? Smaller boats for recreational use would almost all sink if they were to stuff their bow on a proportionately sized wave so what’s the difference?
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Ocean-going ships have specially reinfoced bow areas made of steel. Underneath the skin of a ships bow are a LOT of reinforcing steel beams, and the skin itself is sometimes made of thicker steel than the rest of the hull.
A proportionally sized pleasure boat is almost surely made of fiberglass or even wood, which is just not as strong.
Basically: ships are designed to stand up to anything short of a hurricane or a rogue wave, and the material/construction is made in service of that.
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