Hiya, and welcome to PlaneShift.
Hope you have fun here.

I\'m not sure about boats and things really; stuff like that is being left untill they are a higher priority. Right now the focus is on creating a stable, lag-free world and implementing the basics such as combat, magic, jobs, skills etc.
Also, Beta is a long way off yet. We arn\'t even in Alpha currently, although there is speculation that the next release, Crystal Blue, will infact be Alpha. We certainly won\'t see Beta for a year or more, and considering this is an ever-evolving, open-source project, there most likely won\'t ever be a final version.