A magical sailboat

[mlangsdorf]

For a canoe, you could also enchant the oars with Dancing Object and possibly Password. A crewman would be needed to man a steering oar or tiller, but the oars could propel the craft.

A sailboat with a perpetual Wind spell (which isn't book legal since a ship is not a "staff, wand, or jewelry") would still need a crew to handle the sails and man the tiller.

Alternately, I don't believe there's a specific requirement in the Golem spell that the golem be shaped like a human. If you accept that golems can come in other forms, and those other forms can be ships, than you would be able to create a ship-golem that can crew itself. You would still need a Wind spell for a self-moving sailboat-golem, but then the jewelry requirement for the magic item is a lot easier to satisfy - put a necklace or tiara on the ship's figurehead. Assuming that golems can use magic items, which honestly I do not know if that is true.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by mlangsdorf

A sailboat with a perpetual Wind spell (which isn't book legal since a ship is not a "stand, wand, or jewelry") would still need a crew to handle the sails and man the tiller.
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Listed Items are suggestions rather than legal restrictions. The GM can make the form of the Item anything he wants.

As for the boat/ship Golem that way lies Madness. :)

Seriously, the Golem Spell costings applied to things other than simple Attribute boosts are very very broken.