Editing Go-fast boat (section)

==Name==

Go-fast boats are also called cigarette boats or cigar boats—references to their hull shape, to the items that they are (archetypally) used to smuggle (see ''[[Illicit cigarette trade]]'' and ''[[Cuban_cigar#Effects_of_the_United_States_embargo_on_Cuban_tobacco_products|Cuban cigar]]''), or both.

The term "cigarette boat" is especially popular because it is a brand name for a line of go-fast boats that popularized and largely defined the class in the 1960s, made by Don Aronow's Cigarette Racing Team.  "Cigar boat" is often preferred because it avoids confusion with that brand.

Although modern go-fast boats postdate [[rum-running#The ships|the fleet that was used for rum-running during the Great Depression]], some of those boats were small and extremely fast, a theme that is shared with later smuggling (such as [[illegal drug trade|drug smuggling]]); thus, go-fast boats are sometimes informally (jocularly) called rum-runners.