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_{This is part 12 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.}

This is a variation on a Battleships puzzle, where the custom fleet of ships to be placed includes some that are irregularly-shaped. In the spirit of Japanese grid-deduction puzzle naming conventions, I call this variant ‘Logic Boat’. Once solved, a 6-letter word can be extracted from the puzzle – what is this word?

Battleships rules (adapted from Grandmaster Puzzles):

Locate the indicated fleet in the grid. Each segment of a ship occupies a single cell. Ships can be rotated. Different ships cannot be placed in adjacent cells that share an edge or corner. Some ship segments, or sea cells without any ship segments, are given in the grid. The numbers on the edges of the grid reveal the number of ship segments in that row or column.

^{Solve on Penpa+}

Note: This puzzle can be solved entirely through logical deduction, without the need for guesswork. Please do not post answers consisting of only a screenshot of the solution without any logical explanation – to earn the checkmark, (as well as identifying the final 6-letter solution word) your answer should explain the logical steps required to reach the solution, so that somebody reading it can follow along and understand.

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