Console Boats

[Zak]

If you go to the ocean, and go into the ocean and float down to the bottom, you will find a broken boat (not a block or anything just one of those things that worms come out of.) If you break it, you will get a broken boat. If you take this all the way back up to your tinker's workshop with 25 wood and 10 iron bars you can craft a boat to go onto the water. There are various types of boats that only have a 45% chance to spawn in your world but it depends on the broken boat you mine to determine what color you get. When you place it (after you get the pirate), you can put a sail on it.
I did a tiny little thing on paint so maybe it look something like that.

 

[Dreamtree]

I think this could work as a mount like the minecart. I think sailing around on a tiny boat would look cool!