All you need to do is right click the boat.
Once you place a boat in a body of water, simply right click to get in. Use left Shift to exit the boat.
Left click the boat.
you cant
Aim your cursor in the center of the screen at the boat and right click.
First, hold the boat and right click it over water.
A boat.
When destroyed, a boat results in 3 wood and 2 sticks so no, you unfortunately cannot recover a placed boat.
You can't make a real moving big boat in mine craft without a mod but you can make a row boat.
There arnt boats yet
You have to hit the boat a few times to 'destroy' it, making it drop as a collectible item - same for Minecarts.
Make a 2x2 square with wood planks in the crafting menu
no