Indeed. To add to this even in offline mode you can be perfectly safe with a plugin such as xauth/royalauth.
Check to see if a chest is on your boat, usually causes all the clients on my server to crash when a boat has a chest in it.
Like a few other posters i am also having problems while trying to move a boat with chests in it. While the boat actually moves all the clients...
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