How big is Charon's boat? Like, how many shades can fit in one go?

I mentally modeled Charon’s boat after a much more modern boat, the Venetian gondola. Mostly I did this because there aren’t many surviving fishing boats or the like from three thousand-odd years ago. But I imagined the boat with a much lower front prow, and slightly wider than the modern gondola.

Shades in Chthonia have very little mass or form, as they are essentially ghosts, so literally hundreds could fit on a boat, if needed. The most material thing about them is their coins.

And because you least expect it, here’s a snippet from an upcoming chapter of The Good Counselor that I haven’t shared yet where shades are getting on the boat…