AnTitanic

AnTitantic is a 1.7.10, 1.8.9 Legacy Fabric mod.

The mod changes Boats in 1.7.10 and 1.8.9 to how modern boats are and other benefits.

The mod allows for damage to enemies if the boat is at a fast enough speed (configurable, on by default), can be used to cancel fall damage, the boats can survive a 15 block descent compared to 3 blocks, and the boat now when broken drops the boat item rather than sticks and planks.

Modinth Description and 1.0.1 version changelog:

AntiTitanic is a mod that makes boats not complete garbage on 1.8.9. Boats will no longer break when coming into contact with subatomic particles.

1.0.1 changelog:

Boats now will deal damage to enemies if they go fast enough (toggleable via config, enabled by default)

Boats now cancel fall damage, as they do in modern Minecraft

Boats can now survive a 15 block fall, as opposed to a 3 block max fall in vanilla 1.8/1.7

It is now impossible to get a boat to drop 3 Planks and 2 Sticks, they now only drop the Boat item.