Left click the boat.
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Aim your cursor in the center of the screen at the boat and right click.
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.
You have to hit the boat a few times to 'destroy' it, making it drop as a collectible item - same for Minecarts.