### Clue: Boat with half the crew in the stern (5)
### Answer: CRAFT 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Boat
  CR(half the letters of "crew") **plus**(in the – I thought "at the" would have been more apropos to avoid confusion with a container indication) AFT(sea-going parlance for stern,the back of the boat).  The salutary nautical reference with Rufus.  A nice surface.