Magic scene.

But in all seriousness the few times I see that scene brought up its kinda just weird in general. Maybe he was faking it the whole time, or maybe he just was numb from the shock of what happened on the island. Its kinda like the one other thing we will never know about the end of the incident; what is Kyrie's motivation at the if the events are as shown. I'm just talking out of my ass here.

When you are scared/concerned with other things, some of your fears can momentarily disappear for a while. That, and obviously he did not want to look like a wuss in front of Beato.

you can also easily from later games dialogues assume that the entire "i'll fall i'll fall" is just his own personal situation joke and it's not like he's actually terrified of boats

You'll notice in Episode 1 that Battler can handle boats when they're going at lower speed. This is a tiny motorboat. I don't imagine it goes that fast.

It could also be that since EP1 and such were all written by Tohya after the real events took place, Battler's fear of boats was added in as references to his own drowning experience from when he escaped the island.

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It has been 1000 years, but I thought Ep1 and 2 were yasu.

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Yasu was on the boat too, wasn't she?

The boat scene did happen. The "Battler" on the boat wasn't actually battler, but someone who took his name, faked a car accident, then lived a happy life. Only deciding to meet Ange once out of pity (might not even have happened) OR
The Beato on that motorboat was a representation of the gold the "Battler" took when leaving the island, both hachijo's were actors, and the true survivor is unknown.