Well people were saying that this was a skyboat because if you break the barrel its in the air because its smart welded
Yes that is sky boating in my opinion, it's usually up to the admin in these situations. But if someone made a ban request against you for it and showed me this, I would ban.
Read over the following thread about sky boats and how to avoid making them. http://devinity.org/threads/skyboats-putting-confusion-to-rest-once-for-all-w-illustrations.1027/