Is the ship a figure, or is it a prop?
If it is a figure, chances are that oars and sails are body parts - you can turn the visibility of body parts on and off in the Object->Properties palette. Invisible body parts will stay invisible in Vue - at least in Vue 4.5, 5 Infinite and 6 Infinite, invisible bodyparts are simply not imported.

But if it is only a figure in order to make MAT poses possible (poses won't apply to standalone props, there MUST be a figure in the scene), chances are that those "hide oars" and "hide sails" simply assign a transparent material to the oars and sails - the geometry is still there.

Now here's how you can get that ship into Vue without oars and sails, assuming it is a figure with a single body part and different materials for the oars and sails.

1. Check the material settings for the ship in the Material Room. Check each material, and write down what materials have been made transparent (which means no nodes connected to the Root node, Transparency value set to 1.000).
2. Switch back to the Pose room and start up the Grouping Tool.
3. Create a new group within the Grouping Tool. Call it "ShipNoSails".
4. Choose the "Add Material" button, and add one of the transparent materials.Repeat for all transparent materials.

Now your group contains the polygons you DON'T want to export. Click the "Invert" button, and you'll have only the polygons you DO want!.

5. Click the "Create Prop" button in the grouping tool.

6. Hide the ship figure (do not delete it - yet). You'll see the ship without oars or sails, but possibly the textures are all wrong. If that is the case, go to the Material room, select the ship, and click on the (+) button in the lower right corner of your screen, on the Material library panel.
   Poser asks you whether you want to make a material collection or to save a single material.
   You'll want a collection. Give it a name, and select what materials should be included in the material collection - you can omit all materials that were transparent, since your ship prop doesn't have those polygons anymore you won't need the materials!
   Now pick the ship prop from the dropdown at the top of the Material screen, and apply your newly made material collection to the ship prop. Voila - materials all fixed.

7. Now you can delete the ship figure - or just keep it hidden, it won't import into Vue when it's hidden anyway.

Done!

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