Difficulty placing boat while standing in water

When placing a boat into water you sometimes cannot place a boat.

To replicate go into 1 block deep water and try to place a boat at various angles and distances from your player. Observe that boats sometimes don't place. This affects both creative and survival mode.

Video of the bug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBhjrJbuEXw&feature=youtu.be