"British English" speakers: What do you call a boat propelled by sails?

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[[159032]]

Tricky thing English, no logic or consistency to it.
A boat with sails would be a sailboat, when using them it would be a sailing boat and when under engine a motoring boat.

Correct.

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[gordmac]

Strange that so many use boat when the Oxford Companion to Ships andThe Sea says " the generic name for small open craft, without any decking and usually propelled by oars" and our forum hosts "Yachting and Boating". Once again it is demonstrated that the purpose of language is communication and we use the term which best communicates our idea at the time.

Problem with such communication is when people understand different things from a communication. I remember in my youth a friend asking me round for tea, I expected tea not dinner! Still I coped with the second dinner.

 

[Babylon]

 

[[159032]]

Solved the problem

 

[rogerthebodger]

We used to have a second boat parts shop in Cape Town called Yot Grot.

A friend named my boat MyYot