Definition of a yacht ?

[Seven Spades]

There is nothing pretentious about calling a yacht a yacht as that is what it is. If the other person has a problem it is their problem not mine.

This is akin to political correctness and I will have none of it, call a spade a spade I say.

 

[jonic]

Hi JR, in your brokerage experience, first purchase or not, how would this fine craft be classified .. yacht, MOBO, boat ....

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Looks like a deck shoe loon

 

[tcm]

To refer to one's own boat as a yacht is the mark of a cad, sir.

 

[Slow_boat]

I refer to mine as a boat, to others as a yacht but only if they have sails.
Otherwise they're a motor boat, though maybe those older, wooden and more pleasing to the eye could be a motor yacht.

 

[Quandary]

I refer to mine as a boat, to others as a yacht but only if they have sails.
Otherwise they're a motor boat, though maybe those older, wooden and more pleasing to the eye could be a motor yacht.

I was not aware until you posted, but I do exactly the same.
I think subconsciously I must be scared of being regarded as pretentious if I refer to 'our yacht'.

 

[TamarMike]

I've always thought that sails should be a fundamental requirement. To call a MoBo "a yacht" seems to be the ultimate affectation...

Perhaps mast(s) rather than sails should be the requirement? One wouldn't want to exclude (ex) HMY Britannia would one?

 

[tcm]

That dreadful cad Sir John Nott, one-time "here-today gone-tomorrow" (Robin Day) Defence Secretary completed his boring memoirs (he says) on his "yacht in the South of France", actually a Sealine 36 flybridge. A friend remarked that he also has an estate in Devon - apparently it's a Volvo....

 

[sighmoon]

My 6 year old has decided for himself that a yacht needs to have more than one storey; otherwise it's a boat.

 

[DogWatch]

My 6 year old has decided for himself that a yacht needs to have more than one storey; otherwise it's a boat.

That's quite a brilliant outlook your protégé has. I like that.

 

[DogWatch]

To refer to one's own boat as a yacht is the mark of a cad, sir.

What chance does that give us... knowing your cynical mind, if I say boat you will be thinking "ah, he's saying that to appear normal, but really he's thinking yacht, gadnammit the man's a cad"

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Have confidence men and woman who own yachts! You cant be regarded as pretentious because you already own a yacht. The act of referring to your yacht as a boat is insidious as you are likely to be thought of as patronising.

This patronisation will make you wallow in guilt; for it is the guilt that those who demand political correctness want you to feel. For they can not stand the fact that you can be free: to sail the oceans of opportunity, master of your own destiny, answerable only to God and yourself; they are affronted at the exposure of their lies that they have told themselves, weighed down by the chains of class angst, consumed with wanton desire, unable to achieve that which their arrogance denies them. Damn them all, I shall sail my yacht.

 

[DogWatch]

Have confidence men and woman who own yachts! You cant be regarded as pretentious because you already own a yacht. The act of referring to your yacht as a boat is insidious as you are likely to be thought of as patronising.

This patronisation will make you wallow in guilt; for it is the guilt that those who demand political correctness want you to feel. For they can not stand the fact that you can be free: to sail the oceans of opportunity, master of your own destiny, answerable only to God and yourself; they are affronted at the exposure of their lies that they have told themselves, weighed down by the chains of class angst, consumed with wanton desire, unable to achieve that which their arrogance denies them. Damn them all, I shall sail my yacht.

 

[Coaster]

Have confidence men and woman who own yachts! You cant be regarded as pretentious because you already own a yacht. The act of referring to your yacht as a boat is insidious as you are likely to be thought of as patronising.

This patronisation will make you wallow in guilt; for it is the guilt that those who demand political correctness want you to feel. For they can not stand the fact that you can be free: to sail the oceans of opportunity, master of your own destiny, answerable only to God and yourself; they are affronted at the exposure of their lies that they have told themselves, weighed down by the chains of class angst, consumed with wanton desire, unable to achieve that which their arrogance denies them. Damn them all, I shall sail my yacht.

Now, what was I saying about yacht owners being pretentious? Surely not...

 

[Slow_boat]

My 6 year old has decided for himself that a yacht needs to have more than one storey; otherwise it's a boat.

I've been on a few of them.

Ore carriers, mainly.

 

[Babylon]

I was not aware until you posted, but I do exactly the same.
I think subconsciously I must be scared of being regarded as pretentious if I refer to 'our yacht'.

I'm neither scared nor pretentious. Its a yacht. My yacht, your yacht, his yacht, her yacht, a new yacht, and old yacht, a big yacht, a small yacht.

Looking up to no-one, looking down on no-one.

 

[Seven Spades]

To refer to one's own boat as a yacht is the mark of a cad, sir.

Hang on a minute Terry Thomas was one of my favourite actors. "Had a date last night, very athletic"