Do you have a "yacht "or a "sailing boat"?

[Minerva]

I generally tend towards “boat” - if I started banding about that I owned “a yacht”, my boss might think that he pays me too much!

 

[thinwater]

Just please don't start calling it a sailboat. That really annoys me.

That's funny. It's a sailboat, isn't it?

In fact, most others we just refer to as AWBs.

 

[Refueler]

That's funny. It's a sailboat, isn't it?

In fact, most others we just refer to as AWBs.

I don't see the problem with Sailboat .... better than long-winded Sailing Boat.

Considering that we often use terms such as MoBo ... Motorboat ... Stinky .... etc.

The question I have about what to call one of my boats :

https://imgur.com/iY71v0u

Its a 1970 - 80's aluminium Soviet Progress 4 motor boat. Designed for 15 - 30HP outboard.

I cannot in all fairness call it a Speedboat - it hits about 14kts with the Mariner 20 2str on the back ... and I think Motor Boat implies larger ... So it just gets called Progress !

 

[Daydream believer]

Its a 1970 - 80's aluminium Soviet Progress 4 motor boat. Designed for 15 - 30HP outboard.

I cannot in all fairness call it a Speedboat - it hits about 14kts with the Mariner 20 2str on the back ... and I think Motor Boat implies larger ... So it just gets called Progress !

Skip?

 

[Stingo]

Very relatable.
In the deepest dark of Winter, and the invoices come in, and my other hakf is in one of her 'moods', it's your boat.
However, when it's Summer, and she has topped up her tan whilst out sailing, it's our yacht.

She sounds more expensive and probably requires more maintenance than a yacht

 

[Chiara’s slave]

She sounds more expensive and probably requires more maintenance than a yacht

I think that’ll be the case with most SWMBOs. You can get a whole rig, mast, running and standing rigging and sails for most of our boats for the price of a new hip. My OH is well on her way to being the bionic woman.

 

[Koeketiene]

She sounds more expensive and probably requires more maintenance than a yacht

She's remarkably low maintenance. She wouldn't have lasted 33 years (and counting) otherwise.
And right now, she makes significantly more than I do so she's a more attractive alternative than having to start a go-fund-me appeal.

There are, of course, other benefits too.

 

[gordmac]

It grates with me too.

But 'motorboat' doesn't.

Why is that?

It doesn't make sense..

Logic really. A sailboat can be sailing, motoring or indeed both at the same time. When it is motoring it is a motoring boat not a sailing boat.

 

[Poignard]

As a matter of interest, to me anyway, do Dutch sailors call their pleasure vessels : jachts or boots

 

[Daydream believer]

Do not coastguards refer to yachts as "sailing vessels"?
Do not a lot of preliminary forms for immigration, insurance etc. refer to them as "vessels"before asking for clarification of type of vessel? The form then goes on to list "sail power" etc but never ( as far as I can recall) a "boat"
I always thought that "boats" were for taking crumpet for an afternoons jolly up a canal, or river, as a precursor to further activities later in the day. Unless you got your crumpet in a punt but that is another class of vessel

 

[Koeketiene]

As a matter of interest, to me anyway, do Dutch sailors call their pleasure vessels : jachts or boots

' Zeiljacht' or 'motorjacht'.

'Zeilboot' is usually used to refer to sailing dinghies (Optimist etc...).

 

[Poignard]

Thank you.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

For me both terms are and were interchangeable with no specific reason to use or choose either except when using the VHF to request a berth or contact someone it would always be " this is yacht ........etc"

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Do not coastguards refer to yachts as "sailing vessels"?
Do not a lot of preliminary forms for immigration, insurance etc. refer to them as "vessels"before asking for clarification of type of vessel? The form then goes on to list "sail power" etc but never ( as far as I can recall) a "boat"
I always thought that "boats" were for taking crumpet for an afternoons jolly up a canal, or river, as a precursor to further activities later in the day. Unless you got your crumpet in a punt but that is another class of vessel

That therefore makes ours a boat.

 

[Rappey]

I always thought that "boats" were for taking crumpet for an afternoons jolly up a canal,

Isnt that a punt or rowing boat ? How about U-boat or ferry boat, air boat or flying boat ?

 

[Daydream believer]

Isnt that a punt or rowing boat ? How about U-boat or ferry boat, air boat or flying boat ?

I did mention the use of punts for crumpet but you will have to ask captainsensible about crumpet in u-boats. Are ladies allowed to go down under?

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I did mention the use of punts for crumpet but you will have to ask captainsensible about crumpet in u-boats. Are ladies allowed to go down under?

I have heard it said that lady visitors are popular, owing to the access being via a small hatch and a ladder.

 

[Daydream believer]

I have heard it said that lady visitors are popular, owing to the access being via a small hatch and a ladder.

I assume that is when they turn the air vents on

 

[The Q]

In Norfolk terminology.

Yacht, plastic sea going sailing boat with cabin.
Broads River cruiser, cabin sailing boat built for the Norfolk broads.
Keelboat, sailing boat without cabin. But with a lump of lead to keep it upright.
Dinghy. Sailing boat that requires work to keep upright.
Rowing boat, often propelled by an outboard motor.
Canoe, something that wanders around the rivers, often without broads tax.
Canoe ( hire) something that wanders the rivers getting in the way, as they have no clue about regulations.
SUP, plank of foam propelled by people who think it's fashionable to stand up, often falling over, often without broads tax, often have no clue broads regulations exist.
Day boat, small less than 20ft motor boat. Often driven too fast, by people who want to know where the next pub is.
Motorboat (hire) , often driven by many who are on the broads for a week long pub crawl.
Brundall navy, large multistory motorboats, unsuitable for the broads, who maybe once a year might go for a trip across the north sea. When they've had the fuel bill don't do it again..

Punt.

 

[Praxinoscope]

If the sight of me motoring down to my yacht through the leafy lanes of Surrey and Hampshire in my Alvis ("Best damn car Britain ever made!" Who said that?) offends the socialist riff-raff, what care I?

Didn't some Alvis models have a central grease reservoir that was not unlike a stern tube packing greaser on a boat?