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

[Chiara’s slave]

Whereas down south, this is a canoe

 

[Praxinoscope]

I usually refer to my Sadler 25 as the/a boat, to call it a yacht seems a bit of an over amplification.

 

[Poignard]

Could be,

I once had a 1935 Derby Bentley that had that feature. You pressed a pedal and thick oil was pumped into the suspension linkages.

 

[The Q]

Central greaser?
It would be appropriate for this Alvis.

 

[PabloPicasso]

When talking about my boat I tend to feel yacht sounds uppity/gives a wrong impression of an old sailing boat so I use the term "old sailing boat". Am alone in feeling that the term yacht gives the wrong impression of a small sailing boat to the general public?

The current appropriate term, I believe, is " they/them". Oops, sorry, wrong argument.
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[Boathook]

The current appropriate term, I believe, is " they/them". Oops, sorry, wrong argument.
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Possibly correct argument but wrong location !!

 

[sailorman]

Is it a peculiarly British thing, this fear of being thought pretentious?

I mean, does it really matter what people think about trivial things when there are far more important things that ought to be being thought about; and talked about?i hd a yachtshe was a brilliant sailing boat

 

[Stemar]

For me it depends on circumstances. Far too often, right now, as I deal with the consequences of the previous owner's deferred maintenance, it's That Bloody Thing, or words to that effect.

Some years ago Madame tutored French. One of her snottier clients said to here one day, "We went to St Tropez for the weekend, what do you do?" "Oh, we sailed to Cowes on my husband's yacht" "Oh..."

Madame felt it unnecessary to mention that the yacht in question was slightly tatty Snapdragon 24