Have I got a yacht or a boat?

[Slow_boat]

When does a boat become a yacht?

Does it have to be a certain size?

Does it have to have sails?

In short, what makes a boat a yacht?

 

[Evadne]

It's all in the mind, although confusion reigns because "yacht" is one of those nouns that declines in the English language:

I have a beautiful yacht
You have a nice boat
He/She has an old tub

and in the plural:
We have a bleedin' liability


Hope this helps

 

[michael_99]

When you wants to impress some. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Aardee]

I have a boat, unless I'm trying to chat you up. Then I have a yacht.

 

[tcm]

only a cad calls his boat a "yacht".

 

[fireball]

[ QUOTE ]
Noun 1. yacht - an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing

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So I guess it depends on the term expensive and vessel

[ QUOTE ]
Noun 1. vessel - a tube in which a body fluid circulates
Noun 2. vessel - a craft designed for water transportation
Noun 3. vessel - an object used as a container (especially for liquids)

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[ QUOTE ]
Adj 1. expensive - high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"

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That clears that up then ....

 

[savageseadog]

If it's less than 30ft, a craft. less than 50ft a boat more than 50ft, now you're talking.

 

[beancounter]

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When does a boat become a yacht?

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Errm - around about the time the owner starts sailing in blazer, cravat, and peaked cap with gold braid

 

[oldharry]

Yes.

Good thing you dont have to pay the bills twice though, isnt it!

 

[Slow_boat]

It's 20 foot. So that makes me a crafty owner. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[guernseyman]

At yachtmaster evening class we were told that a yacht is a pleasure boat over 16 foot long.

 

[fireball]

So as long as it is over 16' and you have "pleasure" in it .. it is a yacht ... hmmm

 

[TheBoatman]

I would have thought that sails would have been part of the description for a yacht

BUT

When does a Mobo become a super-yacht?
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[pelicanpete]

On the other side of the Atlantic, where this Limey is right now, a yacht is anything without sails (!). A boat with sails is, hold tight - a 'sail-boat.'

Sail boaters call motor boats "stink-pots". Motor boaters call sail-boats "blow-boats". Neither calls the other by nice names. But...are sail boaters "stink-potters" when they are motoring? (which they do most of the time). So I wondered whether they are "stink-pot-blow-boaters?"

 

[Norman_E]

[ QUOTE ]
If it's less than 30ft, a craft. less than 50ft a boat more than 50ft, now you're talking.

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The sizes seem to go up over time. Years ago I mentioned a small yacht I had seen (something like a Vancouver 28), and was told "It has to be over 30 feet to called a yacht" Another 50 years and they will have to be 80 feet plus to qualify!
I also remember being given a definition along the lines of "If it is open it is a dinghy, if it has sails and a fully enclosed cabin it is a yacht"

 

[Twister_Ken]

My way of looking at it - you've only got a yot if you're a member of a yotclub, or the royalyottinassoc.

 

[ValleyForge]

When I was courting my future wife ooh, a long time ago, I took her to see my 'yacht'. it was a twinkle twelve dinghy ...

 

[michael_w]

Dunno.

A boat is something you can haul onboard a ship. The exception being submarines. Diesel-electrics are "boats" and the nukes are "ships".

 

[Twister_Ken]

Nice phrase

I liked the expression I heard recently on a radio documentary, of a passenger on a submarine.

"Oxygen thief"

 

[Goldie]

Boat: Vessel in which you go sailing.

Yacht: Vessel on which one poses in a marina.