Is your boat a SV or SY?

I thought it rather pretentious the way some of the older Falmouth to St Mawes ferries styled themselves RMMV (Royal Mail motor vessel) even though the post had even then been delivered by post for many years.
 
Just to confuse things-what about SC-Sailing catamaran or MC- Motor Catamaran!
 
The acid test: what do you call yourself when you call the coastguard or harbour control over VHF. I am comfortable with "Yacht Danny Jo".

I somehow can't swallow "Ess Vee Danny Jo" or even "Ess Why Danny Jo".
 
AFAIK the idea is to communicate as succinctly as possible what type of vessel is calling someone. eg. Yacht So-and-so indicates a leisure sailing vessel.

For some reason prefacing my VHF transmissions with 'This is sailing catamaran ...." just doesn't sound right and just saying catamaran seems a bit pointless.

I would be interested to get a CG/Harbour master view on this.
 
Tradewinds said:
I used to think that only American yachties used to use SV - Sailing Vessel - (eg SV Carpe Diem) & we Brits would use SY - Sailing Yacht - (eg SY Dreamer).

A few posters of UK origin are now signing off as SV xxxxx on this site & on some blogs I've read.

Am I now behind the times?

And should I also be saying gotten instead of got? :eek:

Yours,
Nigel
SY Rose of Wight
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My understanding is that Sailing Vessel is the official (used by Coast Guards) definition for a vessel powered by sails whilst Sailing Yacht is the "popular/colloquial" definition.
 
38Super said:
AFAIK the idea is to communicate as succinctly as possible what type of vessel is calling someone. eg. Yacht So-and-so indicates a leisure sailing vessel.

For some reason prefacing my VHF transmissions with 'This is sailing catamaran ...." just doesn't sound right and just saying catamaran seems a bit pointless.

I would be interested to get a CG/Harbour master view on this.
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Strictly speaking, I think "yacht" only indicates a leisure vessel, and it could be "sailing" or "motor". However, for practical purposes, unless you are the Queen or Roman Abramovich, "yacht" is understood to mean a "sailing yacht". Certainly I use "Yacht Tickety Boo" on the VHF. How do the stinkies normally announce themselves?
 
snowleopard said:
No, it was RMS Titanic (Royal Mail Ship)
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*RMS= Royal Mail Steamer* common misconception replacing steamer for ship.

Anyone else think it sad that none of the 3 sister Olympic class survived? The first, Olympic was sold for scrap in '35, the Titanic everyone knows about, and the Brittanic sunk in the Agean in '16 in the Geat War(ww1)?
 
chewba17 said:
*RMS= Royal Mail Steamer* common misconception replacing steamer for ship.

Anyone else think it sad that none of the 3 sister Olympic class survived? The first, Olympic was sold for scrap in '35, the Titanic everyone knows about, and the Brittanic sunk in the Agean in '16 in the Geat War(ww1)?
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I didnt know that! RMS was still in use until recently, until the withdrawal of RMS St Helena, but she was and still is very much a motor ship. Great thread revival BTW
 
I hesitate to add to a zombie thread, but I saw something recently that, at some point, there was a big shakeout amongst liner companies, and Cunard (?) nearly went under along with several others, but was saved by the government awarding the contract to carry mail, hence the RMS designation.
 
None of the above.. My boat is a Keelboat.

No not the American version of a Keelboat, which is everything with a keel to keep it upright.

But the Norfolk Definition of a keelboat.
A boat with a keel to keep it upright that does NOT have a cabin.

If it's got a cabin then it's a sailing cruiser or Yacht. ( or Wherry yacht)
 
We only have a sailboat, or a sailing vessel if you must. The Y word is reserved for pretentious people to embarrass themselves with their inability to prounounce it. Few anglophones are able to produce the required "ch" sound in the word and rather hork up something sounding like "jaahhhhht". ?
 
Yngmar said:
We only have a sailboat, or a sailing vessel if you must. The Y word is reserved for pretentious people to embarrass themselves with their inability to prounounce it. Few anglophones are able to produce the required "ch" sound in the word and rather hork up something sounding like "jaahhhhht". ?
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Never mind pronouncing it, referring to your plastic fantastic as a yacht is hideously pretentious anyway. In any case, ours isn‘t a yacht by any measure, even my dad refers to her as a sailing machine, Neither are 99.9% of other boats.
 
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