IT'S A YACHT, NOT A SAILBOAT !

[newtothis]

We are British Corinthian amateur sailors .

We berth a boat in a marina and moor a yacht on a mooring.

Marinas! Corinthian?
If you're not on a rusty mooring chain, or better yet tied up to a disused fuel barge, you're a big jessie.

 

[mjcoon]

What about the "Royal Yacht" - that can't be an Americanism, surely? (Not a sail in sight.)

 

[BurnitBlue]

A sailboat as a noun describes it perfectly. A sailing boat is the continous form of the verb. That sailboat is sailing. That sailboat out there looks great with her blue spinnaker.

When I lived in USA, the americanism that made me laugh was the small boat warning during the weather forecast segment of the news "All small boaters must take cover" when the anchor came back on he invariably added. "That also applies to big boaters in small boats.

 

[jwilson]

A boater is a hat. I can live (reluctantly) with the americanism 'sailboat' but 'boater' and 'boating' to refer to sailing vessels is horrible. I don't mind and certainly use 'boat' frequently for my sailing yacht, as I'm sure do many others.

 

[Sandy]

Who cares what it is called as long as you and they enjoy being on the water.

 

[C08]

Yes yacht is the fully correct term but I feel that "yacht" has an elitist tinge to it and I always describe my little boat as a sailing boat.

 

[madabouttheboat]

Can I join in from the other side of the fence?

Two names I hate are 'cabin cruiser' and 'speedboat'

It would be a Motor Yacht if I wanted to big it up to a non-boater (never)
It's a Motorboat if I'm talking to a Yachtie
It's a sports cruiser (or make and model) if I'm taking to another MoBoer
It's a boat if I want to downplay it to a non-boater

It has also been referred to on many occasions by others as both of my pet hate names.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

A boater is a hat. I can live (reluctantly) with the americanism 'sailboat' but 'boater' and 'boating' to refer to sailing vessels is horrible. I don't mind and certainly use 'boat' frequently for my sailing yacht, as I'm sure do many others.

I've always associated "boating" with something you do above Teddington .

A quick search proved no definite answer but I rather liked this..........

The easiest way to tell the difference between a sea boat and a river boat is that the sea boat will either have a big pole sticking out of the deck or alternatively, if it doesn't have a pole it will have "Nelson" written on it somewhere!

 

[Daydream believer]

What’s wrong with parking the boat?

Old Pete’s version of parking is driving his old gaffer square on to the dock wall at high tide such that 25 feet of bow sprit pokes the end through the wool shop window, knocks a geezer off his bike , then as he swings it round to the dock wall he wipes the feet from half the people queueing for the chip shop. With luck he can swing it round & get tied up before the traffic warden can book him for having his bow sprit over the parking bay for 20 minutes without paying. However, if the tide goes out in the meantime the bowsprit gets stuck across the road & he has to feed the meter for the next 12 hours before it will float free & that is called parking.

 

[Stemar]

It's all a matter of context. Milady used to tutor French for GCSE and A level and she had a rather stuck-up Mum to deal with, who said "We went to St Tropez for the weekend. What did you do? "Oh, we sailed to Cowes on my husband's yacht"

That was the last time she tried any one-up(wo)manship on Milady, who had omitted to mention that the yacht in question was a slightly scruffy Snapdragon 24

 

[Mr Cassandra]

Luxury sailboat?
Luxury yacht ?

 

[capnsensible]

Could those that are navigating their vessels into harbours with an irrational concern about what the terminology is for their craft be called 'pompous pilots' ? ?

 

[RichardS]

Sailing boat or sail boat ....... does it matter?

Richard

 

[cmedsailor]

As a non-British and non-American, I usually say "sailing boat". Not sure if this is wrong.
But even in other languages (in Greek for instance) there are many different words for the same thing!

 

[RupertW]

Sailing boat or sail boat ....... does it matter?

Richard

Massively - sailing boat is the correct term, sailboat is for idts, fls and nmptis, and yacht is a bit too pretentious for me.

 

[Bobc]

If you can afford to employ a full-time stripper, you're a luckier man than me.

Wish I could afford a full time stripper

 

[Sybarite]

In France a "yacht" is a gin palace.

A proper one is a "voilier".

 

[johnalison]

Can I join in from the other side of the fence?

Two names I hate are 'cabin cruiser' and 'speedboat'

It would be a Motor Yacht if I wanted to big it up to a non-boater (never)
It's a Motorboat if I'm talking to a Yachtie
It's a sports cruiser (or make and model) if I'm taking to another MoBoer
It's a boat if I want to downplay it to a non-boater

It has also been referred to on many occasions by others as both of my pet hate names.

Cabin cruiser was the usual term for motor yachts on the Broads, where sailing boats were usually called sailing yachts. Motorboat doesn’t really cover the type well, and the usual image it brings to mind is an open boat such as the type used for fishing. Speedboat has been used for yonks to mean the sort of boat used in waterskiing and is still the most unambiguous term. Larger motorboats of the type that are planing or semi-planing are invariably called powerboats in my experience. Sports cruiser sounds like ad-speak.

 

[Bobc]

Luxury sailboat?
Luxury yacht ?

Raymond Throat-warbler?

 

[Bobc]

Someone is going to get accused of racism soon