"Luxury yacht"?

[Babylon]

At what point does a little sailing or motor boat cease to be just a boat and become a "luxury yacht"?

Is it an objective question of size or of features? Does it have to be made of wood or will plastic do? Is it something to do with having a professional crew? Does it have to be moored off Antibes or St Lucia? Does it have to have sails, or will motors on their own be sufficient?

Is it merely a function of the popular, media-fed imagination, or does the definition in fact reside in the mind of the impoverished/middle-class/rather-wealthy (delete as appropriate) owner?

How do you commonly refer to your's?

 

[CharlesSwallow]

I was thinking about this over the weekend and came to the conclusion that a boat is a boat but a yacht is a boat you might wear your best clothes to use. A "Luxury Yacht" however is one where you still wear your best, and probably "Designer" clothes to use but you pay someone else to work it for you.

Chas

 

[Twister_Ken]

According to the gutter press, any boat big enough to drink a G&T on is a "Luxury Yacht".

 

[prv]

According to the gutter press, any boat big enough to drink a G&T on is a "Luxury Yacht".

Agree. Nobody refers to their own boat as a "luxury yacht", even in the rare case where it would be an accurate description. No (or few) real people use the term about someone else's boat. But to the tabloids, the term is one word and used to describe practically anything that floats and has a bunk on board.

Pete

 

[Daedelus]

According to the gutter press, any boat big enough to drink a G&T on is a "Luxury Yacht".

Let's face it Ken, that nice shiny boat you've got that glided past me last Sunday would be referred to as a Luxury yacht anywhere.

Incidentally did you know that its name is slang for heroin addict?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Let's face it Ken, that nice shiny boat you've got that glided past me last Sunday would be referred to as a Luxury yacht anywhere.

Incidentally did you know that its name is slang for heroin addict?

I'm surprised at your familiarity with drug parlance!

And, at least I can spell Caprice.

 

[Norman_E]

Interesting poll. If I am telling someone about it I say that I have a boat, but if they ask what it is I then have to tell them that it is a yacht. Of course if I ever get into the tabloids, they will say that I have a luxury yacht!

 

[Norman_E]

Let's face it Ken, that nice shiny boat you've got that glided past me last Sunday would be referred to as a Luxury yacht anywhere.

Incidentally did you know that its name is slang for heroin addict?

I thought "snow" was C not H

 

[Twister_Ken]

I've been going to a chiropractor lately. Maybe I'm becoming a crack addict.

 

[Babylon]

Interesting poll. If I am telling someone about it I say that I have a boat, but if they ask what it is I then have to tell them that it is a yacht. Of course if I ever get into the tabloids, they will say that I have a luxury yacht!

Pretty much agree. I talk about going down to the boat etc, but when asked "what sort of boat?" I reply "small 30 year old sailing yacht".

For me the luxury bit is - having gone through the stress of getting down through heavy traffic on Friday evening and getting everything on board and sorted out - waking up on Saturday morning to the sound of water gently lapping against the hull . You don't get that on your proper luxury yacht!

 

[Woodlouse]

As said, a luxury yacht exists only when the press is trying to vilify someone.

A yacht, generally speaking, is a boat when it's being described to someone who is in no danger of ever seeing it.

All boats are boats. Unless you are a pedantic and American, in which case all boats are submarines.

 

[Otter]

I thought "snow" was C not H

"Snowbird" is the street slang for a Cocaine addict, though it is occasionally used for a heroin or LSD addict.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Mmmm, some good sources of drugs knowledge on this forum.

Consumers, suppliers, producers or enforcers d'ya think?

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In our mind, a snowbird is someone who migrates to warmer climes, part of the mid-term planning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbird_(people)

 

[Signed Out]

Almost any boat is luxury if it floats to me...

As in the name of a certain mag, isn't Yachting just sailing, even on smaller craft?

And like you said Ken, I am aware of Snowbirds being what Jello Biafra has referred to in the song of the same name- "Winnebago Warriors", and convoyed through town in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?".

Weren't you showing knowledge of this "trade" in the UKBA thread Kipper?

 

[wotayottie]

At what point does a little sailing or motor boat cease to be just a boat and become a "luxury yacht"?

Is it an objective question of size or of features? ?

Depends entirely on the perspective of the person judging. What is routine to Abramovich is luxury to you and me ( well to me anyway ) just as 3 daily meals is routine to you and a luxury to a lot of Africans

 

[tudorsailor]

Luxury yacht is similar to "architect designed house" is similar to "No. 1 bestseller book" is similar to "sales Consultant" all meaningless

TS

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Yep, spot on

Pretty much agree. I talk about going down to the boat etc, but when asked "what sort of boat?" I reply "small 30 year old sailing yacht".

For me the luxury bit is - having gone through the stress of getting down through heavy traffic on Friday evening and getting everything on board and sorted out - waking up on Saturday morning to the sound of water gently lapping against the hull . You don't get that on your proper luxury yacht!

+1

 

[AllanJ]

As someone else alluded; a luxury is anything I can't afford.

hmmm. That makes mine a luxury boat.

 

[richardbayle]

As someone else alluded; a luxury is anything I can't afford.

hmmm. That makes mine a luxury boat.

+1

 

[TQA]

Hmm I remember a conversation a couple of years ago in Fort Lauderdale on this topic and heard the definitive answer from a stewie.

I has to have a helipad if it is a mobo.

Oh yes and if asked what I call mine the answer is "home".