Searush
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This elite group are often disparaged on fora, but how exactly would YOU define a Yottie? And could I be one? 
Wot is a Yottie?
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Ludd
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This elite group are often disparaged on fora, but how exactly would YOU define a Yottie? And could I be one?
Somebody who's got the boat,got the designer gear,the Dubarry boots,NEVER goes sailing,and posts on here a lot!
Cymrogwyllt
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I feel it healthier to stay out of this one
sailorman
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Searush
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looking like a photofit
Nah, Glynn is a Seakayaker.
So it's expensive designer oilies & 100 squid boots is it?
sailorman
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SimbaDog
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If one has to ask, one probably isn't one
Downsman
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And could I be one? [/QUOTE]
You can be one if you like, but you'll have to get out of the 'oggin and get yer 'air cut.
[/QUOTE]You can be one if you like, but you'll have to get out of the 'oggin and get yer 'air cut.
Athene V30
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I was told you get East Coast Sailors and South Coast Yotties.
Flying Penguin
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Only when worn purely for cosmetic effect. Top end Musto offshore gear on a boat that never goes outside the Solent or out in more than F4.
The derogative use of "Yottie" is (imho) the coastal equivalent of a "Sloane Ranger", everyone else is "just" a sailor.
Little Rascal
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It's people wot goes yottin'!
Wansworth
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The term Yottie can only really be used buy non recreational boaters.Fisherman luv to get their mouth round"bloody yoties" makes them feel big .Any pro waterman can use the term mostly derogatorially.In these modern times recreationl boats are seperated from others as they are confined to marinas;but there are occassions when a "pro" will be in a confontational situation with a yottie and I have known them the "pros" to be quite nasty especially if the yottie is wearing full kit down to the yellow wellies.In this case the yottie climbed aboard his dinghy and rowed away mustering all the dignity he could muster!
Romeo
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Yaffayacht? Whatyachtyaffa?
Bosun Higgs
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This elite group are often disparaged on fora, but how exactly would YOU define a Yottie? And could I be one?
Elite? Disparaged? A yottie is simply someone who sails a sailing yacht. Not to be confused with mobo driver. Or wetbike chav.
nmeyrick
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Have to agree that Yottie to me carries connotations of posing in musto gear for style rather than functional reasons and generally not actually sailing. They probably dont even know how to sail but like to associate themselves with the Percieved glamour of "the scene" and can be spotted at locations like cowes week and the boat shows. Anyone who actually sails is, for me at least, a sailor or a boater.
I always find it amusing at boat shows that the people who look like they can't afford a boat are generally the boat owners who a) have no spare money now because they own a boat and b) feel no need to prove a point. Meanwhile the ones who make the effort to look like they can afford a boat usually have no idea about sailing - but for some reason nobody seems to have explained this to the young temp staff hired to man the stalls who therefore seem to concentrate their effort on the people who look like they could buy a boat but probably won't. Or am I way off the mark on this?
See also Yottie Tottie, a related phenomenon apparently driven by the false assumption that boat owners have a lot of money therefore make a good catch! Maybe Lakesailor could provide some suitable illustration?
I always find it amusing at boat shows that the people who look like they can't afford a boat are generally the boat owners who a) have no spare money now because they own a boat and b) feel no need to prove a point. Meanwhile the ones who make the effort to look like they can afford a boat usually have no idea about sailing - but for some reason nobody seems to have explained this to the young temp staff hired to man the stalls who therefore seem to concentrate their effort on the people who look like they could buy a boat but probably won't. Or am I way off the mark on this?
See also Yottie Tottie, a related phenomenon apparently driven by the false assumption that boat owners have a lot of money therefore make a good catch! Maybe Lakesailor could provide some suitable illustration?
Downsman
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That made me smile nmeyrick..I went to the Southampton Boat Show in my bike leathers once...Oh dear! never again..
Searush
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Hmm, interesting. Lots of slightly different views turning up.
My view tends to the Hooray Henry side, a Yottie may actually be a good sailor, but be disdainful of others & rather overvalue his own sense of worth.
I despair that, as a scruffy scouse pensioner, I could ever aspire to becoming a Yottie, altho the comment about "Professionals" like fishermen calling all amateurs "Yotties" strikes a chord. However, in my experience a competent professional will acknowledge competence when he sees it, even from a leisure sailor.
My view tends to the Hooray Henry side, a Yottie may actually be a good sailor, but be disdainful of others & rather overvalue his own sense of worth.
I despair that, as a scruffy scouse pensioner, I could ever aspire to becoming a Yottie, altho the comment about "Professionals" like fishermen calling all amateurs "Yotties" strikes a chord. However, in my experience a competent professional will acknowledge competence when he sees it, even from a leisure sailor.
Tom Price
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So . .
What's a raggie then?
What's a raggie then?
Searush
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Anyone who sails. Yotties are clearly "a cut above" err, or below; depending on whether it is their viewpoint or someone esle's.
Tom Price
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Anyone who sails. Yotties are clearly "a cut above" err, or below; depending on whether it is their viewpoint or someone esle's.
So yotty rhyming with snotty is not fortuitous then.
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