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Old 12-26-2022, 08:30 PM   #1
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Is it a boat or a yacht? Handgrenade question

I bought a boat two months ago and never once have I considered it a yacht. Went to the ski slopes today where I am a total guru and word was out that I might bought a winter escape pod. After showing pictures and explaining the boat everyone was chiding me about buying a yacht, not a boat.
I my mind a yacht is a big ass new boat on the cover of a money magazine with a guy dressed to the nines, hugging his trophy wife in a sunset. Not two old farts in a Hatteras 42 long Range Cruiser Grandpa/Grandma sleeps four persons slow boat. I grew up around the Great Lakes were everything is a boat.
I went home today and looked up the definition of a yacht and now I am not sure. My friends may not be entirely wrong but emotionally, it sure don't feel like my conjured up image of yacht.
I seem to be running head long into a number of nautical definition problems lately. What say you?
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Old 12-26-2022, 08:37 PM   #2
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I my mind a yacht is a big ass new boat on the cover of a money magazine with a guy dressed to the nines, hugging his trophy wife in a sunset

Nice try, but a little defensive.


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Old 12-26-2022, 08:47 PM   #3
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Per Wiki a yacht begins at 10 meters (33 feet) which is also the USCG line for "small craft"

So if you have a "forty" you have a yacht.

But due to the "current social conditions", most just call it a boat.

Well unless you really do have a yacht with a helo pad and a helo on deck and a captain and crew, yeah you have a yacht!
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A boat becomes a yacht when the owner is a member of a yacht club.

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Old 12-26-2022, 08:53 PM   #5
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In Australia "yacht" usually means what USA calls "sailboat". If "yacht" is used describing a powerboat, it`s often qualified by "motor", ie. a "motor yacht'.
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Old 12-26-2022, 08:56 PM   #6
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Per Wiki a yacht begins at 10 meters (33 feet) which is also the USCG line for "small craft"

So if you have a "forty" you have a yacht.

But due to the "current social conditions", most just call it a boat.

Well unless you really do have a yacht with a helo pad and a helo on deck and a captain and crew, yeah you have a yacht!
Gotta laugh, we are in the same boat pun intended.

My boat does not meet the definition of luxury. I can't take a 10 minute shower.
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Old 12-26-2022, 08:58 PM   #7
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A definition of a yacht I heard many years ago: "A yacht is a any boat larger/more expensive than the listener can afford." I think this has a lot of merit. So yacht is a relative term.
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Old 12-26-2022, 09:03 PM   #8
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I prefer to think of our boat as just that, a boat, especially when purchasing parts . . . . but many people would think of it as a yatchet . . . I mean yacht. Whatever, probably best defined with the old definition, "A hole in the water into which you endlessly pour money". In the almost 2 years we've owned our current "boat", I'm embarrassed to admit just how much money we've spent on upgrades/improvements . . . .
But we use the heck out of her, and enjoy her immensely!
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Old 12-26-2022, 09:10 PM   #9
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yacht ‘N’ definition
1- boat you can’t afford
2 - how you described your boat after 1:00 AM
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I'm LMAO. Everyone else here has a boat. I am not alone. Maybe yachts only exist in the minds of used yacht brokers.
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Old 12-26-2022, 11:08 PM   #11
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It is which ever term you prefer. I call mine a boat and I do belong to a yacht club. But it always felt pretentious to say yacht for a forty something boat.
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Old 12-27-2022, 12:03 AM   #12
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I agree. But I do like not being in the "small craft" club anymore.

Small craft advisories can now be ignored -
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OK, definition from Oxford Dictionary...
yacht
[jɒt]
NOUN
a medium-sized sailing boat equipped for cruising or racing.

So, BruceK's #5 post is probably the most correct. And yes, if referring to a large vessel they are usually referred to as Motor Yacht, or Super Yacht. So, you're either a yachtie, (sailor), or a boatie (motor boat pilot). Or a multi-millionare with a large toy. Just sayin'...
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Old 12-27-2022, 04:38 AM   #14
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It's a yacht if that hot girl asks about it.
It's a boat if the tax man asks.
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Hi.

I am approaching this matter officially.

I approach this matter according to the official definition. All our "trawler, boat, yatch, etc" are simply named vessels. When we move with a motor, the name changes to power drive vessel, this is the official terminology that can be found in the rules we all know

Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (COLREGs)

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We were waiting to go through a lock one day, behind a tug pushing a couple of barges. The lock operator radioed the tug captain and asked if he was ready to lock through.

He replied, “Yeah, and there’s a yacht behind me waiting to go through, too”. My friend who was standing nearby heard it, too, and said, “Well, that makes it official. You own a yacht!”
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A boat becomes a yacht when the owner is a member of a yacht club.

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Thats great!

In the Insurance world, anything over 26' to 30' Depending on the company.

From Wikipedia To be termed a yacht, as opposed to a boat, such a pleasure vessel is likely to be at least 33 feet (10 m) in length and may have been judged to have good aesthetic qualities.
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I've always defined a yacht as a boat bigger than mine.
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Confession: If I am talking to a Seller about listing his vessel, I usually call it a boat or a vessel. If talking to a Buyer about fulfilling a dream, I call her a yacht. For me, it is the first step in helping the Seller become disattached from his beloved possession, it de-personalizes it.

I think there is an underlying psychological pride in owning a yacht even if it's a boat. No harm in that! You've earned that right to call your dream whatever you want.
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Well I have had some good sleep now and I am a bit more clear headed about this. I thought this was going to deteriorate into a free for all about the definition of a yacht but the clear pattern is that there is a stigmatism and no one wants to wear the label of "Yacht" except the brokers. No one here sees themselves on the cover of a magazine on their boat and that brings me to the "Dah" moment.
I am an elite level alpine skier and trying to deny that is like the guy with the helicopter on his boat claiming he does not own a yacht. In that crowd, they all look at me as having alien powers so naturally they are going to put me on a yacht; DAH. It has nothing to do with definitions and everything to do with how they perceive me. Those with the most insistence are the groupies whom don't believe in themselves.
They are afraid that I have purchased a winter escape pod and for the most part, they are correct. I have skied 63 years. 63 years of not visiting warm sunny weather and nice beaches, enduring cold snowy weather. It's time to pass the torch. I have trained some elite level skiers. It's time to pass the torch, my physical ability is waning and my wife cannot stand snow. Time to ski emeritus with a few appearances each winter and enjoy a life long dream of cruising full time.
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