Sojourning
Recycles dryer sheets
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- Feb 5, 2015
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Well we can agree to disagree Midpack. If you're going to say there is an arbitrary length a boat must be to be a yacht rather than a boat, you'll have to say that a 39 foot boat isn't a yacht. Does that sound reasonable to you? What is clearly defined is that it is a boat used for leisure and privately owned rather than a commercial vessel of any kind.
Or we could just as easily go to windward and say that 'jot' the original Dutch word used to describe a boat used to chase pirates in the Low Countries and origin of the word yacht, means it can only be applied to a boat with sails. I"d call that a better cut off than any arbitrary length. But then I'm adverse to anything to do with stinkpots.
One thing is for sure, referring to your boat as a yacht is a faux pas whatever it's length.
What's that in your avatar picture Midpack? A Sunfish? I learned to sail on a Butterfly, then moved on to Lasers for racing. Eventually I moved on to keel boats and club racing them on Lake Ontario (from Toronto). That led to cruising vacations in places like the Virgin Islands and Grenadines. I've sailed as well in the North Sea, Norwegian Fjords, French Polynesians and Mediterranean (I started my retirement crewing in the Med). And yes, I learned the best boat is someone else's boat.
Or we could just as easily go to windward and say that 'jot' the original Dutch word used to describe a boat used to chase pirates in the Low Countries and origin of the word yacht, means it can only be applied to a boat with sails. I"d call that a better cut off than any arbitrary length. But then I'm adverse to anything to do with stinkpots.
One thing is for sure, referring to your boat as a yacht is a faux pas whatever it's length.
What's that in your avatar picture Midpack? A Sunfish? I learned to sail on a Butterfly, then moved on to Lasers for racing. Eventually I moved on to keel boats and club racing them on Lake Ontario (from Toronto). That led to cruising vacations in places like the Virgin Islands and Grenadines. I've sailed as well in the North Sea, Norwegian Fjords, French Polynesians and Mediterranean (I started my retirement crewing in the Med). And yes, I learned the best boat is someone else's boat.