What do you guys consider a Yacht?

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billsmithers2@reddit

A yacht is just a pleasure craft with at least one cabin intended for overnight use.

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Raneynickelfire@reddit

That would mean my Catalina 22 is a yacht.

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Raneynickelfire@reddit

The boat that I am currently on is a yacht. Be it a rubber dinghy, my catalina 22, or a Swan 131. If I'm on it, it's a yacht dammit!

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ghettoskier@reddit

My 20ft dinghy is a yacht when I want to jokingly be pretentious. Other people's boats are yachts when I want to joke about them being pretentious.

Everything else is just sparkling boats.

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Difficult_Limit2718@reddit

It's only a yacht if it comes from the yachtanie region of France

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crazyswedishguy@reddit

* Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC)

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Intelligent-Salt-362@reddit

The term “Sparkling boats” is ::chef’s kiss:: and I will be stealing it. Does that make me a pirate?

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Intelligent-Salt-362@reddit

I had a lazy eye as a kid and actually had to wear an eye patch after having an ocular alignment, but that is no longer an issue. So in the immortal words of Nick Papageorgio “I do not require them.”

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hertzsae@reddit

Google basically says any vessel from around 33 to 100 feet in length that isn't used for commercial purposes and generally has a cabin for sleeping or other luxury amenities.

That's a pretty good definition and I feel like anyone who is proud of their more stringent requirements is just trying to gatekeep.

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crazyswedishguy@reddit

Why the 100 foot limit? Are super-yachts and mega-yachts not yachts?

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Sir-Realz@reddit (OP)

If I wanted a strait forward good explanation I wouldn't have come to reddit. Lol

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bryangcrane@reddit

A generally accepted definition that my fellow Southern California boaters use, is that a yacht is a pleasure vessel with a hired captain.

Thoughts?

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I've heard a lot of tongue-in-cheek references and have made a few myself. Worn blue blazers on all sorts of janky vessels. But in more objective terms, if it's got some kind of professional on-board staff, that's a yacht.

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Infinite-Land-232@reddit

I used to store my Naples Sabot next to another one named "YOT". I don't think mine was a yacht but his was.

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bobber18@reddit

A yacht is a boat that is used exclusively for pleasure. Fishing hosts, world boat, and transports don’t count. And size doesn’t matter.

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Dstegs_@reddit

So my sunfish is a yacht?

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StatisticalMan@reddit

Yachts have overnight accomodations. So no a canoe or sunfish wouldn't count.

However there are pocket cruiser yachts down to 22 feet.

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Much-Hamster-2182@reddit

May 22er comed with 4 beds, a pantry with flowing water, sink and 4 flames cooker, two tables (if needed), lots of storing space and even a toilet. So don‘t tell me my floating realm is not a yacht. snorting indingnantly

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bobber18@reddit

Yes, both are yachts. Congratulations

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Dstegs_@reddit

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digger250@reddit

I sail at a yacht club that was established 100 years ago and never raced boats bigger than 18'

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vulkoriscoming@reddit

I think the definition requires overnight accomodations. I do like the other guy's assertion that it also requires a dedicated ice maker you can use away from the dock.

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squishyPup@reddit

I call my Cape Dory 25 a yacht, a sailin' boht, a day sailor, a pocket crusier, and a coastal cruiser, sometimes all in the same day.

I also teach on 22 foot Ensigns and to lighten the mood for nervous new sailors, after casting off, I always say ha HA! Lovely day for yachting!

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DogtariousVanDog@reddit

The common definition that I know is that a yacht is any pleasure craft with a keel that provides righting moment.

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12221203@reddit

America’s Cup boats are yachts yet some don’t have sleeping provisions, dinghies, or an ice maker. Some even carry passengers now and are still considered yachts.

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Truth_Said_In_Jest@reddit

I think that's more of a legacy classification.

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CapnJuicebox@reddit

I yacht is a vessel that carries it's own dinghy on deck, and is over 33ft in length

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vulkoriscoming@reddit

This is a reasonable definition

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OptiMom1534@reddit

a yacht is any boat used for pleasure. the end.

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mikemerriman@reddit

any boat bigger than mine is a yacht

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vulkoriscoming@reddit

This is the real answer until you get 75 foot plus with staff. Then they are all yachts.

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whyrumalwaysgone@reddit

From a systems guy: if it has an icemaker, it qualifies as a yacht.

There are a lot of different ways to distinguish, this is the most accurate one. Will die on this hill.

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crazyswedishguy@reddit

I have a portable (countertop) ice-maker that I bring on my sailboat. Does that make it a yacht?

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whyrumalwaysgone@reddit

If you have the available power to run it away from the dock free of worry, absolutely yes.

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Sir-Realz@reddit (OP)

Solid I like this no holes in this logic

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sailingtroy@reddit

There are old British Pathé videos where they refer to the boats in a dinghy regatta as "yachts". I've heard people draw all kinds of lines over the years. "Must have a toilet," "must have a galley," "must have a berth," "must have a tender..." some people draw the line at different lengths: 25', 27', 30', 40', 50'....

I will tell you that at my venerable, old YACHT club, there are very few 45'+ boats and fewer of them "very nice."

I think it's all classist bullshit and not worth worrying about. It's just another way to divide people, in this case sailors, and we can use all the solidarity we can muster these days. "United we stand, divided we fall."

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Difficult_Limit2718@reddit

But the rich always want to divide themselves from the poors... That's the point

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Almost_human-ish@reddit

The guy that taught me to sail used to say a yacht it had to have a mast and sails.

Everything else was a either a working boat, a speedboat, or a 'floating gin palace crewed by people who's idea of navigation was trying to stay on the blue parts of a road map'.

He was a funny old bugger, but by god he was a hell of a sailor.

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squashed_fly_biscuit@reddit

In the UK a yacht is commonly a sailing vessel with a cabin for sleeping that isn't a sailing barge

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1have2much3time@reddit

There isn’t a specific size starting point for a ‘yacht’ like there is for a mega/super-yacht classification.

It just needs to be a pleasure vessel with a dedicated space to sleep and store/prepare food.

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1959Mason@reddit

This depends where you are in the world. Different regions have different takes on this. Sounds like you consider fancyness and length in your criteria.

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KaleidoscopeWeird310@reddit

A yacht has its own boat(s).