These days I think that the definition is kind of muddy. The
definition I have heard most often is a vessel 30' or longer
that is used for pleasure or racing. I guess that excludes
workboats, tugboats, pilotboats, etc. I'm sure that exceptions
exists. In my experience a yacht is whatever anybody
chooses to call a yacht. The term has never had any really official
meaning.

Doug
s/v (Yacht) Callista

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An aquiantance of mine today was introducing me to someone while I was
looking at sailing books at barnes and Nobles and he told the other
guy I had a "yacht" and I was insulted. I told him that rednecks who
drive battered old pickup trucks did not own "yachts" and he replied
that any pleasure boat could be considered a yacht. I replied that by
that definition people in Carabelle should consider themselves as
yachtsmen when they carried a six pack in their oysterboats. So,
whats a yacht?