Doug Dotson wrote:
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.

Actually, it has...a yacht is any pleasure vessel--to distinguish it
from commercial vessels. It's just not used that way much any
more...today, in the US it typically refers to any pleasure boat over
40' (Chapmans)...in the UK, it's any SAILboat.

My favorite definition is, "how you refer to your boat when trying to
impress anyone you know will never see it."

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Peggie
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