When is a "boat" considered a "yacht"?
 

What length (or something else) would you consider a "boat" transitions to a "yacht"? Or do you just consider them all boats?

What up Gboat?! Long time no talk! I think the more pressing question is when does a yacht transitions to a ship!????

When the selling broker knows he can get you excited and get further into your bank account by making you feel superior, everything becomes a ‘yacht’. 🙂

RR

A yacht is any boat that has a cabin and facilities that can accommodate overnight use.

My friends 26 ft Searay is a yacht. My 28 ft Searay Sundancer was a yacht and my Formula Fastech 292 is a yacht .

There are a few definitions and my Excalibur 45 meets most of them. But my definition of a yacht is something I can't
afford hahaha.

Shameless pictures of my 'non-yacht'.

http://i.imgur.com/INXVhwnl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bXA8mdRl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/djuQhoPl.jpg

A ship is per definition a “boat” longer than 24meters 74,78ft.

//Peter

Interesting discussion, I was led to believe yacht was properly described over the 24 meter mark that has accommodations and the term ship was applied for when the vessel was described in terms of tonnage/ captains credentials over a certain requirement

On the Great Lakes ships are called boats regardless of their size.

It becomes a Yacht depending on the Quality of the Skanks...

For sure.

The Fountain 48 Express must really open up many possibilities. We’ll call it a very wide power band. Braap ! Lol

To those of us attached/embarked on the USS Enterprise, she was affectionately known as "the boat"...to anyone else, she was the "mighty warship".

Ps-never a yacht

Not sure how it would do in the Loto washboard.

Not biting .

Easy: Yachts cannot be trailered, boats can

Now we’ll need to start a new thread to define “trailered”. 🙂


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This one looks ‘road ready’….

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...808850bb6.jpeg

Towed by the owner, legally to and from the ramp..........:D

wow!

Not really sure But I think it is Conceded a Yacht when the Boat is 65' or more in Length. It might be 85' not Sure.

Definition
 

A lot of interesting comments here, but by definition.....

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. The Commercial Yacht Code classifies yachts 79 ft (24 m) and over as large.

I Think that we should check in the Chilton Book of the Sea., as of now I can not find the Book I will Get Back to this Later.

Wow, those trailers.

39'+