How To Use Yacht In A Sentence

When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
The suspended flotilla includes modern powerboats, yachts and coracles.
Friends pointed to his comments at the weekend in which he refuted claims that he had sold his yacht. Times, Sunday Times
The ferries, warships, water taxis, huge container vessels, yachts and fishing tinnies ply with impunity one of the greatest anchorages and working harbours in the world.
They spent their annual holiday on a chartered yacht in the Caribbean.

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They're yachts, mainly, and very beautiful, and it wasn't long before my wife was coaxed into taking lessons.
International class equestrian and yachting are expensive sports to compete in at the top, and not exactly third world sports.
Each yacht carries knowledgeable skippers and crew members. Times, Sunday Times
The yachting industry is being seen now as a significant employment and revenue generator, through marinas, boatyards, other commercial enterprises, as well as yachting events.
The harbour has both a commercial quayside and marina which was crowded with expensive yachts and cruisers.
In any kind of breeze they smoke like a forest fire, sending clouds of grey dust over the moored yachts and into harbourside streets.
This picture does not do justice to the attractiveness of all the boats and yachts that are anchored in this area.
He drew on his experience as a yachtsman to make a documentary programme.
``Silver here, my darling wife, insists on the services of a particular yacht upholsterer. THE SHIPPING NEWS
He relishes an opulent lifestyle with palatial homes in Europe and America, private jets, two yachts and a helicopter.
I was bobbing along in my father-in-law's small yacht with my wife and small baby when we were attacked by a jet-skier who raced at us at high speed before turning sharply, sending a wall of water over us in the boat.
These colonies soon boasted yacht clubs, fox hunts, formal dinners, and elaborate banquets.
Last week the frustration was shared from the top deck of the bus to the foredeck of the luxury yacht. Our dependence on new technology has its scary side | Observer editorial
When her toilette was complete it must be admitted that as a yachtswoman The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
The proprietor, Bob Blanc, has plans to construct what he calls ‘boatel’ units - simple accommodations for the yachties using the marina.
Welcome to Wine Country Yacht Charters, Napa County's most unpretentious place to relax and drink wine.
So this is the zillionaire luxury yacht lifestyle.
There are few sights more lonesome than a yacht out of water. Times, Sunday Times
Contact with other disabled yachtsmen of like mind would be helpful.
I asked to be transported to a sailing yacht, cruising just offshore of that beach.
He wished the crew, skippered by black yachtswoman Cole, good luck, adding: "We'll watch. ANC Daily News Briefing
Or tying up in the harbour at Monaco for a champagne knees-up with the yachting set? Times, Sunday Times
He will later go sailing on Auckland Harbour in a New Zealand America's Cup yacht and have a traditional indigenous Maori "hangi" meal cooked in a pit in the ground. Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
Where once the harbour might have had a currach or two tied up, the inlet is now festooned with yachts and dinghies and motor boats and punts of all shapes and sizes.
Second, buoyage and charting are limited - and there's no Coast Guard or TowBoatU.S. to save your bacon if you skewer your yacht on a reef.
He defiantly skirted the Italian coastline aboard his luxury yacht, taunting the authorities who had steadfastly refused to allow him to set foot in his native country for more than half a century.
One chartered a yacht - for his dog. Times, Sunday Times
That sits well with the yacht race, representing one of mankind's cleanest pursuits.
We need fewer professional spectators and more teenage yachtswomen, aviators, mountaineers, risk-takers in every field. Times, Sunday Times
A yachter in South Africa says her trip off the country's picturesque southwestern coast was wrecked by an unexpected whack from a whale. CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports
They were able to swim down and then out of the hull to join eight other tourists and the yacht's master on the deck linking the hulls of the upturned craft.
There is a tourist office, diving and other sports companies, a beach and yacht marina. Times, Sunday Times
It was easy enough to do if you didn't know the eccentricities of a yacht's fuel system, and all of them were uniquely different. CORMORANT
We made a tour of the yacht, checking lashings and emergency gear.
A few hours before the onset of what is supposed to be a "multi-day" and "life-threatening" blizzard, over one hundred Chicagoans gathered to sample Chicago's best seafood chowders at the Columbia Yacht Club. Caroline O'Donovan: At the Chowdah Fest
Naturally, the conversation turned towards the difficulties of dedicating time to the demands of competitive yacht racing, pre-empted by the pressure of official duties.
his yacht is a 60-footer
Craig Alexander and Barry Scott, both 27, realised that crewing expensive yachts under a Caribbean sun offered more than fun.
‘I know sailors all over the country and I believe they can be mobilized as a constituency for change in ocean policy,’ says Rockefeller, himself a former yacht club commodore.
He also has a 12m yacht moored in Monaco harbour. Times, Sunday Times
When a yachtie decides to have an AC system as part of the electrics aboard, this new system tends to dominate all of the others.
The crew seemed unable to right the capsized yacht.
I bought a small boat, then he went one better and bought a yacht.
Team up with another family, go yacht cruising. Times, Sunday Times
Specialist products also include credit arrangements for buying yachts and small aircraft. Times, Sunday Times
An eight-metre yacht is due to arrive here today after it was dismasted and almost capsized in gale-force winds along the Wild Coast late on Tuesday night.
However Albert said that sailing on the Asgard was a completely different experience to sailing on smaller boats and yachts.
Once the home of John Grey, one of the great names in Irish yachting, this Victorian mid-terrace property is now owned by the artist Desmond McCarthy.
In the absence of steerage way, the yacht can't head up; the misplaced center of effort takes charge, and she yaws.
A passerby on shore heard the cries for help, broke a window in a yacht club, grabbed a pair of oars, slipped a punt in the water and rowed out to where he heard the shouting.
You have just become the first solo yachtswoman to circumnavigate the globe non-stop, the wrong way round. Times, Sunday Times
The Yacht Club is designed to excite, inspire and strengthen the concept that is Yas.
They have yachts available for charter.
The new International Rules of Yacht Racing, covering the triennium 2001-2004, were implemented for the first time in an Optimist regatta in Asia and the race organizers watched with great interest.
I went to the El Gouna marina, not yet filled with white polished yachts because the international yachting brigade were still out in the Med.
They say that the width between those long-lashed eyes is a common peculiarity of the artist's face; but she is no longer an artist; she is only the brave young yachtswoman who lives at Castle Dare. Macleod of Dare
Celebrities arrived in yachts instead of limos.
However, by then we'd bunked on yachts and in shared backpacker dorms.
The most stylish party nowadays would be one held on a yacht, reminiscent of historic entertainment on royal boats or magnificent junks.
Easily trumping both Musha and Necker at 1, 000 square acres, Parrot Cay (formerly named Pirate Cay, before the owners thought better of it) is only accessible by boat, so yacht owners are preferred.
A fluffy cloud above the majestic Royal Yacht Britannia marks it out as a centre piece.
The deal flies in the face of convention - most teams in the yacht race are bankrolled by billionaire businessmen and international companies. Times, Sunday Times
It costs £1000 a week to hire the yacht, plus a £120 refundable/returnable deposit.
Boarding the luxury yacht was strange - walk along a gangway, but then pull yourself up on a rope that enabled you to clamber aboard.
Last night, as strong gusts and heavy squalls hit the east coast, yachts were ripped from their moorings and more than half a million homes and businesses were left without power.
COPS in Gibraltar are hunting a yacht owner over the disappearance of a British expat mum. The Sun
‘The yacht was heeling over at 35 degrees, and the effort to get up the steps was beyond belief,’ she says.
The Royal is more luxury yacht than cruise ship. The Sun
BeefBar is situated overlooking the harbour in the Fontveille quarter, so you enjoy your meal while gazing covetously at the superyachts moored there. Review - BeefBar, Monaco 17 October 2008
The bosses drive Mercs, own villas in Portugal, and sail their yachts.
We first visited the village of Sand Beach, and returned at nightfall to the breakwater, which is five miles distant from the former; here the yacht was cabled to the dock. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
A Saudi prince brought six supercars to Barcelona on on his yacht and raced them on the grand prix circuit. Times, Sunday Times
You'll rake this whole yacht fleet with your old dumpcart! Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916
Boat trips to dive and snorkelling sites are available too, or charter a yacht from the marina which also has cafes, restaurants and shops. Times, Sunday Times
The Yacht pub in Clontarf was buzzing at midnight last night and strong drink was being consumed at a terrific rate.
She was a beautiful old steam yacht belonging originally to the Guinness family.
One of the most admirable aspects of sailing and yacht racing is that, using only Nature's powers - the wind and the tide - a sailing craft leaves no flotsam and jetsom in its wake, only pristine waters.
Never has so much sound and not so sound money been poured down the drink in the name of sport and the business of yachting.
The Victorian steam yacht was originally designed in the form of a Venetian gondola and was first launched in 1859 on Coniston Water.
Yachts peppered the tranquil waters of Botafogo Bay.
The crew made a distress call after their 47 foot yacht started dragging its anchor and was in danger of going ashore onto the rocks.
One of the more unusual recruits to the unit was Tramp, a mongrel dog found starving and very ill in a puddle under the yacht.
This mini-workshop is run by Anna Woolf, who has built three ocean-going yachts and has sailed solo around the world.
It specialises in the manufacture of radar for recreational craft, including yachts and powerboats.
But for travelers accustomed to the bells and whistles of a big ship, a week at sea with little more than card games and some old DVDs for entertainment can make even the cushiest yacht feel like a dinghy. Cruise Ships Out; Yachts In
But French yachties and tourists from Guadeloupe have discovered the place, and a cheerful touristic complex of restaurants and shops has grown up to service visitors.
The terrified pair cancelled a planned yachting trip round the Greek islands. The Sun
Lovesick Goodman was nabbed while skippering his seven-metre yacht RoyAnna.
Known for opulence,the MSC Fantasia boasts the exclusive MSC yacht club featuring a staircase of Swarovski crystals as well as a private lounge with transparent ceilings.
He wrote to the Yacht Club, the Nelson City Council, the Ombudsman, the Minister for Local Government, the Prime Minister.
Usps was formed, in 1914, largely in response to the perceived need to inculcate skills in a new breed of yachtsmen - powerboat owners - who were just entering the sport.
The Challenge is a prestigious yacht race, westerly circumnavigating the world against the prevailing winds and tides.
Once in Saint Tropez, a paparazzo followed us along the yachted pier, convinced he'd picked up on the scent of young Hollywood. Madeline the Admired
Already, we've got presumptuous soccer powerhouses in flames; clotheshorse managers who appear to be angling for invites aboard Valentino's yacht; referees under siege; and unforgettably melodramatic acting. Now Appearing in South Africa: Les Mis
A flotilla of more than 50 boats, yachts and lifeboats surrounded the magnificent ship as it sailed majestically into its home port.
You didn't actually believe him when he said he had a yacht, did you? Oh, Annie, you sucker!
He returned to his boat at the yacht basin and fell into the water after feeling ill as he boarded the boat.
Two day rental of a performance sailboard will run $125, for a grand total of $584 for whole weekend, not counting the cost of food (which would probably be dining at Wendy's rather than the local yacht club).
The Coupé and Convertible carry a new rear valance which communicates a tasteful sporting charm through its integrated rear diffusor and two distinctive double-ended exhaust pipes, a little like the stern of powerful luxury yachts. Top Speed
BT Global Challenge Yacht Race 2000-2001 as a sponsor of the Spirit of Hong Kong, a 72-foot racing yacht built in the Mainland by a Hong Kong company.
Susan Polan of Illustrated Properties calls the home "magnificent" but says the price is aggressive given its location near airplane paths and the lack of immediate access to a beach or yacht dockage. Palm Beach Mansion Asks $74 Million
Powerboat racing, rowing and sailing or yachting are three kinds of sport events on water.
Two of the Americans, Jean and Scott Adam, had been sailing around the world on their yacht since 2004 and were joined for this journey by Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, veteran sailors who had previously circumnavigated the globe in their own vessel. Somali Pirates Kill Four U.S. Hostages
We love Camachee Cove Marina here, with its enclosed basin, two lounges, Internet access, two loaner cars and yacht yard.
Yesterday a fleet of boats carried flowers to the yacht. The Sun
A seaman from the yacht said that on 13 December, he had been removed from the vessel by "two armed men" and brought to a larger group of "30 armed men," who questioned him about the numbers of the arresting party and threatened to "make a Sacrifice of him" if he did not answer truly. Gutenber-e Help Page
Until the very end he was famous for extravagances and spent millions on yachts, helicopters, planes and homes around the world, including an $11m apartment in New York whose furnishings are the source of his current tax problems.
The waters of Carrick Roads are also used by fishermen, yachtsmen, windsurfers, canoeists and divers.
In the past, veggies in shorefront gardens have been plundered by raiding parties from visiting yachts. Times, Sunday Times
The Lifeboat arrived on scene in moderate conditions in a South Easterly 4 to 5, to find the Yacht hard aground on a mudbank at the entrance to the Camplie River.
Now when many individuals hear the term yacht club they see a collection of yacht owners gathering often to talk about their marine experiences. BluWiki - Recent changes [en]
Flotsam and jetsam drifted from the yacht, some having already washed ashore.
A Saudi prince brought six supercars to Barcelona on on his yacht and raced them on the grand prix circuit. Times, Sunday Times
More excitingly, perhaps, sand-yachting is a popular pastime. Times, Sunday Times
For all his talk about sport car and yacht, he's just an ordinary bank - clerk.
The two yachts are locked in a duel for the championship title.
“Sir Bernard seemed to think I might have purposely gybed the yacht; is that what you think?” The Short Forever
In order to get the most out of a yacht charter, the minimum length of trip should be about 7 days.
In this installment we get to see all the players converge on a yacht owned by one of the richest men in New York, and discover what all the commotion is about. Review: Die Hard: Year One #3 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
These craft run the gamut from sleek international racing yachts to historic workboats.
The purpose-built yacht is crewed by four to five professional sailors, out of whom only the skipper is paid a salary.
At the beginning of September, the migrants begin passing through, bound for their northern homes - big yachts back to Oregon or Puget Sound, squid boats and draggers up to Sitka.
Back in the cockpit he decided it was time to tack, but found the yacht would not point up into the wind.
Their lavish lifestyles featured numerous overseas properties, wine collections and a luxury yacht. Times, Sunday Times
The resorts, which range from campgrounds to luxury hotels, often welcome yachters, and several of them offer either moorings or marina accommodation, at a price.
Another yacht was dismasted off the The Needles and was towed into Poole by the Swanage lifeboat.
Scattering the soil across the bemused peccary, Neil uncovered the arms and face of the younger of the Swedish yachtsmen. RUSHING TO PARADISE
At the time of her hiring, according to Anders, she asked HP to pay to move her yacht from the East Coast to the West Coast through the Panama Canal. Books About Schnooks
Their lavish lifestyles featured numerous overseas properties, wine collections and a luxury yacht. Times, Sunday Times
Ships, yachts and aircraft carry emergency beacons which are activated when they come into contact with water, sending a signal on a reserved frequency that identifies the vessel and its approximate location.
Alternatively, if you have no experience whatsoever with yachting then you can take an entire crew and spend your vacation safe in the knowledge that your boat and your vacation are in safe hands.
Contact with other disabled yachtsmen of like mind would be helpful.
Pilothouse motoryachts differ from more traditional motoryachts in that they have a separate, fully enclosed helm raised above deck level similar to bridges found on large commercial vessels and workboats.
You may recall I told you about Lil who quit his job here to start a charter yacht business.
Complaints were made by the operators of wharves, by yacht clubs whose moorings were affected and by others to whom I shall refer in more detail at a later stage.
Firstly, you need to consider the type of yacht charter that is suitable for you.
A post-mortem examination of the yachtsman is due to be held today. Times, Sunday Times
On any given vessel you might find a teacher, a doctor, an investment banker, or a leather-skinned yachtie who travels from festival to festival. CNN.com
This ship was often known as the "nef," and frequently had a name, as if it were the family yacht! Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
Their videos evoked a glamorous existence, globetrotting around tropical locations; they were sharply dressed; they went out with supermodels; their lead singer had nearly drowned in a yacht race.
Getting to host the race was a coup for the Santa Cruz Yacht Club.
More than 16,000 sailors will take part in the largest yacht race of its kind in the world. Times, Sunday Times
The marina at Troon is the perfect place to sip a few sundowners as you watch the yachts come in, and Culzean Castle is an astounding place to visit, with spectacular views and fabulous gardens.
She speaks with the sort of received pronunciation you might expect from a former yachtswoman brought up in the Home Counties.
The Victorian steam yacht was originally designed in the form of a Venetian gondola and was first launched in 1859 on Coniston Water.
This vintage expression, which gives the movie its title, is uttered by Ince when he contemplates the revels Hearst has planned for the producer's birthday celebrations aboard the mogul's splendiferous yacht, the Oneida.
This facility is also used as a Yachting Centre to promote a healthy lifestyle amongst students.
Another gunboat was the "Presidente," which had figured in history, for it was nothing less than the yacht "Deerhound," on which the Confederate Admiral Santo Domingo A Country with a Future
A light south-easterly was forecast for the Sunday's Royal Windermere Yacht Club Flying Fifteen race in the Spring Series.
On Monday 18 yachts sailed in the north lake where an extremely strong wind from the north created survival conditions on the windward leg to FBA North.
Boats of various shapes and sizes were built, yachts, smaller sailing craft, yawls, lighters for transporting sand and gravel, punts, racing gigs and even speedboats in the late 1930's.
He spent millions on his art collection, yachts, and palatial homes, including a castle in Wales, reining in only when his media empire was threatened with bankruptcy.
William later went sailing on Auckland Harbour, taking the helm of a New Zealand America's Cup yacht and on Sunday night was to be hosted at a traditional indigenous Maori "hangi" meal cooked in a pit in the ground. Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
Everyone who makes more money than me can pretty much lick my balls, unless they’re inviting me on their yacht (which I will pronounce "yacked"). STRIKE OVER?
He has a 151-foot ocean-going yacht, the Highlander, with a helicopter deck (even though it's been temporarily mothballed in deference to the dismal economy) and I don't. A Beastly Pursuit, in Rhyme
At the same time he changed the training and technique for small boat yacht racing, realising that the fitter he was the faster he would go. Times, Sunday Times
The island is a staging-post for many visiting yachts on their way south.
Simon Talbot from St Osyth was skippering a 53 ft yacht on a trip from Sweden to Cork when the accident happened.
The marina harbours ships and yachts of the high and mighty as well as modest ones for the common man.
That first week in December always heralded in the dry, cooler and stronger north-easterlies, absolutely ideal conditions for yacht racing off Phuket's lovely shore-lines, coasts and surrounding islands.
So when I awoke on Sunday and noted that we were in for a grey and drizzly day, I felt in no mood to attend the party at the yacht club. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
However, harbour rules forbid owners with permanent moorings to spend more than a couple of nights a week aboard their yachts, so they cannot become a permanent home.
There are two pools, or you can hire a skippered yacht. Times, Sunday Times
For Charles Pool, owner of the marina and of Yacht Services Ltd, the marina's parent company and boatyard, boats are more than just a rich man's plaything; they're a way of life.
It was no great full-riggd ship, nor majestic steamer, steering firmly through the gale, but seemd one of those superb little schooner yachts I had often seen lying anchord, rocking so jauntily, in the waters around New York, or up Long Island soundnow flying uncontrolld with torn sails and broken spars through the wild sleet and winds and waves of the night. Edgar Poe’s Significance. Specimen Days
And finally that vital feminine touch with the two British yachtswomen, Dee CAFFARI and Sam DAVIES. ISAF News
Something called the Delos, a private yacht, I should imagine, and, as you say, sinking. Santorini
They are cruising on a large motor yacht.
They proceeded to fly at ridiculous and dangerous speeds around moored yachts and trawlers in their powerboats and jet skis and not a single lifejacket among them and no sign of anyone being around to stop them.
Soon they were talking about mailing details of their race to yacht clubs all over Europe. FINAL RESORT
Hundreds of boats; ocean-going yachts, power boats and cruisers, with the crews aboard all awaiting his signal. FINAL RESORT
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And the Kaiser was unwise to sneer that his uncle Edward VII went yachting with Thomas Lipton, the purveyor of bacon and tea to the urban consumer.
William and Kate took a dip off a nude beach, then lazed on the deck of their borrowed yacht while vacationing on Ibiza in 2006. William and Kate
Reading William F. Buckley's piece "Aweigh" (July/August Atlantic) reminded me that before my books started getting published, I supported my writing addiction by refinishing brightwork on yachts. When George Meets John
The big yacht-politics story of the week comes from Florida, where Jeff Greene -- the titanically wealthy housing-market shorting tycoon running for the Democratic nomination for Senate -- has come under fire for rolling down to Cuba in his 145-foot yacht, Summerwind, on a jaunt that left the decks of said vessel "caked" in "vomit. Jeff Greene, Florida Senate Candidate, Is The Latest And Greatest Entry In 2010's Yacht Follies (VIDEO)
I sketched out the sign---Hamm's Yacht Upholstery---with a full-rigged sailing ship under the letters. THE SHIPPING NEWS
Visiting yachts will find several marinas on Paradise island itself and on East Bay Street, east of the bridge.
The Congressman avoids paying personal property taxes on his 42-foot yacht by docking it in Alton, Illinois instead of his hometown. “My name is RUSS CARNAHAN, Congressman!” | RedState
In the middle, a sheltered harbour full of yachts is framed by a busy quayside. Times, Sunday Times
To carry out his plan, the executant would have needed quite some time alone on the yacht. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
We're not talking sea-going yacht or racing catamaran here, just a simple flat-bottomed boat to get a closer look at the reef and marine life.
The naturally perfect horseshoe-shaped harbor is filled with mega cruise ships, sailing yachts, sloops, ferryboats, and fishing craft.
‘Traditionally, yachting has been perceived as a pursuit of the rich and famous, particularly sailing in places such as the Caribbean,’ said Alexander.
Friends of missing yachtie Paul Van Rensburg are "shattered" that a search of his yacht this morning failed to find any sign of him. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
In the dark of night, a 150-foot yacht packed to the gunwales with explosives slowly steams toward Naval Station Norfolk.
They think the only way to impress anyone is to buy a yacht. Times, Sunday Times
As we started the climb, I told the crew that they must helm the yacht very carefully on the opposite tack, as the rigging was only holding up one side of the mast.
Nine boats turned out for the J.M. Sladen Trophy race in the north lake while three helms with light-weather yachts decided to sit this one out.
The Geraldton Yacht Club has floated plans to move its premises to the Batavia Coast Marina.
The queerest ship that ever sailed is a yacht on wheels, a graceful land-going clipper, that glides over the pathless stretches of sun-blistered plain, and carries her plucky navigators to and from their gold mine in the desert. 2008 April
How many people actually care about Olympic archery or yachting?
Then Mr. Clegg sailed the Yacht with his wife and family on board on a cruise lasting about eight days to Falmouth, Alderney and back to Poole.
I opened the gate for Gene Wilder at a yacht moorage near Seattle, and Chuck Norris stopped his Jeep in Alberton, MT when I was walking The Gypsy in a snowstorm. What is yalls favorite country song
Vic is the commodore and an original member of the yacht club.

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