Have been reading the responses with interest. Here’s from a broker’s vantage point: If you’re a seller, I ask you what price you would like to get for your boat. If you’re a buyer, I ask you how you like the yacht we just saw. Somewhat of a wink-wink. I have never had a buyer nor seller object to my calling their vessel a yacht. In writing, I use M/V and M/Y almost interchangeably, but for the smaller boats, I tend to use M/V just to eliminate the pretentious factor. I also use M/V for the more rugged type of boats such as M/V Vector. Judy Waldman

The word yacht, or Jacht in the Netherlands, has become to mean a pleasure vessel used not for commercial use like carrying cargo. Chartering a yacht for pleasure use would enable it to use the term yacht in common parlance. There is usually a limit in size, but whereas years ago a yacht would not be above say 80 feet, (except for Onassis or Lady Docker), nowadays mega yachts are larger than ferries! Like all words over the years, meanings change, but in my 60 years of owning yachts this the one that I have always known. On 06/12/2019 10:35, Judy Waldman via Trawlers-and-Trawlering wrote: > Have been reading the responses with interest. Here’s from a broker’s vantage point: If you’re a seller, I ask you what price you would like to get for your boat. If you’re a buyer, I ask you how you like the yacht we just saw. Somewhat of a wink-wink. I have never had a buyer nor seller object to my calling their vessel a yacht. In writing, I use M/V and M/Y almost interchangeably, but for the smaller boats, I tend to use M/V just to eliminate the pretentious factor. I also use M/V for the more rugged type of boats such as M/V Vector. > > > Judy Waldman > > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers_lists.trawlering.com > > To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options (get password, change email address, etc) go to: http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers_lists.trawlering.com > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.