Yacht

Yacht

A yacht is a recreational boat. It designates two rather different classes ofwatercraft: sailing and power yachts. Yachts are differentiated from workingships mainly by their leisure purposes. It was not until the ascendancy of thesteamboat and other types of powerboat that sailing vessels in general came tobe perceived as luxury items. However, since the level of luxury on largeryachts has seen an increasing trend, the use of the word yacht to mean anysailing vessel has been diminishing and is more and more limited to racingyachts or cruising yachts.
Yacht lengths generally start at 32–35 feet (10–11 m) and go up to hundreds offeet. A mega yacht generally refers to any yacht (sail or power) above 100' or34 m and a super yacht generally refers to any yacht over 200' or 70 m. Thissize is small in relation to typical cruise liners and oil tankers.