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• They spent their annual vacation on a chartered yacht in the Caribbean .
• He spent three days adrift on his yacht.
• His eyes were fixed on the distant yacht.
• If they can afford a yacht, they must be rolling in it.
• She sailed around the world single-handed in her yacht.
• cabin cruiser
• dragon boat
• rubber dinghy

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“Yacht.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yacht. Accessed 21 Apr. 2024.

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from obsolete Dutch jaght (now jacht ), short for jachtschip, literally, "hunting ship"

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A yacht (pronounced "yot") is a type of boat which is mainly used for recreation. [1] It usually has a cabin , so it does not need to return to the harbour overnight. Originally, yachts were sailing-boats , but now there are also motor yachts. The name comes from the Dutch word jachtschip , which originally meant hunting-boat or fast boat . Yachts have a fixed keel .

A yacht can vary in size from about 20 feet (6 metres) to 200 feet (60 metres) or more. [2]

Most privately owned yachts fall in the range of about 7 metres (23 ft)-14 metres (46 ft); the cost of building and keeping a yacht rises quickly as length increases. In the United States, sailors tend to refer to smaller yachts as sailboats , while referring to the general sport of sailing as yachting. In sailboat racing, a yacht is any sailing vessel taking part in a race.

Yacht Media

A 45-foot cruising yacht in 2010

The superyacht Azzam , the largest private yacht by length, as of 2018.

An 18th-century Dutch jacht

1893 America's Cup match between Vigilant and Valkyrie II

Steam yacht, Gunilda , ca. 1910

Turkish state yacht, Savarona in 2014, a steam-turbine yacht re-engined with diesels

Maltese Falcon sailing yacht in 2008

Sailing yacht interior with fold-down table in main salon, galley (kitchen) on left, and navigation station on right and forward cabin visible beyond.

Wheelhouse of motor yacht, Taransay , in 2015 with navigation and systems displays

Small sailing yacht with outboard motor in 2017

• ↑ Moretti, Paolo (January 21, 2015). "Yacht classification definitions" . Boat International . Retrieved 2019-04-19 .

Facts About Boats

If you have ever been on a boat you already know how much fun it is.

Boats have been around for thousands of years and play an important role in our lives.

We depend on these “water-vehicles” for many things.

Read on to discover all about boats.

We will be exploring the history of the boat, the different types of boats and so much more.

So grab your lifejacket and lets dive right in.

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The History of Boats

Believe it or not, the first known boat dates back around 8,000 years ago.

Although boats have been around a long time, the Ancient Egyptians were the first to be credited for it.

They made them from the papyrus plant. These boats were long and thin and were used for short trips or fishing along the Nile.

As time went on, the Egyptians became more knowledgeable about the construction of boats.

In fact, these early people learned how to make many different types of these water-vehicles.

Wooden Boats:  these boats were made from the acacia tree and also from cedar they imported from Lebanon.

The Egyptians then added a sail to make traveling faster and easier.

Cargo Ships: As time went on, they learned how to construct bigger boats. These were so sturdy they could hold 500 tons of rocks!

Funeral Boats : these small model boats were used in funerals.

The boat would be buried with a person to help carry them to the afterlife. Some Pharaohs actually had full-size boats buried with them in their tombs.

Ponder This:  the early Egyptians didn’t have any nails. How did they keep their boats from falling apart? Find the answer in More Freaky Factoids.

It’s All About the Buoyancy

We know that boats float, but did you ever wonder how it happens?

The science behind this wonder is really quite simple. It’s called, Buoyancy.

Buoyancy is an invisible upward force. This force goes to work when an object is placed in the water (or any liquid).

If the object is very dense (like a stone) then the force cannot hold it up and it sinks.

The object must be less dense than the water.

When people first started making boats, they realized they needed to hollow them out.

This makes them less dense and allows the water to exert enough force to keep it afloat.

Ponder This:  which boat do you think will move faster, a flat-bottom or a v-shaped bottom?

Types of Boats

Since humans learned how to navigate through the water, they began to build many types of boats. Read on to see how many different boats we use today.

• Cargo ships
• Cruise ships
• Motor boats

Ponder This:  a megayacht is a type of luxury boat owned by a person or even a company. These boats can reach tremendous lengths. How long do you think the biggest megayacht is?

What NOT to Do On a Boat

Since people don’t float all that well, there are some things you should never do on a boat. Check out our safety rules for fun boating.

• Lean over the side as far as you can. This includes having someone hold onto your ankles so you can touch the water.
• Use your Nana’s underwear as a sail. She won’t be happy.
• Spit into the wind as you are zooming along.
• Yell, “man overboard” while flailing your arms with a shocked look on your face.
• Don’t yell “shark” either.
• Do cartwheels
• Rock back and forth as hard as you can, no matter how much your sister screams. It’s not a carnival ride.

Ponder This:  what is the one thing you should ALWAYS do in a boat?

More Freaky Factoids

We haven’t floated over all the fun just yet. Here are the answers to your ponder these questions and more freaky facts. Check it out.

Boat Facts for Kids

• The back part of a boat is called, the stern?
• The front of the boat is a bow?
• The tall pole on a sailboat is called, the mast?
• The body of a boat is the hull?
• The right, forward-facing side of a boat is called starboard?
• The left side of a boat is the port?
• The person in charge of the boat is called, Captain?
• You should always wear a lifejacket in a boat? Even if you are a great swimmer,
• Lifejacket are specially designed vests will keep you afloat.
• The Egyptians used short planks in the construction of their early boats? These were hooked together then tied tightly with ropes.
• A V-shaped bottom boat will move faster than a flat-bottomed? This is because a flat surface has more contact with the water. This creates more drag on the boat, which makes it slow and harder to move.
• Megayachts can reach lengths of 150 meters long (492 feet)?

Now that you have learned all these fascinating facts, you can float over to your friends and family to share your new-found knowledge.

You might just become known as “the captain of the best boat facts ever.”

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Key Stage 1 Oceans and Seas Boats and Ships

Research the development of boats and ships, changes in their power sources, changing length of voyages, the history of regattas and the life of seafarers. Paint, make sketches, write journal entries, use code and write ship telegrams. Carry out floating and sinking experiments, construct boats and finally put on a regatta with sandwiches and prizes!

Session 1 Boats in the past

• Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change.
• Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.
• Recognise and use language relating to dates, including weeks, months and years.
• Compare intervals of time.
• Read numbers to 100 in numerals.
• Use place value and number facts to solve problems.
• Develop drawing techniques in using line, shape and form.

Lesson Planning

Compare ships of different eras; Think about the length of voyages; Make sketches and create a timeline of ships.

Teaching Outcomes To order boats chronologically and identify features of old and modern boats. To compare journey lengths in terms of hours, days, weeks, months and order dates by considering the numerals that represent the century, the decade, and the year. To draw a sketch of a boat or ship.

Children will:

• Identify and compare features of boats and ships of different ages.
• Create a timeline of ships.
• Use language relating to the measurement of time: hours, days, weeks, months.
• Order dates chronologically using century, decade, year.
• Use a pencil to sketch a boat.

Provided Resources

• Time and date cards
• Boat and ship images
• Cruise ships old and new images for ordering
• Unit Resources

You Will Need

• Sketching paper
• Drawing pencils

A modern cruise ship − YouTube clip

Session 2 How are boats and ships used?

• Use painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination,
• Learn about the work of a range of artists and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.
• Say sentences out loud before writing them.
• Re-read what they have written to check that it makes sense.
• Write for different purposes.
• Use simple connectives to join clauses.

Look at the different design features of boats and ships; Use watercolours to paint a picture of a ship with a specific purpose.

Teaching Outcomes To explore design features of boats with specific functions; To paint a boat using watercolours. To write a clue card to accompany their paintings.

• Match the design features of boats to their functions.
• Paint a ship or boat with a specific purpose, using watercolours.
• Write a clue card about their painting.
• Artwork of ships and boats
• Ink & watercolour paintings
• Boat and ship images (from session 1)
• Watercolour paints and brushes
• Sticky labels

There are no weblinks needed for this session.

Session 3 Life at sea

• Use the past tense correctly and consistently.

Learn about the differences between life at sea in the past and the present; Read fictional journal entries of sailors and voyagers; Write journal entries in role as a seafarer.

Teaching Outcomes To identify and discuss life at sea in the past and present; To match journal entries to a ship type and era. To write a journal entry for someone at sea in the past.

• Match ship images to fictional journal entries.
• Identify the differences between life at sea in the past and present.
• Write a journal entry in role as a seafarer in the past.
• Journal entries
• Working ships past and present
• Background information cards

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Session 4 Ship-to-ship communication in the past

• Learn about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally.
• Leave spaces between words.
• Punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.

Learn about the history of ship-to-ship communication and then write, code and decode ship telegrams.

Teaching Outcomes To explore ship-to-ship communication past and present and learn the story of Titanic and her maiden voyage. To compose and decipher telegraph messages using Morse code and to create an exhibition poster about ship communication ‘then and now’.

• Look at ship-to-ship communication past and present.
• Explore the Marconi telegraph system, writing, coding and decoding ship telegrams.
• Learn the story of Titanic and its voyage.
• Create a poster comparing sea communications in 1915 and 2015.
• Titanic collision map
• Marconi wireless sets
• Morse code key
• Example Marconigram form
• Blank Marconigram form
• Morse code messages
• Morse code message solutions
• Sea communication statements
• Poster paper

The story of how Titanic sank from nmni.com The Titantic Marconigrams from nmni.com SOS in Morse code − YouTube clip

Session 5 How do boats stay afloat?

• Observe closely, using simple equipment.
• Perform simple tests.
• Use observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
• Use technology purposefully to create, store and retrieve digital content.
• Measure and begin to record mass/weight.
• Choose and use appropriate standard units to measure mass (kg/g) to the nearest appropriate unit, using scales.

Carry out simple floating and sinking experiments and begin to understand why heavy metal boats float.

Teaching Outcomes To experiment with objects to find out what floats and what sinks. To make suggestions as to why objects float or sink. To record experiments using digital photography equipment. To measure the weight of various materials and objects.

• Conduct and record simple experiments to explore floating and sinking.
• Offer explanations as to why heavy metal boats float.
• Explore whether salt water and fresh water affect an object’s ability to float.
• Make predictions based on own knowledge, previous experience and observations.
• Use photography to record the results of experiments.
• Use scales to weigh objects.
• Large container ship
• Tubs of water
• Floating bath toy
• Metal object, same size as bath toy
• Modelling clay
• Whole, uncooked eggs
• Digital cameras
• Range of small objects of varying buoyancy

Ship launch − YouTube clip

Session 6 How are boats powered?

Design and Technology

• Explore and use mechanisms in their products.
• Design purposeful, functional, appealing products based on design criteria.
• Select from and use a wide range of materials and components according to their characteristics.
• Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria.
• Construct simple pictograms.
• Answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity.
• Ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data.

Explore how boats move through water; Construct simple boats with a range of power sources.

Teaching Outcomes To construct simple paddle-, propeller- and sail-boats. To create a pictogram of boat power sources and analyse the data.

• Explore the different ways boats move through water.
• Construct simple paddle-, propeller- and sail-boats.
• Create a pictogram showing boat power sources.
• How do they move?
• Pictogram images
• Pictogram grid
• For balloon boats: balloons, pens, bendy straws, thin rubber bands, tape, styrofoam containers
• For rubber-band boats: rubber bands, markers, rulers, styrofoam or thick card and electrical tape
• For cork sailboats: corks, coloured paper, toothpicks, beads, small screwdriver, cutting mat.

Boat propeller − YouTube clip How to make balloon-powered boats from sophie-world.com How to make rubber-band powered boats from livingonthecheap.com How to make cork sail-boats from redtedart.com

Session 7 What boat shape is best?

• Recognise, identify and describe the properties of 2-D shapes, including the number of sides and line symmetry in a vertical line.

Investigate different boat hull shapes and find out which is the most efficient for moving through water.

Teaching Outcomes To identify and create regular and irregular 2D shapes to make the basis of a boat’s shape. To explore how different shapes affect how a boat moves through water.

• Identify and label irregular and regular shapes, relating to a boat’s hull.
• Experiment to find which boat shape is the most efficient.
• Boat ahapes
• Tin-foil boats
• Shape sheet 1
• Shape sheet 2
• Trays of water
• Small electric fans

A fish swimming − YouTube clip

Session 8 Boat building

• Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves based on design criteria.
• Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking and drawing.
• Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, according to their characteristics.
• Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria
• Use simple punctuation accurately.

Design and build a boat, with a power source, to carry a small load.

Teaching Outcomes To design and make a boat that will travel quickly, in a straight line and carrying a load. To write a brief description of their boat design.

• Design a boat with a power source that can float, move in a straight path and carry a small load.
• Make the boat they have designed using a range of materials and tools.
• Evaluate and modify their boat design when completed.
• Write a description of their boat.

This session does not need any provided resources.

• Shape sheet 1 (from session 7)
• Shape sheet 2 (from session 7)
• Small cargo e.g. a rubber
• Boat-building tools and supplies: Balloons, pens, bendy straws, thin rubber bands, tape, styrofoam containers, rulers, styrofoam, thick card, electrical tape, scissors, glue, corks, coloured paper, toothpicks, beads, small screwdriver, cutting mat, juice or milk cartons, plastic tubing

How to make balloon-powered boats from sophie-world.com How to make rubber-band powered boats from livingonthecheap.com How to make cork sail-boats from redtedart.com

Session 9 Class regatta

• Learn about changes in living memory.
• Name and locate the world’s seven continents.
• Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify continents.

Compare regattas from the modern day and the past; Design and make sandwiches for a class regatta; Test boats and award prizes.

Teaching Outcomes To write a clue card to accompany their paintings. To design and make sandwiches; To test out boats against a design brief

• Explore the history of regattas through images and film.
• Design and make sandwiches from a range of ingredients.
• Test their boats against a design brief.
• Modern regattas
• Historic regattas
• Model boats made in session 8
• 3 small prizes
• Range of sandwich ingredients
• Plates and plastic knives

Henley Royal Regattas in recent years from hrr.co.uk Henley Royal Regatta in 1920 − YouTube clip

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Design a boat

Water pushes upwards with a force called ‘upthrust’. (You can feel this if you try to push a light object such as a balloon or aeroboard under water). The shape of a ‘boat’ affects the weight (passengers/cargo) it can hold. The more water that the boat displaces the more it will float and therefore the more weight it can take.

This lesson  examines the relationship between the shape of  a boat and the amount of passengers it holds. Children will  investigate different shaped boats to discover the best design.

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Yacht in a Sentence  🔊

Definition of Yacht

a sail-boat used for racing or pleasure rides

Examples of Yacht in a sentence

The family boarded the yacht and prepared to set sail to a private island where they would spend the day.  🔊

On Saturday, we raced our yacht against another sailboat in the same marina.  🔊

Because one of the sails on the yacht is broken, the sailors will have to find another boat to take on the water excursion.  🔊

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