They include:<\/p>\n
“Size and Price:” \u00a0As far as size is concerned, in an informal poll of those who should know the answer to such things, the minimum size that will qualify as a yacht is 33′. \u00a0I don’t know where that particular size comes from but have seen that referenced before. \u00a0Well, Pandora is 47′ so “Check” on the S&P scale.<\/p>\n
“Yacht Attitude:” \u00a0Well, I’d say that Pandora, with her muscular profile and hard dodger,\u00a0qualifies on that score. \u00a0 \u00a0She certainly turns heads based on the number of questions I get about her.<\/p>\n
Next is “Time and Money:” \u00a0This question assumes that you are willing to spend the considerable time and money required to keep your yacht from slipping into the obscurity and decayed state of “boatiness”. \u00a0Well, I sure qualify on those scores. However, he goes on to suggest that for the owner to do the work themselves will lead to a large discount on the yacht quotient.<\/p>\n
Oh well, I’ll have to think about that a bit. \u00a0But wait, all is not lost. I could sell Pandora and trade down to a 33 footer and hire someone to work on her with the money I save but that’s a real non-starter for Brenda so I guess the problem remains.<\/p>\n
Finally, a key in all of this is about the attitude of the owner. \u00a0He says, “If you are more Grey Poupon than French\u2019s mustard, more monogrammed than markdown, and more Topsider than sneaker…” This means that you are a yachtsman.<\/p>\n
Well, I own several jars of Grey Poupon, use them up regularly so I have to buy more and have many mogrammed shirts, bags etc . \u00a0However, I can not tell a lie and I do LOVE getting stuff on sale. \u00a0I also have Topsiders. but they are a bit shabby.<\/p>\n
So, how does all this add up for Pandora? Is she a yacht of a lowly boat? \u00a0 Such are the pressing questions of the universe.<\/p>\n
Still confused? \u00a0All is not lost and to sum this up in a more scientific way, he offers five questions to confirm, or not, your status.<\/p>\n
Of course, not to put too fine a point on it, \u00a0but all yachts are indeed boats but not all boats are yachts.<\/p>\n
So, is Pandora a yacht? \u00a0 \u00a0According to the author, “If any more than three of the following five items\u00a0are true, you pass the test:”<\/p>\n
“1. You refer to your boat as \u201cshe\u201d rather than \u201cit\u201d. ” \u00a0I pass on this one. \u00a0Note that “she” is repeated often in my posts and several times in this one.
\n“2. Maintenance and upgrades are done by someone else.” \u00a0Oops? \u00a0I pay for those things that I can’t or won’t do. \u00a0If I had more $$ I’d hire EVERYTHING out. Promise… \u00a0However, I am not willing to trade down to be able to afford to have someone else do the work for me. \u00a0Besides, when I am cruising I have to be able to fix stuff as there isn’t anyone else there to do it for me. boat or yacht. \u00a0And, I hate being aboard a broken boat er: yacht.
\n“3. You deduct the loan payments by considering the boat as a second home.” \u00a0Hmm… That seems like a very materialistic way to look at it and in direct conflict with the “if you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it” set. \u00a0\u00a0However, we spend half of the year aboard, so she’s a yacht on that point, deduction or not.<\/p>\n
“4. Etiquette and clean feet are more important to you on board than on dry land.” Yahoo!!! A big win for me on this!!! \u00a0How may “yachties” do you know who have been dubbed “the nicest anal retentive person I have ever met”? \u00a0That would be me.<\/p>\n
“5. Gawkers from the dock often say \u201cNice yacht,\u201d with a straight face” \u00a0 Hmm… \u00a0I guess you’ll have to stand on the dock and listen.<\/p>\n
So, there you have it, I think. \u00a0 Is Pandora a yacht? \u00a0Hmm… Well she seems pretty yachty to me and besides, when I am close to a dock, she seems HUGE too.<\/p>\n
I guess that yachty, like beauty, is in the eyes of he beholder so I’ll have to ask you, dear reader, what you think.<\/p>\n
Is Pandora a boat or yacht?<\/p>\n
Before you blurt out your answer, this is Pandora, lest your memory is short.\u00a0 I rest my case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Brenda and I have progressed over the years from our humble beginnings sailing a 20′ Cape Cod catboat to larger vessels \u00a0I have often wondered when or should I say IF, we have\u00a0made the transition from boating to the blue blazer yachting set. Some say that the definition of a yacht is “any boat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4773,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions\/4773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/5-27-15a-007.jpg\")
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