Sailing enthusiast, informally

Usage examples of yachtie.

Wind sounded a bit yachtie, she thought, but it was a nice name for a road, and appropriate, as the owners of the mansions she drove past no doubt also owned major yachts.

He was a tall, loose-limbed man with a boyish, unlined face and an affection for yachtie leisure gear from the expensive end of the market.

They sped around fleeing yachties, dodged the Coast Guard cutter that had positioned itself to keep back curious tourists, shot past the two big lifeboats that looked like fat waterborne grubs and that were carrying the multinational crew of the tanker to safety.

Apparently the couple did all the usual things that the yachties do when they sail in and out of Las Palmas--repairs, food, and like that.

Apparently the couple did all the usual things that the yachties do when they sail in and out of Las Palmas-repairs, food, and like that.

Besides being the site of boutiques, shell shops, and an immensely popular cookie store, the Wharf was the location of the Black Pearl, the Candy Store, and the Raw Bar, watery holes where hundreds of yachties, groupies, and tourists gravitated each day to mill inside and out, sipping sundowners.

True, there were extra street cleaners sweeping up, and the few tradespeople and yachties that she did see looked bleary-eyed and sullen.

They sped around fleeing yachties, dodged the Coast Guard cutter that had positioned itself to keep back curious tourists, shot past the two big lifeboats that looked like fat waterborne grubs and that were carrying the multinational crew of the tanker to safety.