WordNet
n. a race between crews of people in yachts [syn: sailing-race]
Usage examples of "yacht race".
Dick and Dorothea were watching the kettle, and Mrs Barrable was in the cabin, putting some paint-brushes to soak, when the noise of water creaming under the forefoot of a boat made them look out just in time to get a second view of the yacht race, as the five little racers sailed by.
His second gig -- also for Scanlan's -- was the America's Cup yacht race at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1970.
My voice trailed away as I recalled something from a yacht race, years earlier.
Fifty years ago, she'd lost Castle Delia wagering on a yacht race.
Hell, this fog was thicker than ever and yet you could hear the sea pounding the coastline like it hadn't done since that disastrous week of the Fastnet yacht race some years ago.
Someone who'd attended the tenth high school reunion reported that he owned a pro hockey franchise in Canada and was planning to compete in the next America's Cup yacht race.
And in 1930, spectators at a yacht race in Port Phillip Bay, Australia, watched helplessly as a shark savaged nineteen-year-old Norman Clark.