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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
yachtsman
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also patron of swimmers and yachtsmen.
▪ For centuries a seaport - today the harbour is still a haven for yachtsmen, fishing boats and pleasure cruisers.
▪ Gordon lives in Rutherglen, is married and as a hobby, is a keen yachtsman.
▪ He gathered in the tarpaulin as a yachtsman might a spinnaker and dumped it behind him before peering into the semi-darkness.
▪ Joe was still the novice sailor, though he now had covered more sea miles than many amateur yachtsmen.
▪ Olav was a keen ski jumper and an Olympic yachtsman.
▪ Which projection would you choose for a map to be used by a yachtsman sailing from Rio de Janeiro to Liverpool?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yachtsman

Yachtsman \Yachts"man\, n.; pl. Yachtsmen. One who owns or sails a yacht; a yachter.

Wiktionary
yachtsman

n. A man who sails a yacht.

WordNet
yachtsman

n. sails a yacht [syn: yachtswoman]

Usage examples of "yachtsman".

Hell, even that old fart Whipple had rushed off cuz he had a date with a yachtsman named Tyler D.

Innocent yachtsmen, caught doing their laundry late, found themselves backed against washateria walls, bracketed by spotlights, with microphones threatening their dental work.

I, yachtsman, charterer, small-time businessman, an escapee if you like into the lotus life of the Mediterranean, to know, or even to understand, the machinations of those far removed from the little Balearic island of Menorca?

Instead of heading sixty-nine degrees true through a narrow straight passage, as would the ferries and any sane yachtsman, she held eighteen degrees true north and went to what would be considered the wrong side of Cliff Island.

In some corner of the globe, Appleby vaguely understood, there was a brother, Adrian Brockbank, who had also distinguished himself-it seemed as a lone yachtsman.

Or an independently wealthy yachtsman like that rugged, self-impressed Italian winemaker Stefano Renaldo with whom she'd sailed the world before marrying Hood.

If a fisherman or a yachtsman got into trouble, Invincible always seemed to be there, often roller-coastering across thirty-foot seas with her crewmen held in place with ropes and safety belts - but there and ready to do the job with a red-haired chief at the wheel, an unlit briar pipe in his teeth.

Ernesto and Jose are accomplished soccer players, skillful rock climbers, and as luck would have it, experienced yachtsmen.

The yachtsmen sailed the dragon ship into a harbor near the tip of Long Island, finding in doing so that the ship was extremely seaworthy.

It is frequently used by naval gigs which call there for officers, throwing wakes which aggravate the yachtsmen who also anchor there, or moor their craft to the docks.

Some papers printed a dramatic eyewitness story by the yachtsmen, telling how the sub had been literally ripped from end to end by the blast.

He didn't like wealthy yachtsmen who drank too much at night-time and were bleary-eyed, bloodshot and tousle-haired at the following crack of dawn.

He didn't like wealthy effete yachtsmen who wore red silk dragon Chinese dressing-gowns with a Paisley scarf to match tied negligently round the neck.

The yachtsmen and the Emperor shouted instructions, while Drew and Troy Lee watched their friend trying not to drown.