yachties

We want to sail to a faraway place where we won't be tourists or "yachties."

Reid Stowe & Soanya Ahmad: Setting Sail From NYC For Guyana Reid Stowe 2011

Many yacht owners, called "cruisers" or "yachties," are retirees who have sold their belongings to fund their travel and live on a budget.

Pirate Attacks Force Leisure Sailors to Change Course Tamara Audi 2011

Although that meant the water was much less crowded, it also meant that the yachties who would normally have been out there were gathered around the BBQ having a few drinks and watching as we loaded up the boat.

True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010

They form an enchanting, if slightly twee, setting, where holidaying couples and yachties potter from taverna to taverna to ponder whose bream might be freshest, which rabbit stifado the more traditional.

Empty beaches and great deals in Greece 2010

Naturally, whenever we came back to the club, yachties on the beach would melt away into the foliage or to their cars.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Naturally, whenever we came back to the club, yachties on the beach would melt away into the foliage or to their cars.

[size matters] when you're flying 2009

If anyone takes any notice, that is - yachties are (generally) sensible people.

Archive 2005-06-05 Laban 2005

If anyone takes any notice, that is - yachties are (generally) sensible people.

Light Blogging ... Laban 2005

The first couple of bars looked too quiet for fun, catering to the yachties who moored in the cesspool long enough to take on provisions -- and perhaps avail themselves of the Darkside's cheap women and expensive drugs.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2003

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.

Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002