How to Use yachtsman in a Sentence

yachtsman

noun

• Looking like a yachtsman, Dean Spanos wore white pants and a blue shirt while surveying the grounds.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 July 2017
• This year, the group beheaded a 70-year-old German yachtsman.
  — Felipe Villamor, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• Waning are the days of billowing spinnakers and yachtsmen in striped ties and blue blazers.
  — Chris Jones, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2017
• There was a ladder and a mooring to allow local yachtsmen to drop off their passengers on the boat for a meal or a drink.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• On Tuesday, the fears of every yachtsman came true, as race organizers announced that a crew member of one of the boats was presumed lost at sea.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• The exclusive location was discovered more than 35 years ago when a yachtsman, caught in a storm off the coast of Crete, sheltered in this heavenly cove.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2022
• The client, who is an experienced yachtsman, also opted for a joystick coupled to the transmissions, as well as bow and stern thrusters.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 May 2022
• The project then restarted in earnest in 2016, when it was rediscovered by serial yachtsman Vural Ak.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2021
• The patch was discovered in 1997 by Charles Moore, a yachtsman who had sailed through a mishmash of floating plastic bottles and other debris on his way home to Los Angeles.
  — Jonathan Alcorn, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2018
• These new sailors aren’t in the mold of American legend Dennis Conner: expert yachtsmen with physiques more suited to boardrooms than locker rooms....
  — Matthew Futterman, WSJ, 15 May 2017
• Those volunteers — such as Adam Belshe, a 51-year-old surfer and yachtsman from Plantation — happily promote the sport by giving free clinics in their area.
  — Harvey Fialkov, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2017
• The home was a base of operations for the original William Ziegler, known as a yachtsman and for organizing Arctic expeditions.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 7 Dec. 2021
• The first hull was built for discerning yachtsman John Haurum, who has a passion for sailing both recreationally and in competition.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 29 June 2022
• Like his father, Pete became a yachtsman, with a special enthusiasm for ocean sailing.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2021
• The custom vessel was built for an experienced yachtsman, who has charted virtually every Feadship available over the past few years.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2021
• Alex was educated in Dresden and married to Edith Seidel in 1945.Alex was a talented photographer and yachtsman.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• It was ingrained in the language: seaman, helmsman, fisherman, longshoreman, yachtsman.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2018
• Belying the stereotype of patrician yachtsmen with jaunty caps swilling drinks and getting tan, ocean sailing can be extraordinarily dangerous.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• Lorillard was an adrenaline junkie avant la lettre: competitive racehorse breeder, yachtsman, gambler, and even amateur archaeologist.
  — Ash Carter, Town & Country, 1 Jan. 2012

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024