Yacht Etiquette – Life-Skills for sailors
Yacht Etiquette… or what your mother would have taught you – if you had grown up on a boat… There is no great mystery to yacht etiquette – like all sailing matters it is essentially common sense – plus respect for boat and skipper. Many people come to sailing via corporate events or sailing school courses which set a poor example in terms of the care and respect shown to the vessel. A privately owned vessel is someone’s pride and joy – things will go better if you treat it accordingly. An excellent mind-set is to think of the yacht you are joining as being someone’s home – you wouldn’t enter without knocking and you wouldn’t slam doors – exactly the same on a yacht. Arriving Be on time, no…