vbl. sb. [f. YACHT sb. or v. + -ING1.] The action, practice, or amusement of cruising in a yacht; the art of navigating a yacht.
1836. Marryat, Three Cutters, i. Of all amusements, give me yachting.
1874. Burnand, My Time, xxix. 279. He … never missed a season’s yachting with them.
attrib. 1850. Ogilvie, s.v. A yachting voyage.
1868. A. K. H. Boyd, Less. Mid. Age, 327. We had a pleasant yachting excursion.
1884. E. L. Bynner, in Harper’s Mag., Aug., 465/1. The two friend were invited to a yachting party down the harbor.
1887. Times, 27 Aug., 9/3. A sad yachting disaster occurred at Iffracombe yesterday afternoon, resulting it is feared in the loss of from 12 to 15 lives.
So Yachting ppl. a., that sails in a yacht; addicted to yachting.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxxix. Yachting men from Southampton.
1862. Lond. Rev., 16 Aug., 138. The yachting world is very variously composed.
