Pl. -men. [f. gen. of YACHT sb. + MAN sb.1] A man who owns, manages, or sails in a yacht; a man addicted to yachting.
1862. Lond. Rev., 16 Aug., 138. It … requires a combination of those attributes which distinguish the modern Briton to make a great racing-man or a genuine yachtsman.
1868. Trollope’s Brit. Sports, 219. Nine out of ten yachtsmen build or buy their vessels in the dark.
Hence Yachtsmanship, the practice or skill of a yachtsman.
1862. Vanderdecken (title), The Yacht Sailor; a treatise on Practical Yachtsmanship.
1886. St. James’s Gaz., 8 Sept., 4/2. The partisans of English yachtsmanship.
So Yachtswoman.
1888. Athenæum, 1 Sept., 294/1. It [the sea eagle] is much exposed to the attacks of marauding yachtsmen and yachtswomen.
1906. Daily Tel., 29 Jan., 9/6. Mrs. Susan Parker, a well-known American yachtswoman.
