Yacht

A yacht was originally defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used to convey important persons. In later parlance, the definition came to mean any vessel, other than a dinghy, propelled by sail, power or both and used for pleasure cruising and/or yacht racing. A sailing yacht can vary in overall length (LOA in yachting parlance) from about 6 m (20 feet) to well over 30 m (100 feet) or more. However, most privately owned yachts fall on the range of about 7 m to 14 m (about 23-46 ft) - cost of building and keeping a yacht raises skyhigh when the boat gets bigger. Monohull yachts are typically fitted with a fixed or adjustable keel below the waterline to counterbalance the overturning force of wind on the vessel's sails. By contrast, Multihull yachts (a catamaran is an example of this type of vessel) use two or more hull (watercraft)s widely separated from each other to provide a stable base that resists overturning. Until 1950s almost all yachts were made of boards of wood (steel was also used for bigger yachts) but nowadays there is a much wider range of materials. Most common is fibreglass, but also steel, aluminium and even ferrocement are used. Wood is still used (traditional board based methods as well as modern technologies based on plywood, veneers and epoxy-glues etc ), but wood is mostly used when building invidual boats, less often in industrial boat building. Modern yachts have efficient sail-plans that allow them to sail into the wind. This capability is the result of a sail plan and hull design (typically a sloop rig) that utilizes Bernoulli's principle to generate Lift (force). The motive force being the wind, sailing is more economical and environmentally friendly than any other means of propulsion. Motor yachts depend upon mechanical means for propulsion, typically an internal combustion engine that burns fossil fuels. These are more expensive to operate than sailing vessels due to fuel costs and the large engines typically used. A more economical hybrid type of vessel is a motor sailing yacht that can use either sail or motor propulsion (or both) as conditions dictate. Modern yachts are descendants of working vessels used for fishing and commerce. Famous examples of these types of vessels are fishing schooners such as ''Bluenose'' and square rigged tea clippers of the 19th century such as ''Flying Cloud''. Tall ships are the modern descendants of the tradition of these commercial vessels. Yachting for pleasure was formerly the province of the wealthy due to expense and the manpower required (because the boats were big), but today has become the pastime of many worldwide. King Charles II of England is mentioned as enjoying the sport in the diaries of Samuel Pepys. Popular yachting spots: *San Francisco Bay, California *Newport Beach, California *Newport, Rhode Island *Cowes, Isle of Wight *Fremantle, Western Australia, Western Australia *Hamble, Hampshire, England *Tollesbury, Essex, England *West Coast of Scotland of Scotland *Auckland, New Zealand *Hong Kong ==See also== *catamaran *dinghy sailing *List of motor yachts by length *marina *sailing ship *yacht racing *yachting Boat types Sailboat types Sailing

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Hola! This is Yacht's userpage. Yacht is a college student from China, People's Republic of. He is gay, and he's also a parttime programmer mainly focusing on writing the ASP.NET with Visual Basic .NET language. His blog is here: [http://mywallop.com/public.aspx?id=3816736&ty=per yacht away]. He speaks Cantonese (linguistics) and Mandarin (linguistics) as his first languages. He can speak some English as his first foreign language. He is also interested in Spanish language, Portuguese language, Japanese language and Dutch language. He is a middle-left-lean liberalist. He is interested in gay-rights, guys, linguas, human rights, historia, computer and Internet. So it's a bit weird that he is majoring in Mathematics. He is a fan of Microsoft, he likes most of, if not all, its products. But he is not very into commercialization. He is now hopeless hooked by Will & Grace, especially by Sean Hayes, one of his favorite actors. You may like to get a closer look at him [http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1802343927&cf=pg&photoid=458683&intl=us here]. The reason he's working here is that he feels this project is wonderful. And for the first time, he feels that he's belonging to a community he likes, and shares things he knows with others, and learns things from others. He's very surprised because he finds that he's no longer alone, since there are so many friendly GLBT people around him, and he is becoming more and more proud of his sexual orientation after getting the chances to reach the amazing queer culture. Pages that he's watching include: *Homosexuality in China *List of Taiwan-related topics *List of China-related topics *List of gay-related topics *List of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films == Page//P�gina == *User:Yacht/Pages == Quote == ''Once I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, tradition,
'' ''Yet now of all that city I remember only a man I casually met there who detained me for love of me,
'' ''Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me,
'' ''I remember I saw only that man who passionately clung to me,
'' ''Again we wander, we love, we separate again,
'' ''Again he holds me by the hand, I must not go,
'' ''I see him close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.''

--Walt Whitman, ''Once I pass'd through a populous city''

''It's you straights who have all the special rights. You straights have the special right to marry. You straights have the special right to be in the military, go out on a date with the person you love, talk about it the next day, and not get kicked out for it. You straights have the special right not to be prevented from visiting your loved one in the hospital.... To say that gays and lesbians are asking for special rights is the height of lunacy.''

--Elijah Elders

''Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?''

--James Baldwin

''Mom, uh, I have something I want to say to you. I've kept this from you for a long time and that's wrong, because it makes it seems like I'm ashamed of something I'm not ashamed of. I want you to know who I am because I'm proud of who I am. Mom,..., I'm gay.''

--Jack, from ''Will & Grace'' Season II

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Archive: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Yacht&oldid=6155437 20040926-6155437] == Re:happy happy happy! == I can't even read most of it, let alone understand it. This guy is a mystery. He's been showing up at San Francisco Chinatown chanting "Happy, Happy, Happy" for at least the past 30 years. It's actually quite funny seeing him in person, just not in the way he intended. He's also one of the nuts who frequent Sproul Plaza here in Berkeley. --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 21:10, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC) == Wikipedia:China-related topics notice board == Come and join us at Wikipedia:China-related topics notice board? --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 02:08, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "" template into their user page, but there are other options at Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace#Licensing Templates. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page: :Option 1 :I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below: : OR :Option 2 :I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below: : Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "" with "". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. ''Please let me know'' what you think at my User talk:Ram-Man. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- User:Ram-Man ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new comment]| User talk:Ram-Man :The CC-by-sa is a copyleft license like the GFDL, as you suspected when you posted the comment on my user page, so yes, the CC-by-sa is the license that you would want to use for multi-licensing. And again, I am asking every single user to multi-license, so I need you too! See the progress at the User:Rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project. User:Ram-Man – User:Ram-Man ^{([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new comment]) (User talk:Ram-Man)} 14:05, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC) ::The ''Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Dual License'' and the ''Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Dual License'' are incompatible licenses that differ purely on whether or not the contributions can be used commercially. The non-commercial license does not allow you to make money off of whatever is licensed under it. The GFDL is most similar to the CC-by-sa, which allows commercial usage. Of course all of these are copylefted, so even if someone tries to make some money off of it, they must share whatever it is that they are selling for free, that is you are always free to copy it under the terms of the license. So the CC-by-sa and GFDL permit a book form that is sold, say, to cover the costs of running Wkipedia. The CC-by-nc-sa does not allow the contributions to be used commercially. 20:29, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC) == Re:zh-cn and zh-tw == People seem to be changing all instances of those to just zh:. I havent seen the discussion anywhere on en. it could be on zh. --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 09:16, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Dragostea Din Tei == what about moving it out of the gay anthem for consistency? --User:Yacht (User talk:Yacht) 10:23, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC) :You don't need my permission. - User:KeithTyler User_talk:KeithTyler [WP:AMA] 19:42, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC) == sean hayes == wooddoo from the chinese wikipedia. hayes should be pronounced as [heiz] so 黑斯 is much more precise than 海斯. you might wanna consider changing it.--User:Wooddoo-eng 10:36, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC) :hehe:) it's just a technical question. the reason i posted it was that i thought sean hayes is not already an established name in china like 费雯丽 for vivien leigh when actually it should've been 薇薇安�李。because people are used to 费雯丽. and i thought 黑斯 looks no less beautiful than 海斯, changing it won't do him any harm, plus his name gets to be more precise. forgive me for sticking to transliteration :) i have a thing for precision-___- you might call that a bad habit or something. it's like charlize theron is translated in the mainland as 查理兹 but ch here is pronounced as [sh] so 莎莉兹 (in taiwan) is more appropriate and feminine so when i wrote her article in the chinese wikipedia i didn't use 查理兹 at all because it makes me feel very uncomfortable.--User:Wooddoo-eng 16:38, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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