"Ahoi, Summer time!" Yachting Etiquette.

Life has changed. Besides sailing yachts, motor yachts became also very common nowadays. But still Sailing yachts are more comfortable, reliable in navigability and glamour. However the price is high. Not many people can allow themselves such a purchase. And here is a paradox: a man, who purchased a yacht for a lot of money considers he can do whatever he wants on the yacht. But! Yacht is a water type of transport and yachting submits to all navigation laws. All of rules, norm of behavior and etiquette spread straightly at any ship, weather it's small or huge!

So, take off your shoes when you entered a yacht. This is one of the simplest rules - independently if it's your yacht or somebody's else. Certainly, a great deal is projected from an ordinary good breeding. People take off there shoes when they enter somebodies apartment from the street in many countries. Even the English Queen Elisabeth unshoes when she visits a yacht. However, barefoot walking on a yacht is also not acceptable: first - it's not hygienic, second it's slippery on the main decks and it's also possible to wound yourself in bottlenecks. Owners walk in the special footwear on a yacht, and guests can walk in white socks or slippers. However the special footwear is also recommended for guests (socks and slippers also do not save from sliding).

Do not create inconvenience for another boat. It's a rule. However not many remember it. You can see often - someone decided to show himself, or a yacht is more powerful, or just to impress girls on the beach, in the water or on a slowly sailing powerboat. To sail alongside at a high speed is not only disrespectful, but sometimes it also creates dangerous situations. A collision is the worst case, but even if the risk of collision is absent, nobody has a right to be up to everything, that comes into his head, nearby other ships. The yacht can be damaged by a heavy wave when berthed at or while alongside any quay. Swimming adults and children are also not saved from strikes against the walls and stones. And simply the mood of people who are on a nearby yacht can be spoiled, if because of the heavy rolling wine was poured out on expensive carpets or at the clothes of beloved girl...

Yachting clothes and footwear. It is customary to wear white on a yacht - sun, sea, cleanness. Clothes and footwear must be specialized. In other words, clothes must be convenient, comfortable, not getting wet, but if it got wet, it should get dry quickly. Clothes should protect you against the wind and moisture in the evening. To go in a trip is like on a war. Shoes  should also be specialized. It is called topsider. It is comfortable, made of a natural leather as a rule, treated in a  special way and is on a special non-sliding sole. A street footwear is changed to the yacht shoes, which are worn only on a yacht. All of guest shoes are put in a special teak locker, packed in separate bags first.

It is not worth to wear a business suit on a yacht. Certainly, it is beautiful. But practice shows different, and it's  uncomfortable in it. It's a rule – when you came on a yacht - change your clothes, take off your suit and shoes, put on   good expensive yacht clothes which both in a yacht-club and in a restaurant will look effective, everybody will understand that this is an owner of a yacht. The whole industry is working in this direction today.

It must be much supplies aboard. Water and clean linen supplies has to be enough for the period of all trip. Always clean towels, ironed linen. Food-supply naturally has to be sufficient too, but the main is water and linen. Experienced  captains have a saying: “If you are going at sea for a day – take supplies for a week, if for a week - take for a month”.

Woman on a yacht. Is it possible to imagine a yacht without women? The phrase is composed by itself: sea, yachts, girls... Girls like to come to a yacht-club in skirts and high heels. Then problems begin here. The heels of expensive fancy shoes stick in the holes of moorages - footwear is spoiled, the mood is spoiled therefor. Skirts ride up at any gust of the wind and so on.
It is customary for women to wear trousers on a yacht, these can be breeches or shorts also, if the shape allows. Footwear should be of the yachting type. The heels of even exquisite shoes will necessarily spoil very expensive teak coating of rooms and decks. The personal hygiene is always a trouble in the long trip. A woman troubles a team, and she is troubled with circumstances. The water is always husbanded during the sailing. If you are used to take a shower three times a days, sorry, you can't allowed this luxury here. Especially if a trip is enduring. If you washed your stuff, where would you dry it? Certainly not on the main deck. Can you imagine, once we saw drying woman pants streaming in the wind on the deck of an expensive yacht.

Women endure rolling worse, the bad mood follows therefore. But! Respectful attitude to a woman is the first rule on a shipboard. Therefore, if a woman was taken to a yacht, she should imagine what is waiting for her, and also necessarily submit to all the laws accepted for a trip.

Limitations. Yacht is a limited closed world. It's necessary to accept many things or to limit yourself. You have to be ready for this. It is not worth to take your friends in a trip with whom you can have conflict relations, they worsen there. Especially in complicate trip and climatic conditions. It is better to limit the trip with an unfamiliar company on your yacht in wild places with fishing, grill and women up to 2 days. Buying trophies and souvenirs, it's also necessary to check whether fishing is allowed in the district of your sailing, whether coral extraction is not forbidden, and if it is allowed to take out of the country antiques found under the water. You can depart in a long trip with tested people. Life is cyclic in the long trip. Your life rhythm can not coincide with a rhythm of other people on a yacht. When you are sleeping, others can make noise and have a party at the deck. You are sleeping, and the situation on the water does not submit you. Therefore there is another and the most important rule.

The captain is always right. As they say: “Who did not sail at the sea, that did not pray God”. As soon as a yacht was put out to the blue water, the most important man becomes not the owner, but the captain. Yes, the captain and the crew have to be unnoticeable on a ship, not to hinder owners and guests. However, it depends on him how safe and successful will be the trip. It is necessary to remember that you are associating not with a captain, but with the nature, with the circumstances of insuperable force.

The captain responds for the passengers at any time of the day. There are situations when you are powerless. But the captain knows better than you what should be done in such situations. The captain is not a servant. One needs to listen to him and he can't be told “no” on a ship.

There are many rules of behavior for yachtsmen on water, but very important rule is to help to the one who got into trouble. There are no grades here, everybody is equal. You helped somebody today and somebody will help you tomorrow. Remember that a mutual help and inviolability of the private life is the foundation of a yacht etiquette.

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