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Synonyms for yachter

• able-bodied sailor
• circumnavigator
• midshipman/woman

Définition of yachter

• As in sailor : noun person who travels by sea
• As in jack : noun sailor

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The definition of yachter in the dictionary is a person who sails in a yacht.

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noun as in pleasure boat

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• cabin cruiser
• sailing boat

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As City News explained it, the bribes were paid not only in cash but through rugs, antiques, furniture, yacht club fees, boat repairs and more.

In Ashburn, Snyder is always lurking in spirit, even if he is on his 305-foot yacht somewhere in the Aegean.

Driving across country in a gigantic land yacht—with its crushed-velour seats and faux wood siding—was more practical than a two-door hot rod.

Host Jason Moore chats with experts who share tips harvested from their real-life experiences, such as a couple who paid off their $70,000 debt to travel full time and a woman who left her corporate job to work on a yacht.

Until Thursday, when federal agents escorted him off a 150-foot yacht moored in Long Island Sound, the word often used to describe Steve Bannon was “irrelevant.”

Instead the money allegedly was spent on luxury cars and a yacht club membership, among other things.

Loeb owns a $100 million penthouse on Central Park West and a $50 million yacht.

Solaire has set up charging capabilities at a project it built at a yacht club in Massachusetts, for example.

On my way back into town, I walked by the fortress of tents surrounding the harbor, readying for the yacht show.

Newly-minted Londoner, Lindsay Lohan, is currently chilling out on a yacht in Italy.

I heard her say to one of the servants once that my father had been lost on a yacht, and that he was oh, ever such a handsome man.

He owned a 54-ton yacht named the Opal, and attributed the wonderful health he enjoyed to his numerous sea voyages.

Another yacht had started from the old boathouse at about the time our friends and their new-fangled craft got under way.

Caermarthen ordered out his wonderful yacht, and hastened to complain to the King, who was then at Loo.

The yacht had long turned the head of the island and was beating down alongshore in the eastern bay.

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noun as in vehicle for water travel

noun as in a boat propelled with wind by sailcloth

• gaff-rigged sailboat
• wooden boat

noun as in boat

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Definitions for yachter yachter, this dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word yachter ., did you actually mean yesteryear , wiktionary rate this definition: 5.0 / 1 vote.

yachter noun

A person who sails in yachts.

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Yachter noun

one engaged in sailing a jacht

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The numerical value of yachter in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

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The numerical value of yachter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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What does the noun yacht mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun yacht . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

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Earliest known use

The earliest known use of the noun yacht is in the late 1500s.

OED's earliest evidence for yacht is from before 1584, in the writing of S. Borough.

yacht is a borrowing from Dutch.

Etymons: Dutch jaght(e .

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yacht, n. was first published in 1921; not yet revised.

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Lawsuit: Student with Down Syndrome Subjected to Abuse in Kansas School

An employee of a rural Kansas school district repeatedly shoved a teenager with Down syndrome into a utility closet, hit the boy and once photographed him locked in a cage used to store athletic equipment, a lawsuit claims.

The suit filed Friday in federal court said the paraprofessional assigned to the 15-year-old sent the photo to staff in the Kaw Valley district, comparing the teen to an animal and “making light of his serious, demeaning and discriminatory conduct.”

The teen’s parents alleged in the suit that the paraprofessional did not have a key to the cage and had to enlist help from other district staff to open the door and release their son, who is identified in the complaint only by his initials. The suit, which includes the photo, said it was not clear how long the teen was locked in the cage.

The lawsuit names the paraprofessional, other special education staff and the district, which enrolls around 1,100 and is based in St. Marys, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northwest of Topeka.

No attorneys are listed for the district in online court records and phone messages and emails left with district staff were not immediately returned.

The suit said the teen’s placement in the closet and cage stemmed from “no behaviors whatsoever, or for minor behaviors” that stemmed from his disability.

The paraprofessional also is accused in the suit of yelling derogatory words within inches of the teen’s face on a daily basis and pulling and yanking the teen by the shirt collar around the school at least once a week.

At least once, the paraprofessional struck the teen in the neck and face, the suit said. The teen who speaks in short, abbreviated sentences, described the incident using the words “hit,” “closet” and the paraprofessional’s first name.

The suit said the paraprofessional also made the teen stay in soiled clothing for long periods and denied him food during lunchtime.

The suit said some staff expressed concerns to the special education teacher who oversaw the paraprofessional, as well as the district’s special education director. But the suit said neither of them intervened, even though there had been other complaints about the paraprofessional’s treatment of disabled students in the past.

The suit said the defendants described their treatment of the teen as “tough love” and “how you have to handle him.”

The suit said the director instructed subordinates not to report their concerns to the state child welfare agency. However, when the parents raised concerns, a district employee reported them to the agency, citing abuse and neglect concerns, the suit said.

No criminal charges are listed in online court records for the paraprofessional or any of the employees named in the suit. And no disciplinary actions are listed for staff in a state education department database.

The suit said the teen’s behavior deteriorated. The suit said he refuses to leave his home out of fear, quit using his words and increasingly punches himself in the head.

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THE Bayesian yacht search has been called off overnight after five bodies, including those said to be Mike Lynch and his teen daughter, were found.

Divers have been scouring the wreckage off the coast of Sicily for days, with one trapped body not yet recovered and another person still missing.

The search operation in Porticello, called off on Wednesday evening, will resume on Thursday, the head of Sicily's civil protection agency said.

The eight divers from across Italy have so far found five bodies inside the vessel - with one found late on Wednesday yet to be recovered.

Sicily’s civil protection chief Salvo Cocina initially told The Telegraph the first two bodies found belonged to British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, 59, and his daughter Hannah, 18.

The body of Canadian-Antiguan chef, Recaldo Thomas, was found in the open water soon after the disaster on Monday and a seventh person remains missing.

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• The bodies of  Mike Lynch  & his daughter Hannah, 18,  were believed to be recovered  from the sunken superyacht
•  Another two bodies were found in the search for the missing passengers
•   Lynch's shell-shocked wife  revealed how she was  awoken by a 'tilt'  as the yacht sank
•  The  captain of the Bayesian  broke his silence on the horror storm and was  quizzed by cops for over two hours
•  Experts believe the yacht's 'tallest mast in the world' may have contributed to the disaster after a  freak ‘Black Swan’ weather event struck
•  Pictures showed the  tiny raft that saved up to 15 people
•   Frantic text messages  from the survivors revealed the chaos

The ultra-luxurious yacht plunged beneath waves in the early hours of Monday after being hammered by a rare "Black Swan" waterspout - a freak twister-like event.

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Sleeping party guests and crew were suddenly awoken and forced to flee for their lives - with some 15 of the 22 onboard managing to escape.

Lynch's wife - Angela Bacares, 57 - was one of those who managed to escape in a tiny life raft as the vessel capsized and was dragged down in a storm.

Italian rescue crews launched a desperate three-day search - with hopes there could be a miracle for those trapped on board if they were surviving in air pockets.

The first two bodies found yesterday were discovered trapped by mattresses inside a cabin, reports La Repubblica.

Ambulances were seen driving away from the harbour after the remains were pulled up by divers.

Sicily civil protection director-general Cocina told The Telegraph after the bodies were found that two of them were Mr Lynch and Hannah.

He said: “On behalf of myself and my colleagues, I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the families of the victims and express our condolences to them at this difficult time.”

Around 50 emergency workers are still helping with the search.

The UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch has now opened up its own investigation into the sinking of the Bayesian.

Out of 12 passengers and 10 crew, 15 were rescued from the water including a one-year-old British girl and her mum .

The Italian coastguard vowed not to give up until it finds all of those feared dead inside the sunken yacht.

Captain of the doomed yacht James Cutfield, 51, was grilled by cops for over two hours after divers discovered the boat's keel was raised - a structural backbone of the boat which could have affected its stability during the storm.

Police , who have been interviewing survivors from the tragedy, questioned the captain for several hours about the disaster,  Giornale Di Sicilia  reported.

The desperate search will enter its fourth day on Thursday with footage this week showing firefighters, helicopters, police and divers scouring the sea.

Rescuers deployed an underwater drone robot to assist in the search mission with pictures showing divers operating it from a boat on the surface.

It can remain underwater for up to seven hours at a depth of 300m, recording helpful images and video.

Divers finally reached the "master cabin" late on Wednesday morning - possibly where  the captain stayed  - according to Italian outlet  Giornale Di Sicilia .

Later reports said they had made it to the area near the passenger cabins, where the coastguard believed the six tourists were trapped for several days.

Although the 184ft yacht is lying "practically intact" on its side at the bottom of the sea, rescuers have been struggling to get inside.

Some 164ft down, the rotating team of divers face a time crunch as they only have 10 minutes to search each time they go down.

Diver Marco Tilotta also said there was a "world of objects" including furniture and debris obstructing the narrow stairs in front of the cabins in the wreck.

Luca Cari, head of the local Fire Brigade, explained: "They can stay underwater for a maximum of 12 minutes, two of which are needed to go up and down.

"So the real time to be able to carry out the search is 10 minutes per dive."

Who is Mike Lynch?

FORMER billionaire entrepreneur Mike Lynch is believed found dead after a £14m luxury yacht capsized in a tornado off the coast of Sicily Monday morning.

The tech tycoon, dubbed "Britain's Bill Gates", was one of the 22 people sailing onboard the £166,000 a week vessel.

Lynch, 59, was a serial entrepreneur having founded and sold tech and software companies with one of his biggest being Autonomy Corporation.

He was also been involved in Invoke Capital and cybersecurity company Darktrace.

As well as being awarded an OBE for his services to enterprise in 2006.

Born in Ilford, Lynch had a firefighter father from County Cork and a nurse mother from County Tipperary.

Away from work, Mike was happily married to wife Angela Bacares and the pair had two children together.

Angela is among those who have been rescued on the superyacht.

In 2023, the Sunday Times rich list set the couple's value at £852m.

But Mike was extradited to the US on fraud charges back in 2023 with a judge setting his bail at £79m.

Just weeks ago, Lynch was acquitted of criminal charges by a jury in San Francisco after a 12-year legal battle over the $11bn sale of his firm, Autonomy, to Hewlett-Packard in 2011.

The doomed yacht, named Bayesian, is also said to be owned by the Lynch family.

The boat capsized at around 5am local time on Monday  when the mast was hit by the waterspout off the coast of Sicily during extreme weather , witnesses have said.

Torrential rain and wind battered much of the Porticello port in Palermo overnight on Sunday - striking the superyacht with swirling columns of air that formed waterspouts.

Witnesses claimed a twister snapped the 246ft boat mast - the world's second tallest - clean in half.

Others told Italian outlet Ansa that the anchor was down when the storm hit on Monday morning, causing the boat to lose its balance.

It comes as maritime experts said the yacht may have been sunk by a freak "Black Swan" waterspout which would have appeared without warning.

Matthew Schanck, chairman of the Maritime Search and Rescue Council, told The Times : "Looking at the extreme weather, if it was a waterspout, which it appears to be, it's what I would class as like a black swan event.

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"And if the waterspout ends up dumping a load of that water on board the vessel, that’s going to cause significant damage."

Extremely rare and unpredictable weather patterns that have severe impacts - like this waterspout - are known as "black swan events".

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Tech magnate missing after luxury superyacht sinks off Sicily in 'violent storm'

A British tech magnate and several other people are missing after a luxury superyacht sank near Sicily’s main city, Palermo, during a violent storm, Italian officials and sources familiar with the matter told CNBC . At least one person was killed.

Mike Lynch, who was regularly described in U.K. media as “Britain’s Bill Gates,” was not among those rescued, said the sources, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the situation. They added that Angela Bacares, Lynch’s wife, had been plucked from the waters off the Italian island.

Lynch was among six people who were unaccounted for, The Associated Press quoted Salvo Cocina of Sicily’s civil protection agency as saying. “They were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said. Cocina also confirmed that Bacares had survived.

Italy's coast guard said in a statement that the 184-foot sailboat, named the Bayesian, sank “due to a violent storm” off Palermo at around 5 a.m. local time (11 p.m. ET) with 22 people on board. Fifteen people were rescued, and six passengers were missing, it said.

American, British and Canadian citizens were among the missing, the statement said. The coast guard said in later statement that the ship’s cook had died. It did not give the cook's nationality.  

Karsten Borner, the captain of a ship that rescued the survivors, told reporters that there was a “strong hurricane gust, and we had to start the engine to keep the ship in an angled position,” according to Reuters.

He added that they had “watched the ship behind us not to touch them and we managed to keep the ship in position.” After the storm was over, he said, “we noticed that the ship behind us was gone.”

“Fifteen people inside. Four people were injured, three heavily injured, and we brought them to our ship, he said. “Then we communicated with the coast guard, and after some time, the coast guard came and later picked up injured people.”

One of the survivors, identified as Charlotte Emsley, 35, told the Italian news agency ANSA that she had momentarily lost hold of her 1-year-old daughter, Sofia, in the water but managed to retrieve her and hold her up over the waves until a lifeboat inflated and they were pulled to safety.

“I immediately hugged her again amid the fury of the waves. I held her tight, close to me, while the sea was stormy,” she said. “Many were screaming. Luckily, the lifeboat inflated, and 11 of us managed to get on it.”

The City Council of Bagheria said in a statement that a child of that age was being treated at a children’s hospital. It said that seven adults were taken to the emergency room but that “it seems that none are in serious conditions.” 

Lynch, 59, the missing tech entrepreneur, founded the enterprise software firm Autonomy and became the target of a protracted legal battle with Hewlett-Packard after the U.S. tech giant accused him of inflating the company’s value in an $11 billion sale. Extradited from Britain to the U.S. last year to stand trial, he was acquitted of fraud after a three-month trial.

Italy’s national fire department said in a statement that “divers, a motorboat and a helicopter” had been deployed to help with the search. The wreck was at a depth of around 165 feet, the statement said.  

Divers from the Sicilian city of Sassri and Naples, a city on the Italian mainland , were “arriving on site to search inside the sunken vessel,” it said. 

Built by Italian shipbuilder Perini in 2008, the U.K.-registered Bayesian has an aluminum hull and can carry 12 guests and a crew of up to 10, according to online specialist yacht sites. Online sites list the luxury vessel for charter for up to 195,000 euros (about $215,000) a week, the AP reported.

The boat left the Sicilian port of Milazzo on Wednesday and was last tracked east of Palermo on Sunday evening, with a navigation status of “at anchor,” according to the vessel tracking app Vesselfinder.

Fabio La Bianca, 40, took a picture of the boat at around 10 p.m. local time Sunday shortly after he closed his bar in nearby Santa Flavia. “Absurd tragedy tonight. I am lost for words,” he said Monday on Facebook.

Matteo Moschella is a London-based reporter for NBC News' Social Newsgathering team.

Henry Austin is a senior editor for NBC News Digital based in London.

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Local news | dnc live coverage: kamala harris invites voters to chart a ‘new way forward’, local news | second crane arrives at capsized lovebug yacht site, salvage expected to begin this week.

Aug. 20, 2024: A second crane barge, the 250-foot Columbia NY arrived on scene joining the Farrell 256 crane barge to attempt to recover the LoveBug, the 103-foot yacht that capsized at the mouth of the West River on July 27. (Jeffrey F. Bill/Staff photo)

The Columbia NY, a 250-foot crane barge with 140-foot boom, and the Thomas D Whitte, a coastal towing tug, arrived on Saturday, according to VesselFinder, a marine traffic site. Recovery efforts are expected to begin as early as Wednesday, according to Steven Newes,  senior vice president of Donjon Marine Co., the New Jersey-based firm contracted to salvage the LoveBug and deliver it to underwriters and its owner.

The tug boat’s arrival comes three weeks after the LoveBug overturned sailing south on the Chesapeake Bay from Annapolis. The yacht currently rests in about 10 to 12 feet of water on its starboard, or right, side between Beverly Beach and Shady Side.

The Farrell 256, a 200-foot crane barge with a 120-foot boom, and the Meagan Ann, a coastal towing tug, were the first vessels to arrive last week. The Farrell 256 will be used to rig the LoveBug with slings, Newes said last week. The Columbia NY will then roll and lift it to an upright position. Water inside the yacht will need to be pumped out.

LOVEBUG update Wednesday | PHOTOS

The Italian-built yacht, which could be chartered at a weekly rate ranging from $110,000 to $125,000 , was not operating as a charter when it overturned, Hunter Dortenzo, spokesperson for the Maryland Natural Resources Police, said earlier this month. Following a mayday call, the Coast Guard found five people safe when they arrived.

Both the Natural Resources Police and the National Transportation Safety Board are conducting separate investigations. When the results will be released is unclear, Dortenzo said. The NTSB’s investigation is underway, according to Keith Holloway, a spokesperson for the board.

In the days after the LoveBug capsized, a slight oil sheen was visible on the water around the vessel. Two oil booms were placed around the yacht. No additional pollution has been reported, Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher Bokum said on Aug. 9.

Capital Gazette reporter Natalie Jones contributed to this article. 

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