The word "yachts" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a large, usually expensive motor or sail boat. For example, "The wealthy businessman owned several luxurious yachts."
No one's getting rid of jets or yachts.
Without its fishing boats, West Mersea harbour would have only rich people's yachts.
Britain's booming rich have a taste for many things: fine wines, yachts, country mansions – but this season's must-have accessory is a political party.
A half hour away from where I am writing this, a new residential estate is up for sale, offering seaview flats alongside access to private jets and yachts.
The island is saturated with sailing culture, from the Maltese Falcon (one of the biggest sailing yachts in the world) at anchor in Falmouth harbour and the regular regattas to the yacht crews filling the bars.
It's a jaunt so lavish as to be almost comic – where big money developers invite town hall executives for secret discussions aboard private yachts, and whose regulars boast that they get through more champagne than all the liggers at the film festival.
All of these can be arranged by the Pierhouse Hotel - it has its own moorings for yachts.
He sees the crowds start to gather and the yachts pull into shore.
The panorama of the town and surrounding hills is gorgeous as you head up the estuary, slipping between the rows of moored yachts and dodging the flocks of sailing dinghies.
In paying tribute to the prosperity of the 80s he appealed to the right, as he also did, actually, when he said he wanted to lift the little boats on the rising tide, and not just the yachts.
I didn't recognise any of them, but everyone seemed insanely rich: preppy, with faces like luxury yachts, like Martha's Vineyard in the summer, Waspy and at peace with the world, practically floating through the restaurant, whereas Michael was a big, angry, coiled-spring Jewish bear of a man.
