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YachtingYachting is a noncommercial boating activity. It may be racing sailing boats, cruising to distant shores, or day-sailing along a coast. Racing yachting as a sport Whilst sailing's invention is prehistoric, racing sailing boats is believed to have started YachtA 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 r Yacht racingYacht racing can be broadly divided into two types offshore racing and harbour (or 'round the cans') racing. Offshore Racing Offshore racing is for large monohull or multihull vessels and generally involves a fleet of yachts racing over a course that take Yachting at the 1984 Summer OlympicsMedal winners in the traditional yachting events were: International Finn Gold: Russell Coutts New Zealand Silver: John Bertrand United States Bronze: Terry Neilsen Canada International Flying Dutchman Gold: Jonathan McKee/Carl Buchan United States Silver Yachting at the 1980 Summer OlympicsMedal winners were: Soling : Gold Poul Jensen, Valdemar Bandolowski and Erik Hansen ( Denmark); Silver B. Budnikov, N. Poliakov and A. Budnikov ( USSR): Bronze A. Boudouris, A. Gavrilis and A. Rapanakis ( Greece) Flying Dutchman : Gold Alesandro Abascal a Yacht clubA yacht club is a club ostensibly for the owners of yachts but more generally serving as a social club. Yacht clubs are often associated with a particular marina or port. List of well-known yacht clubs Royal Brighton Yacht Club Ocean Racing Club of Victor Yacht people Yacht Octopus