[TRY]

Can anyone of you give me a logical or an illogical explanation why a yacht needs to have a bar?
Is it for visual lifestyle, a design necessity or due to "clients'" habits?

Whatever floats and is over a certain length has this "pub"-infrastructure!

With 2 or 3 saloons, private study and deck-seating on all floors, with sufficient uniformed personnel onboard, why have a bar?

So far I have rarely come accross a nicely integrated, aesthetically pleasing or gracious counterconfused:

[KCook]

Fair question TRY. At least on the smaller yachts the bar is often a bit of a joke, just taking up space. Then there are the big floating disco palaces

Kelly Cook

[tantetruus]

i guess it's all about being entertained, a meetingpoint for guests, just the way it works in a hotel; you meet at the bar, drink some, talk a bit.

It's all part of the charter culture

[YachtForums]

Boats need bars, because boats break.

[Kevin]

Why a bar?

Why not!

[TRY]

Originally Posted by YachtForums

Boats need bars, because boats break.

Thanks Carl,

I'll take this as a jolly reply, even with the boat AOG you can still ask the head-stu to get you a G&T on the sundeck, can't you?

If it would make a nicely integrated feature, I'll buy that as a design feature.
Please step in Lars!

But then, do you have a pub in your salon? Would you, as a millionaire - which is at least what it takes to sail on these toys - walk up to the bar to get a beer? Come on, be serious guys!

[AMG]

A superyacht should of course not have a bar. You have a crew that take care of drinks or whatever, when and where you want it. But sometimes it can be nice with bar seating, like in a lobby or on a flybridge. I can also think of having some kind of breakfast bar on an aft deck. But I wouldn´t like to have bars on my own yacht, regardless the size...

[Codger]

I would rather prefer strategically placed un-obtrusive cabinets properly stocked with a good bottle or three of scotch, water and a glass or two. For medicinal purposes only, you understand. It becomes increasingly important to remain properly hydrated as one gets on in years.

[KCook]

Good one Codger

[TRY]

A yacht has a bar because that is where the "interior crew" members can stand, half hidden, out of the guests' way and on hand to perform their duties.

The answer came out of an extensive survey over the time this thread has been going!

[chiefengineer00]

Where else would yacht brokers make deals at the boat shows

[Arniev]

The bar is a convergence zone ... where one can obtain alcohol for the purpose of medical research.

[cognac]

I couldn't have said it better!

Yes, on smaller boats it is quiet hard to organise a party on board. On bigger yachts, I never saw a yacht without a bar, it's all part of the game. Special people with special backgrounds always need a bar, champagn, caviar, big cigars, etc... that's life.

Greetings, Johan Bostyn.

[catmando]

Sailors drink.