No.
But…I just traded for a smaller yacht.
Regarding small yachts, you might as well ask why people go camping or backpacking. Being outdoors, in the midst of nature, appreciating beautiful scenery is worth a little less comfort in sleeping and other arrangements. And food doesn’t have to be any worse than at home. I’ve spent lots of time on overnight trips on boats and research vessels, and it’s no big deal.
Regarding mega-yachts, you might as well ask why people go on cruises. While I haven’t been on one, I am pretty sure the comfort level isn’t going to be much less than a luxury beach resort.
long, hard, full of sea men?
Without yachts, we’d have to find another name for yacht rock. Or get rid of it entirely.
When somebody (Elmer Fudd?) mentions a yacht, why are people automatically talking about $30 million or even $5 million boats (which admittedly are nice, especially if you plan to live on one for an extended tour). Are houses “an expensive toy for the super-rich”? Because a normal yacht that normal people buy costs a lot less than your apartment, maybe even less than some posters’ cars. Believe it or not, some people simply enjoy sailing (and surfing, and diving, or other water sports and activities that require gear).
It was from a cartoon released in 1955 (Hare Brush). That predates me by a bit, but was the American economy at that time strong enough to make any sort of boat ownership common? Rowboats fitted with outboard motors for bass fishin’, sure, but personal transatlantic-capable vessels? Seems like a pretty expensive toy for the time.
May I repeat myself?
Joke or no joke, by me or by Elmer J. Fudd, nobody has explained what is so good about Throat-wobbler Mangroves. I don’t get it, fine. Please explain. Just saying “some people like them” is not an explanation nor is it going to convince the ones that don’t.
Only Treppenwitz said there is nothing there to explain, because yachts are no fun at all. Thank you for that.
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Sounds pretty nice to me, nothing at all like the dismal personal watercraft described in the OP, but it is ultimately a matter of what you like. Also: crazy starry night skies, all the fishing you could want to do, access to remote beaches & uninhabited islands, the feeling of being just about as free as is possible in this age.
Do you expect anyone to convince you that going out on a boat is fun? If you care enough to find out for yourself, arrange with a nearby yacht club or boat-owning friend to take a short trip some weekend, and then you’ll know for sure. If you can’t be bothered to try it, it’s a moot question.
If you don’t get it, then it’s going to be impossible to explain it to you. Why should anyone bother trying to explain it to you if you’re never going to understand? You’ve singled out the one person who agreed with you rather than those who have tried to explain it to you. It’s clear that you really aren’t interested in understanding.
I don’t think art museums are any fun at all, so why do people go to them? Is it possible that people have different interests and things that you might not like, others do and vice versa?
On the second one I think I agree. It’s hard IME to project how you would feel about a given amount of spending you can’t afford now, if you could afford it (let alone what anyone else should do). However I’m pretty sure I would not like the idea of having to interact with ‘my’ crew as owner of a yacht too big to operate by myself. And yes to me it would be different than a cruise ship staff. That’s how I feel as of now. But give me a few billion and we’ll see how it actually pans out. 
On the smaller end it’s a matter of taste though and while I also don’t have a small boat at the moment, I can easily see why somebody would want to do this. Certainly ‘yachts’ that are just little boats you take out to sail, fish etc. with for the day. Although seems you’re talking mainly live aboard yachts. But I went to the NY Boat Show for the first time last year and they trucked in some boats that were remarkably large to get through the streets of NY and into the Javits Center, but that you could operate by yourself with some base of relevant knowledge (which I happen to have). A non-crew yacht isn’t necessarily tiny and cramped. Those boats would have significant upkeep costs relative to purchase price obviously, and you’d have to deal with repair and maintenance outfits, but that’s not nearly as unattractive a prospect to me as the idea of living aboard with a crew I pay. I daydreamed briefly ‘this would be nice’ while on those boats.
You don’t have to have lots of cash to spend time on a yacht, just so you can bake good banana bread.
There’s an old saying: If you can float it, fuck it, or fly it, don’t buy it. You’re better off renting.
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Sorry. Nice try, they look like nice people. But the boat still looks like it could make me claustrophobic in the middle of the ocean.
I am sorry it came across that way: I felt no one explained, all I read was: if you like it, you do - if you don’t, there is no point in explaining. I do not want to be convinced, I want to understand what others like about it. Does not mean that I would like it too, it’s just that now I do not get it at all. So I took the signature as an intro to a question. I am not implying that liking yachts is wrong nor am I trying to mock the yacht-lovers.
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/luxyacht.php
As to why some people enjoy yachting, literally: you do or you don’t. There is no explain.
Here and there there are yacht clubs with shared equipment you can use as long as you pay your dues, chip in on the actual maintenance and so forth. They are not going to let you borrow a yacht yourself before you have at least demonstrated competence sailing a dinghy, though, but you can ask a more experienced sailor to show you the ropes; how else will you learn?
Another way of thinking the same thing is not to tie up large amounts of money in depreciating assets.