On Monday, October 01, 2007 9:55 AM [GMT+1=CET],
Rob Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Adrian,
>
> Are you saying that only 60% of registered boats are narrow?
>
> I certainly haven't been all over the canal system, but I would have
> thought the proportion of wider beam craft much less than 40%.

Apart from the broad/wide canals (apologies, Adrian, I can never remember 
the pedantic distinction between the two terms),  where the proportion of 
broader craft has been increasing in recent years, although not yet to 40%, 
there are many miles of river navigations where narrow-beam craft are 
probably in the minority.  Try looking at the Thames between Reading and 
London, for example.

Mike Stevens
narrowboat Felis Catus III
web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk

No man is an island.  So is Man. 


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