Steve Heaven has brought this to us :
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 22:51 +0100, Brian wrote:
>
>> We must have passed the longest run of linear moorings I have
>> ever seen, I would estimate them to be 1.5 miles long,
>
>
> Whilst in Chester last year we met someone whose boat is moored there.
> They told us the landowner had given up farming as he was doing so well
> from the boaters. He also told us how much per ft/yr they pay. We did a
> bit of maths and worked out that the farmer is getting over £150k per
> year from the boats !
>
We counted them today, 137 boats moored end to end. It took half an
hour to pass them as I was going a bit quick due to the strong wind.
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