One assumes what BW really don't like is continuous moorers. Trouble is their numbers are not easy to pin down as most continuous moorers do move every so often. Some might stay a year or more but most move with the seasons or at shorter intervals. From observation I would say the number who overstay at moorings is quite large - in the multi hundreds - but coming back a few weeks after seeing one lot there one often finds a different mob in residence with the original lot moved to other sites. We wonders if there is a booking system. In other places (none mooring sites) you get the bridge hoppers but even they seem seasonal in some areas - or maybe move working place. What is definately true is that year on year this branch of our waterways world is definately on the increase. Some canals have few free moorings left for long sections.
--- On Thu, 1/22/09, Bruce Napier <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bruce Napier <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Continuous Cruisers To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 1:41 PM On 22 Jan 2009, at 13:21, John Slee wrote: > Before I trouble BW, has anyone already obtained the number of > registered continuous cruisers? > > Haven't seen the latest figures, but it's usually quoted at between two and three thousand, so a bit under 10% of the total. If you get an up to date figure, I'd be interested to know it. 末 All the best Bruce There are no strangers on the cut, only boaters we've yet to meet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
