gjgm
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maybe it will mean that top of the range engined boats will the most popular, on the basis they dont burn that much more fuel, and if you are going to cry filling up the boat, you may as well be hysterically sobbing.
doom bar ahead !
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Gludy
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The poor folk who cannot manage to boat anymore will vanish off the radar.
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A rather humerous slant on it all /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif but the above statement is, I think, true. I would add that many who may have entered power boating will not do so now.
The poor folk who cannot manage to boat anymore will vanish off the radar.
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A rather humerous slant on it all /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif but the above statement is, I think, true. I would add that many who may have entered power boating will not do so now.
Stoaty
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Peoples ideas of "good boats" will change back to sensible boats. I have done 270 hours so far this year. 270 inexpensive hours. An 8 knot any sea boat can be used all year round. I have no tent or gazebo on top to leak or get blown off so I never have to read the whinging threads about poor summer, price of red, state of the boat market, or resale value (boring).
Gludy
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I totally agree with you.
I plan most of my boat use at 8 knots because I enjoy the journey that way, not just arriving and even my new big boat does better than 1.5mpg which is great for a 70 foot plus monster.
However I will have the time to do this and that is the key word.
Others live busy pressurised lives and so when they go out in their boat to get anywhere different at all they need speed and hence one of those flash planing boats giving high speed - say cruising at 25 knots. These people do not have the time for a slow boat for the very reason that their boating time is limited.
Ok some of these will go displacement or SD but I do not think the majority will. Some will simply swallow the extra fuel cost because they do not use their boats much anyway and others will get out of power boating or take their boat overseas to increase the weather opportunity time of their boating.
So it is for those who this creates problems for that I have empathy.
I plan most of my boat use at 8 knots because I enjoy the journey that way, not just arriving and even my new big boat does better than 1.5mpg which is great for a 70 foot plus monster.
However I will have the time to do this and that is the key word.
Others live busy pressurised lives and so when they go out in their boat to get anywhere different at all they need speed and hence one of those flash planing boats giving high speed - say cruising at 25 knots. These people do not have the time for a slow boat for the very reason that their boating time is limited.
Ok some of these will go displacement or SD but I do not think the majority will. Some will simply swallow the extra fuel cost because they do not use their boats much anyway and others will get out of power boating or take their boat overseas to increase the weather opportunity time of their boating.
So it is for those who this creates problems for that I have empathy.
Dave_Snelson
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Bloody good for you. That's what we like to see - fighting spirit.
Now...where can I get a boat like yours?...
Now...where can I get a boat like yours?...
Cymraeg
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The tidal range in the Bristol Channel is such that, for most vessels of reasonable draught, the bar is indeed passable outside the buoyed channel at HW, but highly visible at LW. However silting of the estuary is causing a slight decrease in the available depth year on year, so local knowledge is always needed if deviating from the marked route.