The meaning of Cowes week.

[Judders]

There are plenty of good quality, well paid jobs in the yachting business. Okay, maybe not the sort of brilliant careers of celebrity needed to interest the media but good jobs with decent pay and long term prospects.

 

[l'escargot]

so - none of the yard workers or marina staff live or spend their money on the IOW? Ok - they're not all "high flying" careers ... but they all earn money and spend it somewhere!

You miss the point. The suggestion was that the marine industry money made the Cowes economy higher than the rest of the island. It isn't. Nor would I see yard workers and marina staff in the same earning category as the "very skilled jobs in the yachting industry" referred to in Falmouth.

 

[jason -and the arguenauts]

When you consider that Skye has a much smaller economy and got a bridge built you might begin to see what its about.

You'd be wrong. The Skye bridge is a classic example of spending in Scotland for political reasons that would never be considered where the money was made down in England.