Too many boaters?

[snowleopard]

the marina price thread keeps coming back to the supply and demand situation. there are simply too many boaters and too few berths so the prices keep going up.

we are constantly being asked to take part in encouraging more people to take up boating and on the surface it seems like a worthy cause to introduce more people to our sport. notice though that those who urge us to do this are always those with a vested interest in increasing the level of demand for services.

so - should we continue to encourage newbies or should we put them off with tales of storms, colregs and meat pies??

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