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When wealth spreads through a population, so too does the ability for more people to participate in the inevitably expensive sport of yachting. In Britain in 1989, a report called the Leisure Consultants` 1989 Boating and Water Sports Report predicted an increase in demand for moorings from the then figure of 190,000 to 175,000 (over 6.5m) – an increase of an extra 85,000 by the end of the decade. Of course, the very severe recession which appears now to be ending in Britain has delayed this increase of demand, but there is no doubt that when growth returns to our economies, so too will the demand for boats and therefore the demand fo