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Medway Maniac
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Topic: Worst places to sail Posted: 31 May 14 at 3:19pm |
That makes a refreshing change - I don't think I’ve heard of anywhere else with less traffic than there was.
How has that come about, do you think? |
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winging it
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 May 14 at 3:45pm |
People go further afield for their holidays. Hayling is just not so popular.
Some places have great water but no atmosphere.
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the same, but different...
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Medway Maniac
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 May 14 at 4:12pm |
Surely nobody was still going on holiday to Hailing in the 80’s, and I don't understand why day-tripper numbers would drop off.
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blueboy
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 May 14 at 7:40pm |
UK annual trips per head peaked in 1995/1997. Distance travelled and trips of 1 mile or more peaked in 2005, both now around 7% below peak. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-travel-survey-statistics Edited by blueboy - 31 May 14 at 7:49pm |
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blueboy
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 May 14 at 7:52pm |
In fact people did go on holiday to Hayling in the 1980s and still do e.g. Mill Rythe Holiday Village. It might not be the typical sailing demographic but it still exists. As for day trips to the seaside, I suspect they are going the same way as the family dinner. Families do less collectively than they used to. |
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mole
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 14 at 9:51am |
40 years ago sailing in the River Stour race from Sandwich Bay SC on the coast up the river to Sandwich Town quay.
You had to pass Pfizers pharmaceutical plant where all sorts of effluent was put into the river. We managed to get in a pickle tacking up the river and capsize, my brother swallowed a lung full and was ill for 2 weeks. Also the sound of the dogs that were kept for experiments was off putting. Sorry to offend any vivisectionists. Anyway, , Pfizers is closed now (like everything else in Kent), so its a much nicer race. |
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