You need to take this into account when estimating the number of active boats in your area from registration data. Several of his studies include boat size data as well as how they are stored. Recently, they did an economic impact study concerning the current low water levels in the Great Lakes. This was the first known government response to economic impact of weather on boating access. Transient boaters need to be viewed as both boaters and tourists in economic impact models.
Transient boaters can create substantial economic impact in a coastal communities.
This allows the state facilities to serve a population not sought after by the private sector, and still create substantial statewide economic impact. The spreadsheet model is now being moved to the web. Facilities in the state of Michigan will be able to run it online. They are moving from a survey to a monitoring situation. Marinas will enter data in a password protected mode.