London Boat Show

We're gonna widen the walkways." Uh, and you turn up, and they widen the walkways because- It's not, it's not for a extra footfall, it's because they got fewer boats, and they say, "We're gonna turn the boats sideways to the pontoon so you can access all parts, and it'll feel much more sort of integrated and involved for the visitors." And again, you're not having them end on, you're having them side on 'cause you've got fewer boats.

And when I turned up there, it, it felt to me a little bit, uh, last year's show at Southampton, a bit like the last London Boat Show I ever saw-

Ooh

... where I turned up to the car park to do a day's work, and I thought I'd got the wrong day or the wrong week, 'cause there were no cars.

You know, the number of people that I've spoken to over the years who now have, you know, lovely big boats, and you talk to them and say, "Okay, you know, when was your first boating experience? How did you get into boats?"

Mm.

And the number of people who said, "Well, you know, as a kid I used to go along to the London Boat Show or the Southampton Boat Show," or not even necessarily as a kid.

Mm.