Spatial Behavior in Recreational Boating

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Recreational boating has increased in popularity during the last decade with the largest increase in the North Central States. Watercraft can be used for a variety of recreational activities including pleasure cruising, fishing, water skiing, sailing and canoeing. An interview survey at 15 Ohio lakes in 1966 provided data for a spatial analysis of activity-specialized boaters. Boaters with the same activity desires were found to travel similar distances and to cluster at the same lakes. Sailors and water skiers traveled short distances to lakes on the fringe of metropolitan centers while fisherman and non-specialized boaters traveled longer distances to more remote lakes. Boaters interested in pleasure cruising traveled distances intermediate between the other two groups. It is concluded that trip length is related to trip purpose in recreational boating and that there is a spatial structure to activity specialization in Ohio.

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