Elsewhere on the horizon the boom of pleasure boating is prompting prophets to ponder about the future. Morley Cooper, writing in Jim Gillespie's "The Boating Industry" about the next five years, sees the sudden tease in pleasure craft making the mooring problem in harbours really acute, Along with his prophecies about an annual increase of 100,000 pleasure craft and large-scale production of low-priced cabin cruisers 25 to 32 feet long, Cooper declares "when boating takes its place among the billion-dollar industries of America, it will cease to be pushed around. Harbourmasters and dockage engineers will quit relegating yacht anchorages to odd corners of oun bays. These authorities will be forced to set aside boating boom. This is the outboard. Many a yachtsman has cut his deep water teeth by acquiring an outboard, learning to hanker for the sea every year when summer comes around, and gradually promoting himself up the scale of navigation by successively owning inboard runabouts, then small cruisers and eventually a sturdy oft-shore craft.
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