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buzzer1

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Does anyone live-aboard one? or even been on a holiday on one? If i can get the finance, im seriously thinking about doing it and getting outta the 4 walls and ratrace.
 
I'd love to do that. The missus won't have it though. I was thinking, when I retire from my job in about 10 years, I'll pick up a pension and lump sum, sell my house, buy a decent canal boat, and spend my time going up and down the country. Live life at a snails pace. Only problem would be getting to my footy matches. It would take a week to get to an away game!!
 
Me and 3 mates spent a week on a canal boat a few years ago.It was one of the best weeks of my life,I would love to live on one full time.
We went on the River Avon around the Worcester area,saw a pub, moor boat ,few pints and on we went!!
Mind you at the end of the week the boat was listing to one side where the toilet was!!!
 
beefheart said:
Me and 3 mates spent a week on a canal boat a few years ago.It was one of the best weeks of my life,I would love to live on one full time.
We went on the River Avon around the Worcester area,saw a pub, moor boat ,few pints and on we went!!
Mind you at the end of the week the boat was listing to one side where the toilet was!!!
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ha ha ha. Did the boat have cenny heating or did you put wood on the f
ire to generate yer hot water etc?
 
Not for me but I do know someone selling a 60ft narrow boat for £35k, it is possible to get a mortgage for a boat which for some reason is known as "Bottomage"
 
def try before you buy. me and group of eight blue mates have done it twice now on the Thames once from henley and once from oxford and it is laugh a minuite, fill up with Stella and breakfast goodies on thursday morning and as the previous poster said moor up at any pub you see have a few ales and then set sail again till it goes dark. But not sure about living on one, some times people living on the canals look like waterbound Gypsies to me.
 
lloydie said:
Not for me but I do know someone selling a 60ft narrow boat for £35k, it is possible to get a mortgage for a boat which for some reason is known as "Bottomage"
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Im speaking to a boat mortgage dude next week, cant wait. I rek id need a widebeam instead of a narrowboat, just for that bit of extra room. If i can get one for about 4 or 5 hundred a month, im in.
 
My sister and Brother in law have had a boat for years.
It is for leisure so they don't live on it, but during the summer they'll take off for five or six weeks. I must say that from a canal this country looks beautiful, you can't believe what a totally different aspect you see from and travelling through the middle of Manchester is something to behold.
I couldn't live on one though
 
Me and the wife have talked about this recently, we sometimes go for walks along the canal and have been looking into the prices of boats, its something we cant afford right now but maybe in the future, couldn't live on it though, would only use it for holidays.
 
The wife and me and two dogs had a weeks holiday last year in a narrow boat near Wales,what a fantastic time we had.Must say you have to be on your guard all the time when travelling up and down,seen some right collisions with other boats.The boat we had was the dogs bollocks,central heating nice kitchen/bathroom.Best of luck.
 
I have some friends who have a boat and I go on it quite alot it is fantastic they paid 74,000 for a brand new one fitted to their design it has central heating nice little duel fuel fire mini bath and shower and proper kitchen home from home really
 
went on a stag do from middlewich to chester on one of these things, at the start everyone wants to steer and play at being captain birdseye, after the first few miles it dawns on everyone that it is the most monotonous job on the boat, people steer clear of that rudder like ithad swine flu!!

couldnt believe that all the way from middlewich to chester there is only one fecking boozer on the canal, absolutely parchted by the time we got there.

loved the pace of life and outdoor lifestyle, maybe a bit hard to live full time on one of these boats and the other people are nutty as fruit cakes!

a word of warning, if you dare hit over 4mph on a straight run you will receive the full wrath of other boat users with shouts of "wheres your water skier" i found that extending the middle index finger in their direction worked just fine as a response :)
 
buzzer1 said:
Does anyone live-aboard one? or even been on a holiday on one? If i can get the finance, im seriously thinking about doing it and getting outta the 4 walls and ratrace.
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go for it, would love to, not sure a floating carpet shop would make any money though:)
 
de niro said:
buzzer1 said:
Does anyone live-aboard one? or even been on a holiday on one? If i can get the finance, im seriously thinking about doing it and getting outta the 4 walls and ratrace.
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go for it, would love to, not sure a floating carpet shop would make any money though:)
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maybe not, but if it was a FLYING CARPET SHOP then that would make some serious cash!!!!
 
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