nelsons willie
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speaking of things nautical Captain Dunne is running today its up against Captian Gerrard funnily enough
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nelsons willie
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ahoy there.. the elf and safety chaps are pretty strict these days..you will probably have to spend a bit kitting yourself out with following items
exileindevon said:ahoy there.. the elf and safety chaps are pretty strict these days..you will probably have to spend a bit kitting yourself out with following items
Thats the life for me i rek. Not sure about David Essex though.
Paul powers moustache
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Ah now the memories are flooding back ( no pun intended )
When me and my late wife were first married ( 1987 ) we bought a small house like you do ,and after ten months got bored with a house and two jobs so we sold it for a big profit .
That profit went on a fifty foot narrow boat and a two year sabaticall from work .
An absollutely great way to wind down
Just a few pointers
you will be severely restricted to where you can go in a wide beam boat , most canal locks are seven foot wide so they can accomodate a boat with a 6.6 foot beam .
Your yearly waterways licence is calculated by the length of your boat See here http://www.waterscape.com/media/documents/20586.pdf
When me and my late wife were first married ( 1987 ) we bought a small house like you do ,and after ten months got bored with a house and two jobs so we sold it for a big profit .
That profit went on a fifty foot narrow boat and a two year sabaticall from work .
An absollutely great way to wind down
Just a few pointers
you will be severely restricted to where you can go in a wide beam boat , most canal locks are seven foot wide so they can accomodate a boat with a 6.6 foot beam .
Your yearly waterways licence is calculated by the length of your boat See here http://www.waterscape.com/media/documents/20586.pdf
1894
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Great fun if approached correctly. Not that I know too much about though. Total experience amounts to hiring Day Boats at Skipton, and going off for the day. If a few go it's great fun. You need a few hands for all the swing bridges and stuff. Come to think of it, I don't think we've got any posters here nicknamed 'Rosie & Jim.'
Paul powers moustache said:
Thanx for that PPM. I know this might sound a bit mad, but i wont really be using it to cruise up n down, just to have the odd day ouy but basically just to live on, at one with nature etc, and i believe that its like a community within itself, likeminded people and all that caper. I rek it'd defo be for me.
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buzzer1 said:
hey man, i live right next to a picturesque canal, with a lot of canal boats on it ... in south cheshire, cant get much better than that for canal-boat-ing .... BUT ! here is my point ....... it really aint all it is cracked up to be !
i run along this canal daily, and all it seems to be (for the past 7 years) is driving a very slow, large boat, down a narrowish canal, going very slowly. there is pretty much nothing else you can do, even when they are tied up and stationary at the side all there is to really do is relax some more ... except you wont be relaxing that well as it will just either be on a canal bank or walking to another area to "explore" .....
ive got a mate who went on a canal boat holiday (2 weeks) ... he said it was alright to relax with, for the 1st 2 to 3 days, but after that he got monumentally bored and just wanted to stop ....
however this is just 2 peoples opinion, it might be right up your street, i dont know, but you must be advised, the joy of relaxing next to a little canal does wear thin relatively fast .... my advice, if you want to get away from the rat race and have a bit of dosh, go to visit the wine country and vineyards, or even go to places such as Pompeii to see some of the ancient stuff ....... if all else fails, there are great times to be had in the Lake District or down in Cornwall (though c-wall might be chocker this time of year)
anyway, sorry this went on a bit, but hope it helps :-)
I went and had a look at Fettlers Marina near Ormskirk, the yearly fee was 3k i think, but you get yer electric, water and no council tax, but i know that there are cheaper ones with the same facilities, and at the end of the day, you can have a wood burner which gives you the heating and leccy', you just need yer fire wood, turn the engine over for an hour a day and you are set. You can get the net and sky etc etc when you live-aboard. You dont even need to live on a marina of any description, just find a bit of a secluded spot, and yer in. IMO it sounds ggrrreat.stony said:
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buzzer1 said:
Don't forget if you're on the boat more or less full time you'll need to on an a mooring that gives you access to water and a pumping out station
Don't forget if you're on the boat more or less full time you'll need to on an a mooring that gives you access to water and a pumping out station[/quote]
THANKS MATE.
I think they have pumpout station points up n down the canal, and you can just get a few 25gallon drums n fill em with water for yerself. I think you are exempt from C. TAX if you move the boat hundred yards or a bit more, every few days or so, cause it doesnt count as a fixed address then. I'll have a good trawl on the internet for some boatsites etc, after me tea.
THANKS MATE.
I think they have pumpout station points up n down the canal, and you can just get a few 25gallon drums n fill em with water for yerself. I think you are exempt from C. TAX if you move the boat hundred yards or a bit more, every few days or so, cause it doesnt count as a fixed address then. I'll have a good trawl on the internet for some boatsites etc, after me tea.