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The wife sunbathed naked on a beach once but got fed up cos they kept trying to roll her back into the water.

Nice sneer geezer, I can see the twisted nostrils. So community is an 'inconvenience to others'. It must be very lonely, your life.

We are going away for a week cruising - why does my wife need about 4 coats, 6 pairs of shoes three travelbags of clothes, various hats and about a cwt of makeup/lippy? ........ Whats wrong with a carrier bag with one handle with an assorted anount of smalls? Does my head in. <Love her really>

How long will it be on the 48 hour moorings?

how do we take greenies away ? lol

I have often done it this summer in France. It's just fantastic. I'm not a nudist in any other way, but going along I just felt the urge to be naked, I have no idea why, My wife took a picture. If I get 10 greenies I will post it.

Here here! London has a housing problem. London has a traffic problem. London has a gun crime problem, gang problems, pollution problems... CRT shouldn't have to deal with it? Then someone else should manage the canals and waterways in London. Congestion charge seems to work quite well for traffic. Not sure what happens to the revenue... Discuss.

It would be your CMers causing the congestion in the 2nd lock at Hillmorton? C'mon get some consistency in your bigotry.

I am 33. Last year I was paying £500 per month rent on a farm in Melton Mowbray. Since having a ride on a canal boat at Stoke Bruerne when I was 12 I've always had the idea in the back of my mind of having my own but it was not practical while I was in the forces. I woke up one morning last year and though "what am I doing wasting this money, I may as well chuck £500 in the bin every month". I went out and bought a boat. Now I can't imagine myself ever living on land again. My point...... It is possible for someone to buy a boat as an alternative to renting AND embrace the lifestyle/community and not have to fit into JUST one of the 2 categories that many people on here think there is.

You're asking why I think something is a problem in reply to a post in which I said "it isn't a problem in and of itself"? I've also not said it's right or wrong. It's worth thinking about though, why the cut is predominantly of interest to old, white, men, perhaps if we knew the answer we would indeed be able to make a judgement as to the rights or wrongs of the situation, but we don't, so we can't. I suppose when the boat licence covers the cost of the system and we no longer rely on a grant from the rest of society we can push such question completely from our minds.

There is nothing less common than common sense.

Because all communities need young to replace old over time otherwise the average age rises. In truth I see no shortage of the young on the canals. I would say the distribution is about right. Can't say the same for this forum. But then younger boaters are more likely found on Facebook.

Ah, the 'community' - a word often used to give pseudo-credibility to a random group of people who allegedly share a common goal, usually one that goes against the established norm to the inconvenience of others. It's all about the mechanics of boat movements - if there's eventually no accessible moorings because your young vibrant 'community' are nose to tail for mile after mile how are people who actually want to cruise supposed to manage?

Turn nasty? You're already there. As happens I have a crap memory and I'd forgotten your objectionable views until you embarked on your racist nastiness. And your views on post 21?

If anybody wants to have a racist rant then they can expect me and others to offer the opposing view. There is no nit picking or point scoring. Redfastlad has been banned from the forum for his bigoted outbursts and threatening and abusive behaviour and never learns that this isn't the place for it. Every time he comes back he can't help himself and has to have an odious off-topic rant. His post had nothing to do with fishing from his boat and I am not the only one who objected to it but he chose me to be portrayed as the lone troublemaker. I am not the only person who objected to his bile and if he had turned on Graham, Alan Fincher, Alan de Enfield, Machpoint or Bazza I suspect they would have responded in a similar way to me. Write racist rubbish and I will always react, just as others have who he has chosen not to respond to. You are welcome to your opinion of me but I'm afraid it will not influence the way I respond to bigots.

Look at it this way Mark, if taking all the bits & bobs makes your OH feel comfortable, happy and content; doesn't that mean she will be more relaxed and therefore you'll have a much more pleasant 4 day cruise? OR How many tools do you have on-board your boat for all those "just in case" situations? There's always 2 ways to "swing a cat"

Or Blue Nob as he becomes in winter

Excellent news and good luck with the fitting out. BUT... er... I think you should brush up on your arithmetic skills before you start cutting up the timber! MtB

Ay up? Don't understand what needs sorting out? We have a WB 57ft. by 10.10 and we've been up to the winding ol past Barby Moorings a few times with no issues, and yes we passed other boats both moored and oncoming, one of which was a fairly wide CRT work boat with no issues. And to add a bit of honey to the pot, it was in the "busy season" and we were very much novices. I appreciate it wouldn't be all that pleasant to get stuck behind a WB for any length of time as we need to travel so slowly to avoid disturbing the banks and moored boats, but I would hope that most are like us, and pull over to let narrow boats past as often as possible.

It depends on the kind of person you are and how you go about things. For me way back in 1999 having spent a weekend smashed out of my skull on a mates 40ft boat I thought to myself. "I could live on one of those". I put my house on the market on the Saturday, had a look at a few boats on the Sunday in various mariners decided what I could spend. I'd accepted an offer on the house by the Wednesday and a week later a boat was advertised (by an estate agent) in the local paper. Went and had a look, spoke to the chap who ran the moorings who agreed we could live there and did a deal with the chap selling it. From initial idea to living aboard in 5 weeks. It would have been sooner but selling houses is a boring protracted process involving solicitors. Everyone and I mean everyone said I was mental, I hadn't looked into it properly, I didn't know anything about boats, blah blah blah. The way I saw it was I'd sold a house and bought a boat and the worst thing that could happen was I decided I didn't like it. That being the case I'd flog the boat and buy another house. 15 years later I'm sat on that boat now. It's 12ft longer and a it's changed colour a couple of times, the inside has been completely ripped out and refitted but I'm still here and hopefully will be in another 15. Point of the tale? If you want to do something, just bloody do it. Life's far too short for cocking about.