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from the description of these lights: “Ideal for use as a tunnel light on canal boats as the 30 degree beam provides a penetrating light into the tunnel.”. Exactly what you DON’T want is a “penetrating light into the tunnel” into the face of oncoming steerers. The manufacturer / seller has obviously never been in a 2-way tunnel!

Hi Mark A sad but brave decision, in my opinion…one of the worst things you can do to a boat is just to leave it. That was a large part of our decision to sell Resolute, she was just sitting in the yard at Glascote doing very little. Yours is a beautiful boat and deserves to be loved and cherished once more. Another head turner. Hope you get a good price but also a new owner who will do her proud. With such a boat, that matters! Dave

As you are quicky discovering, it's not just the demands of maintaining and living on the boat that determine how realistic CCing is for those onboard commuting to work everyday, that's just one aspect of it. The other demands are those of the waterways authority and also the vagaries of the weather. Rivers flood especially in winter and if you're stuck on a river on an unsafe mooring you could be in big trouble. It's not really practical. Also why is it that 9 times out of 10, whenever these type of questions come up from people new to the waterways, they ask about the most difficult way to start a new life living on a boat? Not only do you want to move from a house or a flat onto a boat, which isn't easy for everyone, you also want to CC all year round including on rivers all while working full time and commuting into Cambridge and London! Sorry but that's just bl@@dy ridiculous. I've been living on boats for 23 years and I wouldn't fancy that. It's just too hard, especially for people new to boats and the waterways. Make it a bit easier on yourselves and get a long term mooring - one which turns a blind eye to liveaboards. Then you can go out cruising and when it gets too hard you can come back to the mooring. If I'm wrong and you find winter is easier than I'm suggesting then simply give up the mooring.

You mean you haven’t a bow thruster to get off the bank 🤦‍♀️ 😂😂😂

I don’t know what we’re supposed to do, but I think exiting the lock swiftly for a waiting boat seems the best solution. I think I may soon have to reset the default button in my head. It’s possible I'm getting too impatient. Turn the dial back down from 11…to…3 or even 2. I’m always slow after coming out for someone like yourself. But I do wonder why your not chasing at the bit and hovering 😃 I guess you know a boat coming out will often pull you away from the bank/landing/offside and set you up for the lock if you’re ready to deal with that. Sometimes I go a little fast to encourage it but I think it might get lost on folk and they just think something rude about me. Perhaps tick over is the way then.

Obviously if there is more than one boat waiting, the second one will be tied up or being held. Then it is appropriate to go slowly. But if there is just one boat, why would they possibly want to hold their boat stationary when the exiting boat passes? When I am waiting I always hope they come out quickly, because that will help to pull my boat away from the bank. My boat will move back and forth a bit but so what - it’s a boat! No need to fight it. Clearly you have different ideas but please don’t think your way is the only right way. It isn’t, and it is also the slowest way and the way that requires other people to meet your demands. Edit: thinking more about it, I look to see if the waiting boat is still tied up by centreline. If it is I will pass slowly to avoid alarming tilting of the boat, but wonder why the dozy boater is still tied up and why they don’t learn to boat properly. If they are not still tied up, I will go faster because I know it will help them even if they are too stupid to realise it.

That's what I prefer an exiting boat to do, I am on the stern ready for them to draw me out and I can motor in as soon as the gap is big enough.

It seems these days you are suppose to do it at tickover . I had one do that the other day, and then reversed back in to pick her husband up

Found a bit of info that might be of interest to you https://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/13246/conarea28_a3_rgb.pdf

an opportunity missed 😂 next year Curhound’ll hear me coming when I’ve got me chimes wired up!

"Cruising" and "fast"? 😂🤣😂🤣

Did he try selling you an ice cream 😂

I got told to slow down coming out of a lock, by a boater waiting to go in, not a moored boat

Should you opt for brokerage, Sarah Edgson at Glascote has a good reputation where trad style boats are concerned.

Well I would say that there is nothing wrong with doing your own gas provided you are competent to do so. No need to get it signed off by anyone. But that comes under the GSIUR (gas safety installation and usage regulations). I don’t think there is an equivalent for electricity. For bricks and mortar houses there is the building regulations part P, but that is not applicable to boats. If the building regs were applicable to boats, they’d be full of bricks. Oh, wait a minute…

One of the saddest sights for me was a new owner (on the K&A) who had purchased a quite nice trad boat (though not nearly as smart as this one) and was piling rubbish on the roof and painting untidy red oxide patches all over it, I assume so that he could be "part of the community". Boats like this are like historic buildings, you should see yourself as the custodian rather than the owner.

To answer the original question, some people say that looking after a boat is between a quarter and a third of a full time job, and this probably excludes the really big maintanence jobs. Another difficulty will be keeping everything working, the batteries charged, and the boat warm in winter when you have limited daylight. 45 foot is rather short to be a full time home for two working people. and most of all fate has dealt you a bad hand in that you are just not in the best area to be doing this. Cambridge to London involves a lot of rivers including the Nene which is often un-navigable due to flooding, getting through Denver and Salters Lode which can be out of action for lengthy periods due to silting, and then getting down to London which is crammed full of boats.

Exactly, why continue to hold your boat to the banc once the lock is clear?

The river north of Cambridge is regulated by the Environment Agency and as David says, don't recognise such a thing as Continuous Cruiser. However, there are a number of boats on the Ely Ouse that do this. But, all the moorings are 48 hour only and a lot of them are some distance from a railway station. Or roads for that matter. And, unlike CRT waters, there is a lot of antagonism against those who do it due really to the scarcity of moorings. Also, the river banks are privately owned so whilst there are a number of spots where you could wild moor the land owner might not put up with it for long, especially if those banks are let to angling interests.

A boat with traditional speedwheel and gear lever is much nicer to drive than a modern thing (in my opinion 😀) and in some ways actually easier to drive. Additional level of difficulty depends very much on the engine and in particular the size of the flywheel. Something like a Kelvin does require a huge amount of thinking ahead, but other engines, like a Gardner, will be only a little slower to respond than a modern engine. Trad boats will usually sit deeper in the water and have a significantly bigger prop, so depite a possibly slower response and their greater weight, will likely do an emergency stop much better than a moderm boat.

I just ignored this guy, didn't even look at him and it really wound him up. I did worry he might pop up at one of the bridges but he probably took the rest of the day to calm down.

I think it would be better to put the cable crimp terminals on top of the fuse, as it is easier to stop them rotating when you tighten the nuts.

Circus Field at Aylesbury http://aylesburycanal.org.uk/our-services/slipway-dry-dock/

Sorry to read of your loss, I'm selling mine as I can't look after it. it's going to some really nice purchasers and a real Gardner enthusiast, I've enjoyed it for 19 years, the waterways have changed, time to go. All the best for the future for you. M

Why do you think it has been up for sale so long. It's a marina livers boat.

If it is a copy - fundamentally the same, as a pre 1950 boat, and manufactured using the same materials as would have been used pre 1950 - then it is exempt from the RCD/RCR requirements.

As matty40s says, for a trad boat, it has a white interior, more subtle, not London White.

There have been a few traddy trads advertised recently for 80'ish and one for 90 but I don't know if they went for that (the 90 was a bit optimistic). This one is particularly immaculate and the Roger Fuller is a big plus, and its a bit newer than some, so I reckon it might get closer to £100??? For me the only downside is the darker interior but this might be a bonus for some people.

Back to it's form glory. Are the pictures you posted of it recent Mark. 👍

Hi Mark, I too am selling up, limited mobility from broken leg has made life difficult, I have agreed a sale, advertised a Tug Style Boat with 2 LW on the 'Duck', came under offer within 2 days of the advert appearing, , had lots of interest, slight hold up getting hold of a slipway and Surveyor (Vendor Survey is the way to go). The real attraction was the Gardner........... Your boat should be in high demand, if you want more info send me a PM..............bit nervous in case my purchasers see your boat,although the price range is different.............Bear in mind the advert in the 'Duck' cost £11.75, - brokers cost 5% +VAT.............also demand for bespoke 'Trads' south of Norton Junction is poor, where they really only want cheap 'Liveaboards' with a white painted interior........... and a 'BuzzBox' engine.......this advice was given by to me and has proved true. M PS. The Surveyor for the purchaser valued it more than the agreed price.............but I was happy.

Took me two days to clean it all off this week. Scrubbed up ok. 😀

£80k was the figure I was thinking.

Recreational craft directive paperwork proving building compliance in all respects with the European law that we are stuck with. The plate on the back is the builders HIN plate, you need all the rest of the paper as well.

RCD up to date? There are an increasing number of fussy brokers.