Starcoaster

You do not share her boat.

I sort of disagree that a small boat will automatically have a small bathroom. While I have been in lots of smaller boats whose bathroom was more of a closet, particularly those that are older and with the original fit-out, my 30ft NB's bathroom does not take up a lot of the boat's space, but is very roomy. It is a wet room constructed as a large quadrant shower tray with an add-on ledge of about a foot at the back that the bog and two spare cassettes sit on. This means that there is plenty of space to use the bog and pull your drawers up, turn around etc., and also plenty of room in the shower. It is much roomier and more comfortable than any of the usual types of bathrooms and showers I have used on other people's much larger (68-72ft territory) boats that have a more traditional set-up of a very small fully enclosed shower that you can't even bend over in properly, with the bog squashed up against the sink. The other boat that I spend/have spent a significant amount of time (Reginald, 45ft with 15ft of that being tug deck) has the same sort of wet room arrangement and similarly comfortable peeing and showering space without losing a lot of the interior to it.

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with ferrets. I had never really been around them until I started as a student veterinary nurse, and I was rather scared of them at first-so fast and full-on and not shy to grab you with their teeth if they want your attention (or to steal your pen...) but now I think they are hilarious little shitbags who will shamelessly steal anything that is not nailed down whilst simultaneously demanding love and attention. About two months ago I got an automatic CCTV alert in the middle of the night from a clinic that I do one weekend a month on call for-when I viewed the stills of the alert, I found that Festus (who along with a couple of others are clinic pets after being dumped there) had let himself and all of his mates out of the cage for a run around the kennel room... This is the second time he has done this, the first time the on call nurse decided to leave them to it because there were no inpatients in, and by the morning they had made the pet shop side of the clinic look like it had been burgled, and had stolen and/or ruined most of the dog toys on the display.

Too flaming right! Her crap is on her boat, not obstructing anyone else's way. Nobody owes the rest of us a pretty view...

I have three carnivorous plants in my window-a Venus fly trap, a sundew and a pitcher. I am not sure if we are really into the thick of the annoying midge part of the year yet, but they do seem to be keeping up fairly well so far, the sundew in particular-it's like a big living flypaper but less gross.

Oh top name! One of George R. R. Martin's earlier works, and a good one.

How peculiar! On the one hand I am surprised that CRT doesn't have a rule about not doing this when not on duty, but on the other hand I can see why it would never cross anyone's minds that someone would want to!

Yes. I will sell you one for a legion of Unsullied. *Sales are not binding.

Or, wear the comfortable pants...

Ok, yeah sure... Did you read/see that episode of GoT where Daenerys Targaryen sold a dragon to the slavers?

Can I have the yacht?

Are they all different types?

I agree. I'd like to have loads of different types of boats for different things, if I had the free funds and free time-a seagoing tug to welly around offshore on for fun, a big fancy GRP yacht in warm tropical water full of fish... But at present, a NB is suitable for both my current location and usage. I think the original question has to come with the context of use, both in terms of the waterways it is on and the owner's plans in terms of living (or not) aboard... simply making a standalone comparison of GRP to narrowboat without context is meaningless. And "narrowboat" does not automatically mean it is made of steel either of course... There is no such thing as a general-purpose boat that is equally well suited to all lifestyles, conditions and waterways. Else we'd all have one...

I only have one boat, but I'd totally like two. One to stay on a mooring (my fantasy personally owned stretch of land, of course) and the other to go off playing on... I would also like to own said fantasy private mooring outright, and I'd really like a Pullman train carriage on it too. And a big-assed yacht somewhere warm with clear seas you can swim in, the moon on a stick, etc...

Avoiding volockies by going out of hours isn't even a solution at Hillmorton if my late evening experience was representative!

I can't really comment on that because I only see them when transiting myself rather than spectating, but they do seem to be very bossy/controlling/disrespectful of the autonomy of boat crews, as well as being rather huffy if you step outside of their parameters.

The Hillmorton gang are... interesting. A lot of people seem to have had problems there ranging from rude to potentially dangerous. When MtB and I locked through coming up for 9pm one night earlier in the year when all of the locks were unmanned (given the time), when we got out of the bottom lock, a woman that I recognised as one of the sometime-volockies came stomping out from the nearby house and painstakingly checked all of the paddles and gates whilst frowning disapprovingly at me, like she'd already put her lock to bed for the night and we had woken it up and got it all excited again when it had already been tucked in and had its story...

And with white paint and a roller too on an apparently nicely painted boat... It does seem odd, but maybe so odd that it was too obvious to be a criminal! Then again, read the stories of the lack of brains of some of those that get caught, on the other hand..

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I interviewed CRT's regional volocky manager in person a couple of years ago after an incident at Hillmorton, and got absolutely crystal clear conformation from him that volockies should only start "helping" with permission of the boat's crew, and should always stop/back off if asked. Send a complaint. I have found volockies to fall into many different camps from the really helpful to the too scared to approach a private boat, to the absolute asshole end of the spectrum. The latter surprised me, having been given the full picture on how they are trained and managed, but I guess some still slip through the net.

It is going to look AWESOME when it is done. Other things you can do when you don't have a boat but desperately want to be in the boat gang: Carry a key float with your house keys on them and put them prominently on the bar in the hope of drawing boaters to you in the pub. Wipe diesel and stern grease down your jeans so that you give off the right pack smell to the other dogs boaters. Lurk around locks with a windlass and a bike and harass hire crews into learning forward setting. Walk remote stretches of towpath in a long knitted jumper, rigger boots and a flat cap, hoping someone passing will stop and offer you a lift "back to your boat." Take your car's engine apart, leave the parts lying around the kitchen for a bit, tell everyone of your grand reconditioning plan and then put a new engine in anyway. Stand around near a line of moored boats with an empty mug, a full tin of biscuits, and a hopeful expression. Train your dog to leap onto every moored boat they see so that you can start a conversation with the boat owners whilst hoiking said dog back off. Push everything on your shelves right to the back so they don't fall off when the house rocks. Get up in the middle of the night and run down to the cellar to check that there's not a few inches of water sitting in it. Turn your mains fuses off at 10pm every few nights and learn to live without electrical stuff until the following morning.

Do something/get a hobby related to the boat ? Ie., paint or make some stuff for it or something...

What happens when you throw cat shit on the stove?