Naughty Cal

Our air draft with the hoods up is closer to 9ft so a good foot or so more than the OP's. There is a video here though:

The Selby should be fine we got through there with our hoods up. Yes forgot about the SSYN as well. Shouldn't have a problem on there. They would be pessimistic if they under rated! They were definitely optimistic.

The max water draft dimensions published by CRT are on the optimistic side shall we say.

The boat we have just sold had very similar dimensions to yours and we cruised a fair bit of the northern system. You will be fine on the Ouse, Trent, Aire and Calder, Fossdyke and Witham. With the boat being small you would get it towed behind a large car very cheaply so in my opinion not worth the risk of heading out to sea with no experience. Someone like Tony Tugboat would move it for you on his trailer.

As I read it the 29th for day cruises.

We have been on the same berth at Burton Waters for 13 years. When we first moored there is was £1050 per year. This year it was £1600. The marina have agreed to fix prices for their long term moorers for the next 5 years with no more increases. No use to us now though

No. Bank transfer to a separate account to our day to day account and will then be transferred straight into a different savings account.

You would do well to weld a HIN onto NC 😃

£28k no survey we settled on to take it off the market 😀 I don't know his circumstances and to be quite Frank I don't need to know them.

Never met him. He does have my phone number and address though. He has read through the blog.

Our buyer is being very trusting. We are getting the money next week. He won't get the keys we are putting them where the boat transport guys can access them. We will have his money and he won't have seen the boat or know that it even physically exists 😕 He isn't going to even see the boat until it is transported to its new mooring in Norfolk. He has had no survey so is taking us on our word for the condition of the boat.