PD1964

Diesel is available on the canals from Marina’s, no need to go to the garage and lug Jerry Cans around, prices have dropped lately, cheapest I’ve seen £1:10 a Ltr up to £1:40.

Yes. We’re talking about normal boating here, not boating on a £300K all electric Narrowboat, with the battery system/Inverter to support it. The OP’s budget will get him a decent diesel Narrowboat with a gas system that’s it.

There’s not that many electric boats and with them costing £200K-£300K there won’t be a mad rush to buy them. With regards to your previous post, why would people need to change ovens/cookers/Hobs to electric? They use gas. Your budget wouldn’t come anywhere near to buying a decent boat and converting it all to electric or buying an electric boat so please don’t worry about it.

He can only go the size of his mooring, up North there’s few, if any designated 70ft moorings. If he wants to restrict travel I wouldn’t go over 60ft.

No, I’m just trying to tell you to really think about it, you have bricks and mortar, once you sell it you have nothing. A boat that looses value that’s it. Life’s great on the canals if you have a good monthly income without work, just please try it before you loose everything. Non of yous have been on a boat, but you all think it’s the life you want. Please don’t get carried away and most on here haven’t lived on one full time with a grown up family. Sorry, if you were single all ok, but I don’t you to spoil it for your families future.

Anyone can take that spot. Please don’t think your top of the list. Let’s be brutally honest, @mightyslay3r your dream is just a dream, yes sell your house buy a boat, move your family onboard, you haven’t a clue to what it involves. Sorry you’ve watched YouTube Vlogs and think you live in a sh@t area and life is sh@t, but you need a reality check, just because you and your family think life will be better on a boat it won’t be. Put your house on the market, sell it, buy a boat, live in a Marina, daughter can’t cope, moves in with brother, your money runs out, claim benefits, shit life, but nice view of the boat next pontoon, back to square one. Reality. I wish people would be more honest, until you sell your house, have funds, buy boat, it’s pointless going any further with this Thread. What if, Maybe???????? Answer this: Sell your house, £100K, buy a good 58’ family boat £60K plus, couple of years in a Marina £20K, then what if your family don’t like it? Little money left, boat now worth £50K, I don’t know if you have any early pensions in place, but back to work, boat depreciating? Back to Social Services for housing, back to where you live now. It’s not YouTube in the real world. Sorry if any of the Rose Tinted YouTube watcher’s are offended, but I may see real life on the Canals a little different.

How many years? Lemonroryd, Woodlsford, Castleford full of continuous Moorers, people on here who are advising the OP seam to have no up to date knowledge of the area. Let’s talk today not 15-20 years ago.

From what I gathered he’s been talking about Methley Bridge on the River????? The Towpath isn’t fenced off with keyed gates and any service points that are, are free access to all with a BW key.

But you’ve still got to get rid of the compost and with 3x people on board it will fill quickly. The reason that they’re popular is that the people don’t want to see and handle their own waste, that’s it, the majority aren’t composting as the toilet system was designed for. Forget composting toilets, you haven’t got the facilities to use properly, like the majority of people I see that fitted them, when it was a fashion thing. Now I’m seeing these people re-fitting Thetford cassettes.

And everyone on them talks cr@p, so give it a miss, just like the drunk and the urinal.💦💦

With regards to toilets, Pumpout facilities are getting few and far between and are hit and miss if working, prices are going up to £20-£25, with 3x on board you can quickly fill the tank. Forget about composting, once again with 3x people will fill quickly and getting rid has become an issue. People are now removing them from their boats. Your best off with a Thetford cassette with 3x cassettes, far easier to dispose of. The Thetford C263 with ceramic bowl seams to be the popular choice for women. Lots of threads on here about toilets, use the search engine, saves a lot of time and it’s normally the same answers/responses.

Tied on the rail, like a Cowboys Horse outside the Saloon in the Wild West🤠

You really need to seriously think about this and not view canal life through the Rose tinted glasses and YouTube. You sell your house, use the diminished equity to buy a boat, then what? How are you going to live? Pay your £5600 a year mooring? You will need a full licence, not just a river if you want to move £1000. It can’t be that easy to get the majority of this paid for by benefits? What happens if your daughter can’t cope as you have mentioned? I honestly don’t think Canal life will be for you and your family from what you’ve said on here and how your going to finance it. I can see it going pear shaped within a year. I’ve seen it happen with families, who thought the same, but had no experience with living on a boat.

Be careful of what you say on here, People don’t need to know your personal life and how your going to fund your boat or what benefits your claiming, but they could get wound up about it and become very judgmental and anti. Remember it’s a Public forum and anyone can view it. Please don’t go on about your Benefit claims, it could turn sour.

No one really uses Coal anymore, the stuff that people used to throw on their open fires years ago. Basically every thing that is sold these days is DEFRA approved, any worries have a look on their website for a list of what you can use.

If you go Trent route through Goole, you can get to Stanley Ferry and to Leeds. South through Eastwood Lock, not through Rotherham lock, if the extended lock gates are in use at Bramwith you could get to Stannilands/Thorne, that’s it basically. Everywhere the Tanker goes and the Gravel Barges, all the big electric locks. So Goole, Knottingly, Castleford, Stanley Ferry, Leeds, Doncaster, Mexborough, Rotherham.

Good luck and hope it works out 👍

Wow that’s a lot for the area, CaRT residential in a Marina £3885, being on Pontoons on the River they’re obviously charging a price be it Narrow or Widebeam. I’m a bit surprised at the cost, having passed there many times. Your not moving for a while but you will need a extra canal licence when you do, as no matter which way you go from there, you will be on a canal through your first lock and your on the river so it will flood. I take it the £5600 includes your Council Tax, so as you say you can register for all Social Benefits, Doctors/Dentists without worry?

Well it is, as your not registered with a local surgery and they won’t take you on by the sounds of I? What you register with a good surgery every 14 days being a good CCer? or are you a good CMoorer?😂 The OP is after a Marina mooring, an official registered one with the Council will be far better for him with regards to doctors/dentists, than living under the radar. You say you have a good doctor 300 mikes away, that you do phone consultation’s with, not really ideal is it? I take it they’re not that good to do home visits?

Your highlighting why it’s easier having an official registered residential mooring, as it doesn’t seam to be working for you without one. Are you in a Marina or CCing?

“That’s why I’ve only had one boat, but four wives and nine girlfriends in the last 20 years and I’m currently single with eleven Trombones” said Arthur😂👍🎺🎺

Methley Bridge, Yes I know it, on the river, make sure you can claim benefits and ask about flooding risk. Living on a boat is not cheap anymore. Diesel, Gas, electric has all at least doubled in the last year. Make sure you get all the costs, so you have no surprises, as your savings can quickly dwindle.

Yes, there’s the official Residential Moorings and often you will get others taking the pi$$ living on their boats and this often causes confrontation with both parties. Official residential will have all the benefits, so no need to hide under the radar which makes claiming for benefits, doctors/dentists much easier. If it’s an official residential, registered with the local council, paying Council Tax, it will be like a house and your daughter will be able to claim as far as I’m aware. If it’s not it could get complicated and cause trouble for you and the Marina operator. My Marina has got people under the radar, but no-one is claiming benefits, the Marina operator makes it clear that no-one can claim or they will be out, everyone knows this and adhere’s to it. If you said you were claiming benefits you would not be offered a mooring. Where are you looking to moor?

Obviously It’s only aimed at offshore boaters, canal boaters have more sense👍⚓️

That’s what I was getting at but didn’t want to ask too much when I posted before. This all puts another perspective on your requirements. You will need an official residential, like the one on the List I linked to at Tinsley £3900 per year plus Council Tax. There are not many around. People will say just use a relative’s address, but not always convenient, especially with claiming benefits. Before you go any further I would be looking at residential moorings in your area, official ones where you get full council status.