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Citation needed!

You will soon be able to fit in a cross bed on a 45' boat.

What's that old saw - "Wife wanted, must have boat. Please send photo of the boat."

Good point - all those old lanterns are as obsolete as ... erm ... the steam engine!

That's only correct if you are not buying (or keeping!) a boat older than 25 or 30 years. In this case, you can not get insurance (or are restricted to third party only) without a recent hull survey.

If so, "48ft permanent brick and concrete end-of-garden mooring" is the problem - you can only get a little boat on there, so it's no use to anyone with a bigger boat.

Length isn't everything you know

Is that rhyming slang?

Well, unless it's a box flood or a fresnel anyway

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And the only way to gain said experience is keep using the boat in slightly different ways to learn what you need to do.

Try Moons Bridge Marina - it's considerably less than Bridgehouse Marina. There are a whole load of private moorings from Preston to Garstang - look on Google/Bing maps at satellite view of the canal and you will see dozens of moorings. Finding out who owns them can be tricky, but most of them have a phone number on a sign next to them. Roots Lane and Blackleach Lane might be a good place to start. If you want to be nearer to Lancaster, look around Galgate.

A dry dock with a decent real ale bar.

We had long boats on the L&L, presumably to differentiate them from short boats due to having both 72' locks and 62' locks on the same canal.

I agree. In unrelated news the mother-in-law was on the boat today, so I agree more!