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A thread that just keeps giving! Good luck Miss Max.

These works around Middlewich are definitely taking place now Trent & Mersey Lock 72 https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notice/7757/lock-72 Shropshire Union Lock 2 https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notice/7731/lock-2-stanthorne-lock There is an Open Day at the now drained Lock 72 on Saturday November 26th https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/events/2016-11-26-lock-72-trent-and-mersey-canal-open-day

I paid £25 for Family Legal Insurance which gave me £100k cover (£80k plus VAT). I had something I wanted to try use it on and they told me I had a case and could trigger it. However if at any time a Barrister thought I had a 51% or more chance of winning I had to proceed with my own funds, if their £100k had been exhausted. It was a complicated case with a firm who could choose to fight it abroad. The costs could have been a runaway train, capable of bankrupting me! So I bottled it and didn't proceed. Cross border cases are more expensive and problematic. Good luck with what you decide.

Some solicitors have free sessions where people can discuss the merits of a potential case. If they think you have a strong case they might take it on as No Win No Fee. Another option, (if you can use a residential address maybe not possible for full time on a boat?), is to look at adding Family Legal Insurance to the Home Insurance policy (£20 to £30 a year), if the terms read like you could use it to fight your case.

Clever cat, she obviously told the other to wait while it got some help. Have you thought about asking that cat about some of your boat problems? Maybe draw two options and ask it to pick one?

This is a website with info about TV options in motorhomes: https://www.sky4caravans.co.uk/

Change your diet? Failing that, buy some of that stuff that the Police smear under their noses before examining a ripe murder scene.

Buy a shell so you don't have to strip it down?

The government want everybody up to their eyeballs in mortgage debt to their banking masters. Then people have to work more years and pay more taxes. So anything, like boating, that might look like a alternative cheaper form of shelter has to be made to look less appealing and cost more. So anything is possible re a new Act.

Is it possible that they noticed the licence was out of date, reported it to the CRT who removed it, then they bought it from the CRT?

I've been thinking about this for myself. Hiring isn't that cheap even out of season. I think doing 3 instructional days with different people on different style boats, in differemmt winter months, would be more useful and half the cost of a week's hire.

Apologies if I made a post I shouldn't have done. I was only asking for clarification as although MtB's post did seem to be implying a reduced offer might hurt the broker more, do the figures contradict that? Against a £1,350 commission they still had a £7k profit (minus the cost of fixing anything obvious) if accepting the £27k. Though now VAT has been mentioned I'm not sure where that fits in. Anyway don't want to derail the OP's thread and good luck if they purchase this boat or in their hunt for another.

Is that because you think if the boat is owned by the broker, they are less likely to accept a lower offer?

On the Llangolen yesterday, approaching me in the distance were a couple with 2 children walking alongside someone else in a canoe. I expected the canoeist to be a 3rd child but as I passed realised it was Grandma's canoe!

I got chatting to a liveaboard a couple of weeks ago, while on a canal walk 10 miles from where I live. He was mooring for the night and was going to cycle to pick his car. By coincidence he was parked yards from where I live so I gave him a lift to his car. This got me thinking about what would be the best sort of vehicle to have while being a NB liveaboard. What about a van that's big enough to live in? If you wanted to moor/store the boat and spend a couple of winter months driving down to Southern Europe. There are lots of things you could move from boat to van and back, depending which you are using at the time.