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8 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Nothing is free on the canals.
It is now dearer to live on a boat legitimately than in a house/flat.
I may have to move ashore sometime, please tell me where I can find a nice rental property under £12K per annum.
I sold my cold , dampish flat five years ago, and it's been cheaper ever since..
The Anchor flats suitable for folks over 55yo, are £12K plus. That's one year, and Council Tax will be about £2K.
I live legitimately on my boat for £1300 pa.
Insurance cost less than a house.
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Hmmm, lots of questions to answer in one post.
I think you could do your maths based on two scenarios
1) CC which is a boat which has no home mooring. Licence only budget £1300 year1, £1500 y2, and so on.
2) marina living rent £3K, licence £1K. (y1 £4K, y2 £4.4K)
Of course these are ballpark figures.
There are some Residential Moorings ie with Planninh Permission, but they do exist, and you will have to add on the cost of Council Tax, this is bound to be significant.
If you are working nights, that means you will need to be somewhere quiet to sleep during the day, make sure boat is well insulated and well ventilated. In summer I often moor under trees to keep cool. These places may be out in the sticks, but you should be able to cycle along the towpath to your car, your commute is going to increse.
If you commute daily, and cc, you probably need to find a new mooring every week (14 days if you want to push the licence limits of the licence) with parking. You will soon identify nice moorings. I can tell you Burnley is not one of them.
If you are new to boating, and the boat is new to you, stick to the one it is on, eg the L&L.
I trust you wife is with you on this plan, as she is going to sleep on the boat alone, which means selecting a quiet mooring, which also has vehicle access, but what is she going to do during the day, (housekeeping one hour, walking one hour, sleeping eight hours, leaves another fourteen hours to fill)
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19 hours ago, David Mack said:
Specifically, what promises has Parry made and been unable to keep?
How? Please give specific examples (rather than vague assertions), indicating how much money would be freed up for other activities.
What are theses "non essentials" and how much money could be redirected as you suggest?
The non essentials probably include things like signage, general educational stuff and image promotion: these things are required by UK Govt, the main funder of the network.
Boaters forget they are a minority and have little political influence.
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20 minutes ago, Momac said:
I think you must be almost there
Click on ''My Boats'' on your main login page
On the next page on your boat details is the option to click on ''sightings''
Yes but that is when i get confused, the map does not show my sightings.
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On 12/09/2023 at 10:57, haggis said:
Just discovered that when you log into the C&RT web site, a new option has been added under BOATS. You can now check where your boat has been seen by one of the checkers. Sadly almost all of this years sightings of KELPIE have been in the marina.
Hmm, unfortunately i can't find this heading BOATS, where is it?
I know I once found my recent sightings, but I have clicked on the bit that says find your boat sighting here, and it does not seem to work. I thought I had signed in, do I have to stay on that sign in page.?
There is something claiming to be an interactive map but is it really, it's just a map with different layers, something like a raster map, its not something i can pin something on, which is what I would term interactive..
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9 minutes ago, blackrose said:
Why not? I did. I was outside most of the time doing other stuff but if I needed to get inside it wasn't a problem as long as the blasting wasn't at the bow where I go in & out.
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Not everyone with a boat has any idea about blacking the hull, or any other tpoic, so there will always be thread drift. This keeps your thread live, but the longer it goes on, the less specific will be the responses.
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In my opinion, it's a completely different scenario, if your boat has bitumen on it, that all needs to come off, lots of bare metal work, then a primer, then two or three topcoats, all done accord8ng to data sheet instructions, then a week curing, so in reality, it's two weeks with good weather and good facilities, then curing for 5 to seven days.
Blacking over bituminous coating,, its a five day job.
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I dont think licence fee increases are responsible for increasing overstayers.
There seems to be a lot of assumptions and downright rubbish spouted in the article.
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Filling a lock, watch out out for overhanging walkways behind the stern, just the thing to compress your tiller at the very least.
If you are singlehanded while operating the paddles the boat will tend to move back, and the centreline will tend to slacken to allow this.
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What is this WFH, another acronym which may or may not be essential.
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I have a huawei router, the twin aerials were £19.99 from amazon. Im with Three and it works fine 98% of the time, not good enough for professional use, but OK for me.
The battery is swollen, but its been like that a while. Ill probably replace them this year, technology and all that....
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1 hour ago, Unicorn Stampede said:
In terms of moving, they'd likely just shift every other weekend? That fixes the water issue as well.
OP does not say if they are working while on the boat or onshore while living on the boat.
They might have a marina berth with facilities in mind.
I cant see a problem moving the boat to satisfy the CRT. There will always be people who set out to dodge every restriction, but we cant assume that OP fits that category.
Im sitting on a 48 hour mooring, The adjacent boat has that particular look of permanence.
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My priorities were something that looked nice, was made by a good hull builder and not a project.
I used Appollo Duck, however, this boat was suggested by @Tumshie , and was the only one I saw.
I swerved one that turned out to be of uncertain ownership, and looked like a project.
You have to be happy with important aspects, and accept that there will be things you want to change, not immediately , but before naive enthusiasm has faded.
I was under the gun to buy a boat, but did a lot of research, so in fact this boat has worked out, five years on board
When I left the marina (shoreline electricity), I had to replace all the batteries and the solar, (being off grid needs a bit more attention to detail or you will kill the batteries). I also cleaned the diesel by collecting as much as possible and letting it settle over three days. Added some additive, let it settle, return to the tank, then pumped it out again and let it settle. I got rid of 30 % of the diesel, replaced the fuel intake gasket, and have had no problems with water or bug etc.
The Webasto used to scream, but I bought some Diesel Boost, which mentioned the heater, added it when tank was low, and ran the heater for a few hours.
I save £1000 per annum, just to cover maintenance: haul out, high pressure wash, new anodes, and coating the hull every 3 to 5 years. Sandiing, painting the cabin and gunwales every five years. The better the job, the longer it should last
Servicing the engine depends on what you have bought. I did my own oil flush and change when I decided to go cc, and there was no one marine qualified available.
I get someone more flexible to do the 500 hour service, includes checking mountings, and fittings.
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Well, 17ft is fairly small, do you have a trailer and intend to move about on the inland waterways or on a river?
You could buy a self inflating life jacket.
You will almost certainly need a licence from the Navigation Authority, and insurance.
BSC will depend on the fit out.
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I saw a little boat the other day, outboard driven, the cabin looked very like a garden hut, with side windows, I'm not clear how he could see to steer, and must struggle to generate enough electricity to charge a phone, OK for few weekends in summer, but absolutely not suitable to liveaboard.
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55 minutes ago, LadyG said:
All the shops will have midge repellant, I think Jungle Juice is favoured, and if its really bad there are nets to cover the face.
Check out the Caledonian sleeper train. Steve Marsh on YouTube will have reviewed them.
Buying Advance Tickets used to save a lot of money, but I find the current journey planners on Trainline and National Rail are a bit unclear about that now.
I seem to recall the options used to be so varied the occasional traveller complained about complexity.
Now it seems there are simply very few options, take it or leave it.
Obviously a Railcard is essential.
Split ticketing is cheaper, make sure you can comply with stated restrictions.
I'm not clear about double sleeper cabins arrangement, but there should be showers at Euston and Inverness.
Check out refund options before you buy the ticket.
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2 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
What is the beam (width) and mast height ?
Whereabouts (which canal, or, which city) do you plan to sail your boat ?
Remember that many of the canals and locks are suitable ONLY for boats measuring UNDER 7 feet wide.
Depth and design important., I've seen a few yachts, sailing yachts with bilge keel and with fixed keel, but these are outliers, refugees from the salty seas, and are on the deep commercial canals, they won't be great canal boats.
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2 hours ago, Bosley Dave said:
Thanks for advice everyone. It's an internal stainless steel tank and only access is through filler pipe/hole. The reason I'm being so careful is that my wife is recovering from a serious illness and has no/limited immune system so I want to be as sure as I can about the safety/cleanliness of the water supply.
The water for tea, coffee, cooking will have been boiled, so no worries.
You can rinse through the tank with a chemical, or bleach until the taste has gone.
When you fill the tank run the water through the hose for two minutes first,, don't drop hose in the canal! Spray and dry hose ends before use if you are concerned they could be contaminated.
I use Pellgrino sparkling for all other drinks, it is definitely free of pesticide residues and mixes with any flavours.
Also wash hands in whb, and rinse off more fastidiously than normal, do this when coming back in to the boat, before food prep and after visiting the loo. Use paper towels to dry hands to avoid multi use towelling which spread germs.
I use paper towels for drying cutlery and plates.
Keep the sink and the loo clean with antibacterial spray, use paper roll. You can take over these tasks from you wife
Use paper towels and antibacterial spray every day on touching surfaces, eg handles, taps etc.
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The only tine i have had a problem with a CRT operator, I suspect a vlockie, i told CRT of the danger, and got a reply indcating training would be carried out.
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5 minutes ago, bizzard said:
The extra special self undoing Mungle Knot.
Nothing wrong with that, it's easily released with removal of the hunting crop, by vertical extraction, then a sharp tug on the bandsman's hitch and a quick under and over.
Or my box knife, formerly known as a Stanley knife applied on the boat side.
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1 hour ago, Momac said:
Being river based and where the locks are somewhat larger than on most canals we always have a rope on bow and stern as per the image below.
This is unlikely to be practical if single handed but worth bearing in mind for those locks where controlling the boat is a challenge.
This raises a Q.
When I was going through a lock on the Aire and Calder [ extra large, powered], a person of unknown heritage on the bank spent several minutes explaining to a newby plastic what he should do. This included him sitting in front of me.
By this time I had entered the lock and taken up position, mid lock, on a sidewall.
I stopped him passing me inside the lock: making it clear with hand signals that he could be behind me. I had left him plenty of room behind me (17tonnes steel nb), we went up river together for a few days, and by that time time he was working, it out for himself. His crew were operating the lock, and watching both boats, and he had stopped tying his bow cleat to anything, particularly the lock ladder .
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11 hours ago, Francis Herne said:
It's always possible for something to go wrong.
For instance those square wooden posts tend to rot/wear just above ground level to leave a tapered slot that's tried to grab my rope.
I don't usually carry a knife, maybe I should. There's one in my 'ticket drawer' though.
When things go wrong, it can happen fast, as in the rapid reversal of my NB in to the rear door resulting in new rudder.
It was discovered that previous owner had cut the rudder stock at some stage and "welded' it back together......
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Google ABNB boats , go to
Information
Boat styles
Lots of info and photos
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Just now, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
Why?
Well, there is a rare chance I might need to cut a rope if it jams and the boat cants over, also I have seen a newby tying his plastic boat tight to a bollard before dropping the level, that's not going to end well
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Marina investigations and planning?
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Posted · Edited by LadyG
If money us not an issue you are living in a happy little bubble.
However the fact is things can change.
You may potter along for thirty years, by which time your boat costing £65K has rusted, still £65K
The little house in the Dales might cost £250K today, but be valued at £3.5 MILLION by then.
But i can't afford to give you £8.700 , my pension is about £12K.
I'd expect to get water in any flat, I assume you mean cost of water and sewage.
My flat was not in a bad area, it was built in the 1960's so no insulation, and the neighbour was an alcoholic,
You've not had a bad neighbour.
PS I don't waste my time having an attitude to you, I will disagree with you if I feel inclined.
You are not on my ignore list so some of your posts must have some value.