toomanyairmiles

Very useful, thank you again. I don't have much experience, but I'm planning to take the relevant courses to learn. When it comes to living space I suspect I'm making unrealistic demands on my budget, the canal network and the types of boat available to me. It seems like I my best course is to try a narrowboat or a dutch steel cruiser and save!

I need to be in London only 3 to 6 months a year, for the rest of the time I work from home. What I had in mind was moving about a fair bit through the canal network, but I'm also interested in sailing coastal waters eventually. This particular boat meets the draught (1.02m), can handle coastal water, but the cabin is too tall and not collapsable, unfortunately.

Thank you. Extremely useful, if somewhat disheartening.

Hi everyone, I'm a novice to boating... I'm considering purchasing a dutch barge (currently in the Netherlands) to use as a continuous cruising liveaboard in the London area, it's 3.5 metres wide, but has a vertical clearance of 2.75 metres. I'm wondering how limiting that clearance is going to be when moving around?