Mr Pomplemousse

Certainly possible to live on a boat and have a full time 9-5, but it does change you in ways a house/flat never could. In winter you'll invariably have to be home after work to run the engine or genny to give your batteries enough charge to see them through the night. No more cheeky after work pints and such as you only have till 8pm to run your engine and the cost of getting it wrong and ruining your batteries is considerable in every sense. Water and toilets are a ball and chain and require a decent plan if they are not going to dictate your life. Then you've got moving to satisfy CC requirements which again requires a workable plan and the right day to execute it. Being in a marina will help you out with alot of these issues, you just have to weigh up the cost of the marina with the money saved and other benefits of CCing. I live in London/Herts as a CCer and have adapted well to the challenges faced, but have also been helped out by an employer who understands that sometimes my boat will get in the way of my work on occasion and that my first loyalty is to my boat (and cats) Without having a employer with a degree of flexibility would make the task very hard for me. PS: Get the boat before you partner up again, helps sort the wheat from the chaff.

Fridge went on Valentines day and almost killed the battery while i wasn't looking. Since then its got to temperature and been fine, plenty of solar even on overcast days. Managed to run my PS4 for a couple of hours in good sunlight on Saturday when I should have been out enjoying the first day of Spring but couldn't muster the effort to get dressed.

Agree with the little chance of the Police getting involved. The stories about people getting pulled over and grilled are whipped up by the media and used to get compliance. I've travelled legitimately throughout all lockdowns for work, food shopping and childcare issues and never seen anymore people getting stopped by the Police than you'd normally expect to see. I think if in doubt, put a bag of tools in the car and if stopped bambozle the officers with some boat talk about exploding composting toilets, thefts, sinkings, fraying ropes etc and they soon leave you to it.