dharryman

Thanks for the reply, I think I’ll have a pop down after work today. It doesn’t explicitly state that the mooring is transferable, I guess that makes it harder to sell on if we need to move at some point?

I don’t think they look great, but where else can you stay close to Oxford hassle free?

Guess that means I’d be silly not having a punt on a bid for it then?

Hi Carlt, This could work! The bid runs out pretty soon though and we're still in quite early stages, it's only 42ft long so we'd have to get a smaller boat than we had planned, but as these don't come up that often we could just just go for it. One thing if you can though, they say it has a "Starting Price of £1,729.98 (inc. VAT) per year" do they typically go for this or is it a bit/lot more than that? Thanks, Dan

Hello! This is my first post to this forum, I've been reading a few guides for what I'm looking for, but thought it best to just ask the canal community. Myself and my wife are looking at getting a live aboard narrow boat (approx 50ft or so). My wife works in Oxford, and my time is split between Oxford, Didcot, and Egham. As such I was wondering how hard it would be for us to be continuous cruisers going between oxford, didcot and perhaps reading? Is it difficult to find places we can find 2 week mooring. Essentially I'm trying to work out if this would be a feasible lifestyle for us? Alternatively, how much do permanent moorings costs in these areas, I've seen some that are up to around £500 a month. This is out of our price range, but I was wondering if the moorings that are further away from a city are any cheaper? Any help or advice any of you could give will be greatly appreciated, all in all, we'd love to become members of the boating community, but just want to make sure we know what we're signing up for first. Thanks, Dan