Kat79

Thanks Alan, the dream is rapidly becoming an obsession, the thought of being free to go where you want when you want, no more horrific neighbours (ongoing dispute over past 3 years in which our cat was shot with bb bullet and had to go to vets, stones being thrown over the back gate at the dog until she was too scared to go in back garden alone, our garage graffitied, every car we’ve owned being scratched and scraped and dented I could go on police have done nothing but give us a crime number each time) plus the cost of living where we are is too much, oh I hope we can get a boat

Thanks Rusty

Hi everyone, my names Kat and my husband is Pete, I wouldn’t say we’re new to boating... yet, we are at the very early stages of wanting and saving for a boat, came across this forum on google and I must say it is an invaluable source of information on any question that has cropped up, while searching everywhere online at every narrowboat for sale. Pete and I have a very ambitious (perhaps a lottle bit naive if honest) dream, of buying a cheap doer upper, and building fitting it around us, as a live aboard constant cruiser, Pete is very mechanically minded and dreamed of owning his own boat for about 40 odd years+, I’m a crafter who whole heartedly has fallen in love with the idea of creating my own fittings and furnishings as well as help Pete whenever needed. We are never going to be in a situation where we can buy our own house, and live in rented accommodation, it loathes us to pay rent and have likened it many times to throwing money down the drain. So if we’re skint how can we afford it? Over the past 15 years we have accumulated a huge amount of ‘stuff’ motorbikes, excess tools, craft stuff no longer used or needed, which we plan to sell off to raise our boat fund (thus not getting into debt for our dream) as well as downsizing in preparation of moving aboard, once completed (if we manage to get that far which I hope we do) we want to travel around England wales Scotland. Funds may be tight but enthusiasm is endless