Skin

Oh I'm loving this, right up my street and so nice to see a different and heartfrlt design, Arthur Lee would have approved, thanks for the link

Hi All I'm Mark and together with my other half Sarah we are looking to embark on the next stage of our lives and start living on a narrowboat, myself full time and Sarah part time. We have a budget of around £100,000 and a whole shedload of questions before we rush starry eyed to our nearest broker and hand over our life savings. Here,is a list of requirements for the boat and my question is, is it possible?, has anyone seen something like this? and if so what would be the price point? and finally am I mad? OK, as we would like to travel all the network I'm looking at a 58' foot boat with the following - Lots of power, I'm a photographer who uses a desktop CPU system as well running a blog and my other half grows chilis and St Johns Wort hydropically in a grow tent under a single 600w HPS buld that needs to run around 12hrs a day and a smaller CFL lamp at 125w which runs at 16 to 18 hrs a day, as well as the ususal TV possible bow thrusters, radio etc, so what sort of power would I need to run that lot?, a generator teamed with solar?, massed banks of batteries? - Fitting, One of our pet peeves is narrowboats with interiors that look like 80s styled flats, all glittery worktops, we want to feel like we are living on a boat and an old one at that, dark recliamed aged wood, antiqued brass fittings, a cross between an old wooden motorboat and the nautilus (is any of this making sense?) could anyone point us in the direction of someone who is willing to deviate from the narrowboat interior norm? - Propulsion, we both like the idea of a quiet electric drive or even a biofuel powered engine? are either solutions viable at the current time? (I plan to be on a constant cruising licence and be travelling a LOT) - Paintwork, I see so so many of the same colors and designs on UK narrowboats, is anyone doing custom paintjobs?, is it frowned upon?, we know through our work quite a few artists and a couple are interested in doing a full airbrushed finish, but not if we are going to get egged and booed at every overnight stop, a strange question I know Right I will leave it there otherwise the question list will grow exponentially, thanks for reading and as my other half is leaning over my shoulder remarking "They are going to think this is a joke" I assure you that it's not I'll try to attach some shots to illustrate my ramblings

Hi everyone I'm skin aka Mark, and along with my other half we are looking to embark on a new chapter in our lives and buy our first boat. Sooooo many questions you'll be quite sick of me Cheers Skin