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Oh, yes. My mooring is perfectly secure enough to prevent almost all casual towpath based crime and is offside and off-line (in a little basin off the main canal). So, whilst technically accessible by boat, it is pretty obvious to lots of overlooking neighbours when you pull in (they pop out and help you moor as it is very tight!). Dogs provide some alarm features too. So, yes, only want alarm for the specific reasons. And probably won't bother when cruising as boat currently without name painted on/possibly not that distinctive to a non-boater. @magpie patrickpicked up on one of the reasons I want it above - small ppl need to feel there is a safety mechanism :-)

Goodness it is peaceful! At present am very appreciative of assistance as am entirely new to all this... but the feeling of steering one's own boat is fabulous. Just have to master mooring and locks solo and I'll be off!

Ah this is for home mooring (only probably as that is where specific individual wd be looking for us), not cruising really. Apparently we have dubious honour of qualifying for a funded one - was impressed authorities were able to find boat-friendly one actually (will take a look when it arrives)... but have also found some which will operate like door bell or alarm depending on setting so will have handy (but not too loud) effect of letting me know if the little one makes any late night excursions onto deck ?

Well, arrived to find a widebeam on each of the four spots... and we found out you can tuck a (70'!) narrowboat in beside. So, channel widebeam pontoon arm widebeam narrowboat bank Thank you to the other moorees for assisting with winding, in and out - was about as tight as it gets!

Ah, handy to know ? Silly question... There is space to turn around here? 70ft (with entirely inexperienced steerer) boat... Don't fancy having to reverse all the way back to the main part of the canal! Edited to add - canal planner does say you can, just slightly uncertain given how tight it all sounds

Thanks @DaveP. I managed to pay for one of these today (for use Sat) so am hoping booking system is the thing to go by :-) Did notice inconsistent dates on site regarding other places tho mind.

Is it fairly obvious (signed?) which these are? Presumably they stay empty until a booked in person moors there (unlike some winter moorings I believe?!?). Wanting to make sure I end up in the right spot as am not familiar with Paddington. I appreciate the idea that all visitor moorings are pre-paid via licensing (cf road tax/parking spaces really) but have booked one of these for a night as am uncertain of finding a space nearby before dark cruising my new boat for the first time.

If that is how you care to spend your not-quite 3a.m.s I'm cool with it. :-) If you'd care to branch out into proof reading my professional correspondence then I'd pay in beer (and NDAs). 8-) Yep, rubbery stuff (honey comb or spotted).

Mechanic of my boat's previous owners before I bought it? (New boat to me). Is home mooring for both boats and all are tied together. Not much space between the two boats at present (only just enough for those tube shaped fenders). Facilities on pontoon so have to carry hoses etc between boats to wherever out/inlets are. Was faffing as carrying in narrow gap (not much tumblehome on either so approx 2*gunwale space for self and hoses) so was a few min but not overly jumpy. Ho hum. I need to hop onto boats each side both to untie me and also re-tie them to each other. I can feel it when a boat 5 or so along unties but it hasn't bothered me yet. Feel vaguely tempted to give some of that non-slip draw lining stuff for xmas but may not be taken in spirit intended. ?

Fair enough. Was first time I was doing it as holding hose etc - when it is just me I do just use mine.

Yep. Think they may have been using the glass thing. I was surprised at how *little* movement (am not remotely brave and so quite cautious, plus it was only one foot, the other was on my gunwale) but assume there will have been some and caused by me.

See, what I love about this forum is that I read the subject line as being basically the anti-batton-twirlers' association... and now I find it is about sprouts! (Which, clearly, should be bought on the stem for 'light sabre' purposes / made into delicious winterval salads after light steaming...). (In case anyone was wondering... Neither of their pet ramps look particularly useful for pontoon->trad stern terrier ingress. (Angles are more automobile -oriented). And one of them costs as much as a new terrier...)

I've just bought a boat outside London and am paying to have it driven down/craned in (cost less than 2k but not from as far afield are you're thinking of). It has also been blacked, again, less than 2k but a fair amount of your budget... I had two surveyed and so again, cost less than 2k but a fair bit more than 1k. Plus I travelled out of London for each at some cost... In London the boat (newly blacked and surveyed and with a couple of strings of twinkly lights added for say 15quid) could (possibly) sell for 5k more than I bought it for. But I've spent very close to that getting it here (and even if you were steering yours down that is cruising time you're not doing paid graphics work during and diesel etc so has to be valued at something) . I've bought a couple of boats recently so have a reasonably good idea of the current market in my price/length/beam range. There might well be a larger percentage margin on shorter/cheaper/wider boats that aren't already largely white/grey inside. But even people with much smaller budgets are routinely recommended to get (hull) surveys done - join yourself to any London Facebook group to see examples of this. So, I'd think you'd probably need rather more investment to increase the value significantly once you'd got over then initial 'gain' from location/interior colour scheme. Edited to add: what there is a BIG demand for in London is moorings. Most people with a healthy budget can travel/pay for boat delivery and those without a healthy budget are more likely to have the time to travel AND steer their own boat down. Obviously there are exceptions. If you can get your 'done up' boat onto a mooring within a reasonable distance of London/buy a boat to do up on such a mooring you might want to see if those figures look more healthy. There were a couple I saw on quite desirable moorings which would probably have gone quicker with a not-too-different boat.

So, today a boat neighbour popped out and said that when I/someone helping me'd put a foot on their boat (boats moored side by side, tied together - not by me, I needed to get to a cap on my gunwale between us and had had one foot on their gunwale whilst attending to it) a glass item had dropped off their work surface and broken. I'm a small-medium sized adult and was being helped by an also medium sized adult, we weren't both there at the same time and weren't, I think, walking particularly heavily. Put it this way - on my boat none of the dozen(+) champagne flutes standing loose on a shelf had moved. (Yes, I live like that ?). I walk down my gunwales (and just mine as usually not faffing with hoses) every day to unlock boat and haven't broken anything yet. I apologised and offered to pay for the item to be neighbourly/frankly was busy and needed to get going anyway so wanted to conclude the conversation nicely but quickly. But curious about the etiquette... Should one keep both feet on own boat or is it usually acceptable to pop a foot on each? The other residents on the neighbour boat are friendly and I'm not sure if this one was _expecting_ me to offer to pay - but I wasn't sure what else to say? I did let them know when will need to be untying us... hopefully they can help and any wobbles will then be a joint enterprise!

Just for @Mike the Boilerman I shall take great pleasure in pointing out that a Liebherr FF has independently controllable F and F temp settings - I feel fabulously middle aged.

To complicate matters slightly... (Midland) Swindlers now deliver to Argos' the length and breadth via their eBay listings... Having said that a) many ppl boat further from their nearest argos than me b) I fully intend to replace my 'kind of OK' 230v Hotpoint with a flipping lovely AAA, or close to it, Leibherr because they are a tactile joy

What do you pop in the dish to attract the birds? :-)

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If this is the boat I think it is it is a transferable mooring on the non-towpath side with fees of just less than 10k/yr. Which is fractionally cheaper than Kings Cross and also for a medium length wide beam rather than narrowboats only. If it is that boat then the premium appears to be closer to 100k (based on a quick search for similar boats without moorings) which is more in-line with what you'd expect. I'm not familiar with the paperwork for those ones though so unsure how much security your transferability gets you. I suspect the original poster has just slightly over-estimated the the value of the boat/underestimated the value of the mooring when they've divided up the total.

Ah... Haggerston is quite different to Kings Cross! (Some would say in a good way). Not at all sure how much moorings there are worth... There is a fair amount of cultural stuff in/around the canal there but it sounds a bit more like house share "looking for someone to become a full part of the community" - is there an interview (there are for some places)? Could effect resale value (possibly in either direction). Edited to add: I'm not familiar with widebeam pricing but a quick search indicates your premium may be more along the lines of 100k. e.g. this one is a couple of yrs newer and 99k cheaper (than the one I assume you're thinking of) https://www.apolloduck.com/boat/elton-moss-boatbuilders-55-widebeam/621018 Which is more like Kings Cross prices, although you don't get many wide beam berths there so you could argue it is only half of KC prices if you look at square footage rather than length of mooring.

Ah, (more towards Camden - the Kings Cross itself ones are generally CRT except for the co-op type arrangements...?), for that, yes, you're right to be more cautious. Check paperwork v thoroughly... Edited to add: also facilities/hook-ups etc - the CRT and co-op style ones are good. Less familiar with the others...

All the boats will be privately owned. If the current boat owners rent the mooring from CRT you need to check if it is transferable or not. There are some of each.

In that area that is a bargain! Depending on the length of the boat the mooring could be worth a lot more than that. (And, if it is Leo it is a really rather lovely boat too - I know one or two others around there too so feel free to ask...). What you need to check is that it is one of the historic transferable moorings rather than a 'normal' CRT one which goes into an auction when it changes hands. It could be a private/co-operative one and those, although potentially transferable, may or may not be as secure as a CRT one where if you follow the rules you should be fine. PS Boaters are very friendly, helpful and welcoming - it will be fun!

https://nwedible.com/how-to-use-pee-in-your-garden/ Most of these applications are not 'tip a whole cassette load in one place, repeatedly'.

With a leasehold, if enough of you get together, you can do 'right to manage' (even if you don't do 'right to buy' on the freehold bit) and have the fun and games of arranging your own services. Doubt that applies here so you'd be looking at finding a new mooring and craning... CRT do do 'houseboat' licenses and there are certainly other big enough moorings around. So, _in theory_ market forces apply? Albeit with high transaction costs...