enigmatic

I'm well aware I may have dodged a bullet! Still, the original purchaser may have had too high expectations and it is at least 5k less now and just about in the OP's budget, so always worth finding out whether it's a case of the original buyer expectations being too high or whether it needs 5k+ of overplating work doing (run a mile at that price!)

Also in your budget at Aqueduct is Reflections. On the market since September, when it was priced 5k higher and looks superficially in good condition (I actually might have put an offer in if I hadn't seen ghe boat I ultimately bought 30 mins later). Since then it's had a survey. Did you find out what was wrong with it?

Can't imagine they're going to waste time and money pursuing people that like to take regular trips up and down the canal their mooring's on and stay at all their favourite villages in the area, as opposed to someone arguing they can stay within a small stretch of Regents Canal because they've got a mooring on the Lancaster

If it had a back boiler, the 40 mins incineration time might be a positive...

I like the theory, but in addition to the scary prices, you only get about 70 flushes per gas bottle...

Lack of places to empty your toilet is certainly one of the issues on the Great Ouse. That and most of the moorings having 48hr limits on them, especially near the towns, It's just as much of a pain to get an NHS dentist using family members' fixed addresses as on a boat!

I find it much more useful as a "how far, what to expect, any interesting navigation notes or suggestions on moorings" than for timings. Sometimes a flight of locks is in your favour and sometimes it isn't and there are other boats holding you up. Some locks take longer to fill and are more of a pain with gate than others. Sometimes there's a long line of moored boats, fragile banks or a lot of bends and sometimes you can hit the speed limit quite happily. I've beaten it handsomely and I've taken almost double the default times before, IIRC the Environment Agency's suggested times