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Thanks! Just checked their prices for services too. Cheaper than sailing, but bloody hell it adds up eh? Lol the cost of boat ownership!

Great info all around. Thanks! Over to the map! Good thing I am not colour blind! ?

Hahaha yeah, sailing can be a lot of work, when you have no choice but to hoist the rags! And all that leaning!! ? that’s why we want a canal boat, not another sailboat.

Re Visas: Yeah, being Canadian I can stay for 6 months, my partner has dual citizenship. thanks for the map! Will go back to the canal river trust site and look at it differently with this new information ! how “ feasible” is it to be on her part time? We are thinking , on the hard for the winter, and being on her early spring to fall? i guess also, without a mooring, you can leave her for a month, right?

Do you live aboard both? Shuttling time between the two?

Ok so- where do WB boats cruise? Just the rivers? Is there a river map link someone can point me to? Narrowboats seem so well— ummm narrow!?? WB are like apartments! How feasible is it to cruise rivers? Do rivers hook up with canals? And...how many boats do you have??!!??

Ahh ok thanks for the comparison. My sail boat is 38’ long with a beam of 12 ft. From what I have read, some very long boats have trouble in some canals?

Hey All Female, Canadian . Sailor. Thinking of buying a canal boat to live on - part time. Since I live part time in a sailboat, I know the broo haha about small space/ managing poop and water and hydro. I get the romantic idea that people have that living on a sailboat is about tropical beaches, bikini clad beauties and dolphins swimming along your bow. As if! Questions: 1) I imagine that there is also a romantic ideal about live aboard on a canal boat? If so, what is it? What’s the down and dirty for canal boats? 2) Also- I am part of a team, so my partner and I are thinking of a shorter ( <50 ft) widebeam. (Cruising North and South separately- I get that you can’t do move from one to another without a truck. ) make sense? 3) How feasible is part time cruising? doesn’t matter where the boat is moored as we are interested in the journey, not the destination. Thanks!!