wine_scribbler

well my budget includes £150 travel a month so the nearer I am to Didcot the bigger the mooring budget!

I'm on the cusp of buying a 44ft narrowboat for permanent residental use - from what I read finding a residental mooring is the first priority. Being new I have a few questions. (Constant cruising is an option) What I need is a location with a rail link to Didcot (a cycle ride to a station is fine) - so anywhere I guess from Banbury to Henley should be OK. But I only have a monthly budget of £150 for mooring. Is this unrealistic? The Marina at Caversham/Reading is nearly double this for example so that rules them out. What are the options? How do you actually find/book a mooring? I have the British Waterways pdf open in front of me but how do I find where these places actually are and find out if they have spaces? (I am sure this is a dumb question...)