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Thank you all for your input and I seem to have caused more arguments again! We have decided to keep her where she is with a temporary mooring for now. Its only a 21/2 drive up so all being well with survey and purchase we can spend every other weekend ferrying bits and pieces up, getting to know her and make local trips. Then we are going to take two-three weeks in spring when Crofton is open and enjoy a leisurely holiday (if the weather is anything like the last few years it will be nice...yes I have now jinxed it...sorry!)

Yes we need to pass Crofton on route B 😫

Hello again. So I am thinking ahead and bought copies of the Nicholson Waterways Guides and checked the RCR Route Planner (if the boat we are viewing all goes ahead as planned). Unfortuantely the RCR planner has us getting to the Kennet and Avon via the Severn Estuary and I even as a newbie I know thats not something you do in a narrow boat! So short of putting her on the road, which himself doesn't want to do, I have looked at two possible routes via the Canal and River Trust websites. They are a bit long winded but I cannot see any other way around it... Option 1) up the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, onto the North Stratford Canal, Grand Union, Oxford Canal then onto the Thames and finally the Kennet and Avon (I dont fancy this due to the Wast Hill Tunnel) Option 2) down the Worcester and Birmingham to Tewkesbury then up the Avon to South Stratford Canal, Grand Union, Oxford, Thames, Kennet and Avon (I know this seems a bit round the wreakin but...) I have also googled joinging the Oxford canal and the Thames and that sound srather alarming too. Any advice will be warmly accepted...especially if there is a better route plnner out there!

Ahhh thank you...sorry missed that one in all the hullabaloo 😄 the boat is up Worcester way

Hi, I have not been scared off 😆 I just wasnt sure whether brokers provided a list of surveyors who I would then contact or if I had to just search for random surveyors (I had correctly guessed not to trust a broker offering a surveyor in much the same way I would be suspicious of a dodgy garage and MOT's!). We are going to view it next weekend, a slight delay as I am off to Scotland on Friday, and we are obviously not daft enough to buy something without viewing and as my partners brother lives on his near Bath we know what size we want. Anyway apologies for starting an argument

Hello everyone and I am happy to be here! We have the funds in place for our new adventure and I would love your experince in confirming our next stage. We have found a boat that is listed both on Apollo Duck and with a broker-do we make an offer subject to the all important survey and do we find a surveyor? thank you