paddy r

all that grass cutting

Thanks for the kind words,feel like a kid in a toy shop,Thanks to Purple fairie and smudge for putting up with all the pain in the bum daft question,s there more to come Paddy

Right i love my engine(don't tell the wife she starting to look at me funny),It's a hrw 2 and i'm trying to find a age to it.The No i've got 'r 191hw2m18 hope this helps thanks Paddy yes Smudge it blows lovely smoke rings :lol:

After 20 years of can we, will we, what if,we have sold our house, got our boat to live on and are happy as peas in a pod . We are going to try and get her (kismet) back to Lincolnshire but we are stuck at whilton untill the 13th march so we have time to get to know her.Don't post on here much but always read all the post as its world of info,thank you all. Paddy and Ruth

We are looking at two NB one is 65 and 70,We need the space as we have a 17 year old son staying with for a year before he goes to uni.Not sure we would go for anything smaller than 55 /56 odd if we were on our own.Reading all the post it seems that as long as you are willing to think about where you are going its fine in a 70 footer, Thanks again for all your comments,

Not sure about the Boat world (i work on car engines)but i was allways told that a batt showing less than 12.6 was dead!It will still start your car but it will let you down when you need it most!

Last christmas on land so only have a 4 foot tree,all the other deckies have gone to local school; (wife works there) .That will give the cleaners something to moan about

Thay are both trads,was going to go over to gas st for a look,whent there when i was a kid,(lived in Derby and did canals for my History CSE ,you can tell i never did good english) was a bit of a sh*t hole then but thay tell me it's all nice and clean now.

thanks for all the reply's,Draft is something i did not think about We need to go from Lincolnshire down to the kennet & Avon at some point but would like to go the long way round,We will be in No rush,get there when we get there sort of thing.Any more pointers please, thanks Paddy

Do you have any prob's staying at marina's,I hear that some of them don't like 70' boats,Not planing on staying in one for more than a few nights maybe a week.

V Good food at the white Horse,and beer

Thanks for that. Just trying to get some background,before spending money on a survey.

Right, have my Tin hat on so here goes, We plan to buy a boat and live on it, go pottering around for a few years and just go with the flow. We like two boats both narrow beam, No1 is 61 feet ticks all the box's, power, fit out etc., No 2 is 70 feet and also ticks all the box's. We know that there are a number of cuts that we cannot get on with this size but would just like to ask if the pro's out weigh the cons. thanks paddy

This place is full of good answer to some of the daft questions i have,Yes there is a lot of banter going on but I rather like the banter and bickering,There is always two sides to a story.I,m a big lad and if i do not like what i read i stop reading it.

needs bigger Hammer

Thanks for all the reply's i didn't post this question but its one of the many on my list.

Mr daily and minder spring to mind, just need a sheep skin coat

we did and it was

that makes us mad aswell?But we have a pair of pants on my head as well as the pencils up each nostril.the boat we wanted someone put a offer in so we're of to look at another.

THANKS going over there on sunday from lincolnshire to look at 3 boats,Might not bother now!

Hello, we are Ruth and Richard (Paddy - don't ask it's a long story)with youngest son Ryan (16). The house is on the market, just, and the search has begun for a live aboard narrowboat. We have become disillusioned with our current work lifestyles and fancied a complete change! Both our Dads had boats so we've sort of had it in the background, so now it came to the crunch when Ryan got his GCSE results and we realised that we did not have to do the 'normal' things anymore. Richard's attitude was 'one life , live it', mine 'what about all our stuff, my job, getting Ryan to College', etc etc. So are we mad or doing what we should be doing at 40 something? We have researched as much as humanly possible but if we have missed something, I think we'll find the answer here. Very interesting forum, thank you Ruth and Richard