bmandce

Hi once again Thought you had scared us off did you? Not so easy to do I'm afraid. We have listened to your advice - thought about it long and hard, read some more, done some more research (thanks for the links Churchward) and generally mulled! The upshot of which is that we have booked our flights and will be on our way in late February. Alea iacta est! We have made a number of appointments to see boats and still have a broker or two to contact. Our non-negotiables are now a "starting point" and hopefully we can be a bit flexible. As you say, it's the wow factor that's important, as well as layout. Thaks for all the advice and comments. However, we are not finished yet and might well be back with some technical questions. Cheers bmandce

Thank you Chris, Athy and Wrinkley. Some interesting and helpful replies. We will continue to build up a list of boats to look at on our trip in Feb/March. We have a few non-negotiables that we require in our "future home". eg 58' to 60', shower not bath, pumpout not cassette, min 4'6" double. We would like to do a large amount of Cruising, possibly even CC (maybe not in winter the first year - which means a Winter mooring). Any comments or advice?? bmandce

That is the conundrum - the boat in question appears to be reasonably priced in comparison, but has been on the market for a while - one wonders why!!!

Oops! Did not intend to cause dissention or ruffle any feathers! This is our first post and having read how helpful the forum can be, we decided to ask what we thought would be a simple question. It is a genuine query, as we do not want to commit ourselves to a "lemon" or to waste resources pursuing an avenue that is not feasible. Thanks for your comments, bargeeboy.

Hi All We are from abroad and new members to the forum. We have holidayed on narrowboats several times and have been smitten!! On retirement later this year, we plan to buy and live aboard a(n?) nb. We have been "trolling" the For Sale sites and have found a number that we would consider buying. We plan to fly over to the UK in late Feb / early March to follow up on them. One of these is a J M Clarke build. We do not know anything about the quality of this builder/fitter. Can anyone out there help or advise? Thanks, Brian and Cecilia