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https://moneyweek.com/investments/property/600826/living-on-a-houseboat-the-pros-and-cons-of-a-floating-home

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The boats also have to be taken to a dry dock every five years; the owners need to move out for two weeks while the hull is scraped and the exterior repainted. 

Nope, never done this in our 21 years living aboard.

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3 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

Depends on the drydock you use.

 

Quite a few have been slapped by the safety elf until they gave in and now refuse to let you live on your boat onsite.  They tend not to get too many liveaboards using their services ...

Yes, we have come across this.Just find another that allows it. The day we can't find any that do is the day the boat gets sold.

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14 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

Depends on the drydock you use.

 

Quite a few have been slapped by the safety elf until they gave in and now refuse to let you live on your boat onsite.  They tend not to get too many liveaboards using their services ...

Won't mention the one we used then. Didn't live aboard but drydock was close to home and not the best of places so made sense to stay aboard when we blacked

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20 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

The Week/MoneyWeek can be interesting but you have to tip toe through a fair whack of waffle sometimes, never thought I'd see a narrowboat in their investment section though. Ms Merida's other by line for today is about a Sunseeker Hawk 38 so she's going for a very boaty valentines. 

 

https://moneyweek.com/spending-it/toys/600809/sunseekers-alarmingly-rapid-superboat

 

 

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1 minute ago, ditchcrawler said:

Fox's is the only place we couldn't stay onboard so far, but that was on a trailer and slipway.

We used to stay onboard at fox's til some numpty fell off a ladder and that put an end to that! They then stopped DIY altogether.

 

Maybe the reporter was right after all, it will soon all become a thing of the past.

1 minute ago, Tumshie said:

The Week/MoneyWeek can be interesting but you have to tip toe through a fair whack of waffle sometimes, never thought I'd see a narrowboat in their investment section though. Ms Merida's other by line for today is about a Sunseeker Hawk 38 so she's going for a very boaty valentines. 

 

https://moneyweek.com/spending-it/toys/600809/sunseekers-alarmingly-rapid-superboat

 

 

Not forgetting this one too:

 

https://moneyweek.com/investments/property/600826/living-on-a-houseboat-the-pros-and-cons-of-a-floating-home/i-spent-six-months-living-on-a-houseboat-in-london-heres-what-i-learned

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18 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

Depends on the drydock you use.

 

Quite a few have been slapped by the safety elf until they gave in and now refuse to let you live on your boat onsite.  They tend not to get too many liveaboards using their services ...

Was there not a serious, almost, case a few years back?

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1 minute ago, Mike Todd said:

Was there not a serious, almost, case a few years back?

There have been a few in fairly recent times.  Certainly those that caused deaths put a huge damper on DIY dry docks. 

 

The "good" dry docks did an upgraded Risk Assessment and started insisting on things like well secured proper walkways, not just a chunk of rotten scaffold board. 

 

The "bad" dry docks just shrugged and said "Try not to kill yourself in there!". ;)

 

The rest of them just outright banned DIY access or living on the boat while in the dock.  

 

In many cases it will have been a commercial decision, not an H&S one - I expect liability insurance went up quite a bit when there were a few high profile cases including fatalities.

 

The other thing is that a busy dry dock who can keep themselves full of paid work are going to prefer that to a DIY bloke scrounging brushes off them ...

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23 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

I prefer Monevator, though he doesn't do much on boats:

 

https://monevator.com/

I came across this the other day but it's probbly more for the newly initiated - well it is, but worth a peek and a link for anybody thinking of exploring these sorts of avenues. 

 

https://plainenglishfinance.co.uk

 

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