Thinking about buying a boat

[Machpoint005]

Watership Down had Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig and several other anthropomorphic leporids, IIRC.

 

 

[Jerra]

22 minutes ago, IanD said:

Thumper was a rabbit in Bambi -- as I'd have thought most people would have known, not just @MtB's mum ! -- who said "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" 🙂

Isn't that a double negative?   Which means you should say something, are we sure that is the wording?

 

I would think:

"If you can't say something nice, say nothing at all"

 

Would be more appropriate.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Jerra said:

Isn't that a double negative?   Which means you should say something, are we sure that is the wording?

 

I would think:

"If you can't say something nice, say nothing at all"

 

Would be more appropriate.

 

I could be wrong but being a Disney cartoon I don't think the scriptwriters adhered to fully correct grammar.

 

 

Edited December 19, 2023 by MJG

[IanD]

10 minutes ago, Jerra said:

Isn't that a double negative?   Which means you should say something, are we sure that is the wording?

 

I would think:

"If you can't say something nice, say nothing at all"

 

Would be more appropriate.

Regardless of correctness (even in 'murica), it's what Thumper said in Bambi... 😉

 

 

Edited December 19, 2023 by IanD

[magnetman]

This doesn't apply here because text is not speech.

 

It should be 'if you can't type something nice (terrible word needs replacing with a synonym like pleasant) then don't type anything at all.

 

 

Studying the level of abrasiveness of various different internet forum contributors must be an quite an interesting subject.

[Tracy D'arth]

2 hours ago, magnetman said:

Studying the level of abrasiveness of various different internet forum contributors must be an quite an interesting subject.

I am about an 80s grit today, the head hurts.

I will be into the hospice sometime in the new year I think.

Edited December 19, 2023 by Tracy D'arth

[magnetman]

17 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

 diesel to get to the pumpout which will probably cost £20 a time.

Cor that pumpout station must be a long way away !!

[sigsegv]

@Isher1883 Hope you stick around mate. Once you've got enough posts, feel free to DM me and we can have a chat - as another relatively younger boater (well... 34...) that moved aboard a year and a half ago, I can probably give some relevant and useful information about the transition to life on the water.

[Willonaboat]

5 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:

Do I care?  The world is full of muppets, they seem to migrate to here and boats.

 

Charming!

 

May I recommend a book? https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0091906814

 

[Bee]

Check the costs involved, licence, moorings insurance, survey for the Boat safety scheme and much more, It is expensive, it can be lonely, It is certainly muddy in winter and the legal situation re continously moving and living on board in Marinas and suchlike is always tricky. Not sure if I would recommend it  these days but then buying or renting a house is not so great either, I think I would try to keep my head down and live in a box van or something. One thing is for sure though, if you do buy a boat it is yours to do what you wish with and although the waterways might not have been built for  living on many hundreds if not thousands live on boats and why not?

[danshorty]

21 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:

Here we go again.   There are dozens of similar threads on here and many sensible answers. Can I suggest that instead of expecting us all to go through it again you use the search function and read some of those threads first then come back to us?

 

Residential moorings are controlled by unicorns and run by chickens with teeth. 

 

[danshorty]

You have spent the time to read and reply to a post that you say you don't want to read and reply to so is it not easier to ignore it instead of trying to embarrass this person.my mum rip it doesn't hurt to ask,but obviously it does.maybe this person is looking for a phoenix 

[Tracy D'arth]

1 hour ago, Willonaboat said:

 

Charming!

 

May I recommend a book? https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0091906814

 

Read it, its rubbish as you know.

I really cannot be bothered what your opinion is.  I have re-read my original post and I think you are being deliberately obtuse, it was not rude but it was to the point.  It was humorous if you have a sense of humour.

 

If you all cannot live with that, tough. I do not care.

[Willonaboat]

53 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:

Read it, its rubbish as you know.

I really cannot be bothered what your opinion is.  I have re-read my original post and I think you are being deliberately obtuse, it was not rude but it was to the point.  It was humorous if you have a sense of humour.

 

If you all cannot live with that, tough. I do not care.

 

Clearly!

 

[agg221]

7 hours ago, IanD said:

Thumper was a rabbit in Bambi -- as I'd have thought most people would have known, not just @MtB's mum ! -- who said "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" 🙂

I thought Bambi and Thumper were assigned to guard Willard Whyte...

 

Alec

Edited December 19, 2023 by agg221

[BilgePump]

How the fork did this thread get so nasty? OP asked about specific mooring area and logistics. Not easy to do but not impossible, but we've got people from many miles away arguing about nonsense.

[LadyG]

1 minute ago, BilgePump said:

How the fork did this thread get so nasty? OP asked about specific mooring area and logistics. Not easy to do but not impossible, but we've got people from many miles away arguing about nonsense.

As always the first few posts answered the question.

[BilgePump]

4 minutes ago, LadyG said:

As always the first few posts answered the question.

But did they? Who on this thread has a mooring in the area the OP is talking about? Who can advise with confidence? I know a few people who could but they are not craptalkking on this thread.

[Ewan123]

Let's say that someone decides to jump into living on a boat because they like the sound of the life/it sounds financially attractive. After a winter or so they then say "Yikes, that was an awful idea and I don't really enjoy it - let's sell the boat and move back to land". They might lose money on the boat, or they might even break even or make a small profit (boat prices can be rather variable).

 

When they're back on land, they've probably got at least some stories to remember and laugh at "How daft was that idea!?"

Is that really so bad? To have a go at something, have an experience, probably learn something and then move on with life.

Some people seem set on dissuading others from giving it a go, as if the experience could only be detrimental. Why is this? Is it just "I don't want all these new people cluttering up my canals!"? 

[kevinl]

53 minutes ago, BilgePump said:

How the fork did this thread get so nasty? OP asked about specific mooring area and logistics. Not easy to do but not impossible, but we've got people from many miles away arguing about nonsense.

Agreed, I've pretty much stopped posting on here and a click on my profile will tell you I've been on the site for a while. Where has all the nastiest come from on here these days?

K

[andyberg]

3 hours ago, Willonaboat said:

 

Charming!

 

May I recommend a book? https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0091906814

 

Be careful you don't upset the poor little lamb or we will have to suffer another of their pathetic ‘woe is me’ threads! 🙄🙄

 

 

Edited December 19, 2023 by andyberg

[magnetman]

40 minutes ago, Ewan123 said:

Why is this? Is it just "I don't want all these new people cluttering up my canals!"? 

 

There is that. 

 

[haggis]

I think folk are just trying to make  the OP aware of some of the things which will be different when living on a boat compared with dry land. To me this is being helpful as it might help to make up minds and I see it as  being realistic rather than critical. 

Ok, when the OP is a bit more aware of the differences then more detailed questions can be answered.

I don't think it is anything to do with not wanting new people on the canals as after all, the more new boaters the more money C&RT will have and that benefits us all.

 

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[truckcab79]

2 hours ago, BilgePump said:

How the fork did this thread get so nasty? OP asked about specific mooring area and logistics. Not easy to do but not impossible, but we've got people from many miles away arguing about nonsense.

Seems to be the norm.  There’s a couple of people on here regardless of how long they might have been a member who need to be banned for the sake of improving the usefulness of the forum and making it more helpful to users. Thankfully there does at least seem to be a growing tide of people getting fed up with it judging by the comments and ‘likes’ on threads criticising them.  Maybe they’ll notice,  but I suspect they’re too thick-skinned. (Or just thick more likely). 

[magnetman]

Yes but how do you know they won't buy a Boat then find they can't get an official mooring so stay on the towpath and steadfastly refuse to move. Bloke develops an alcohol dependency, woman gets a bit lairy and legs it, bloke bends the elbow even more and ends up unlicensed with a pile of random shite beside the Boat on towpath land. 

 

The CRT then find the bloke is a moderately hardened anarchist / squatter type with early onset entitlement issues and just sticks two fingers up and says 'so sort it out - this is my home' while wielding his phone in the air and pronouncing 'I know my rights'. 

 

A hundred grand later the CRT have cleared the issue but still have a pile of old gas bottles and rusted bicycles and a dodgy generator left in the towpath to deal with. 

 

and dog poo in multicoloured plastic bags. 

 

Do we really want this ?