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Hi. I'm not really where to look for advice but hoping someone can help me. I currently have a 27ft Springer ( I believe) that I want to site on land and use as a Glamping accommodation. Is there someone near that could advise/help on conversion? Really lost on the technical side. I love this boat and would really like to see her in use. I'm in Ashbourne, Derbyshire if anyone fancies it? 

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1 minute ago, Emz said:

Hi. I'm not really where to look for advice but hoping someone can help me. I currently have a 27ft Springer ( I believe) that I want to site on land and use as a Glamping accommodation. Is there someone near that could advise/help on conversion? Really lost on the technical side. I love this boat and would really like to see her in use. I'm in Ashbourne, Derbyshire if anyone fancies it? 

sounds like a good idea for an old boat

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I dont think it's a mad idea at all, for instance, old train carriages make wonderful 'tents' so a Springer could look marvellous and decorated with a trendy nautical theme perhaps. My daughter recently paid £175 to stay three days in a glamorous shed in somebody's garden, admittedy it had surrounding stunning views. 

 

I love my narrowboat home and would hate to leave it so Ive considered that when I become unable to manage the boat I'd like to have it plumbed to a water and electric system on the land and somewhere warm. 

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1 minute ago, Athy said:

One problem might be that, being a Springer, it will have a V rather than a flat bottom and would thus need shoring up with railway sleepers or similar to prevent it from toppling over.

But unless you want to climb up and down ladders/steps each time you get on or off or you cut a hole in the hull you will need some kind of hole to drop it into so the hole profile could take care of the V bottom.

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3 minutes ago, Athy said:

One problem might be that, being a Springer, it will have a V rather than a flat bottom and would thus need shoring up with railway sleepers or similar to prevent it from toppling over.

Once stabilised it could then be clad in a suitable material which might provide storage and hide gas bottles or suchlike. 

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3 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

But unless you want to climb up and down ladders/steps each time you get on or off or you cut a hole in the hull you will need some kind of hole to drop it into so the hole profile could take care of the V bottom.

This. 

 

It it sounds like a great project :)

 

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The vee bottom may be an asset if set into a gravel soak away, having nowhere for water to sit against. Could look stunning planted up with cornflowers, love in a mist, etc. to give the impression of water around the hull.

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15 hours ago, Emz said:

Hi. I'm not really where to look for advice but hoping someone can help me. I currently have a 27ft Springer ( I believe) that I want to site on land and use as a Glamping accommodation. Is there someone near that could advise/help on conversion? Really lost on the technical side. I love this boat and would really like to see her in use. I'm in Ashbourne, Derbyshire if anyone fancies it? 

A great idea, I've stayed in a few odd sites including railway carriage (very nice) and a prison cell (odd and slightly creepy) but it might be worth considering effect of the exposed hull to the interior temp, as most underwater bits are not insulated 

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15 minutes ago, Athy said:

One problem might be that, being a Springer, it will have a V rather than a flat bottom and would thus need shoring up with railway sleepers or similar to prevent it from toppling over.

I'd prop it up with a couple of old car coil springs or piles of sponge rubber. This would replicate a rolling motion as if at sea, when its walked about in,

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15 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

But unless you want to climb up and down ladders/steps each time you get on or off or you cut a hole in the hull you will need some kind of hole to drop it into so the hole profile could take care of the V bottom.

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Or you could drop it into something liquid, such as water. That could work.

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2 minutes ago, Athy said:

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Or you could drop it into something liquid, such as water. That could work.

Predictable... but inevitable that somebody responded to the trap. 

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7 minutes ago, Winn said:

Predictable... but inevitable that somebody responded to the trap. 

You feel that the original post is a hoax? I'm not sure - after all, there's that boat in a field on (or rather just off) the Oxford Canal.

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1 minute ago, Athy said:

You feel that the original post is a hoax? I'm not sure - after all, there's that boat in a field on (or rather just off) the Oxford Canal.

Agreed Athy, and it's not as if it's  The First of April / a strange nom de plume  [eng: pen of my aunt]

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Just now, Athy said:

You feel that the original post is a hoax? I'm not sure - after all, there's that boat in a field on (or rather just off) the Oxford Canal.

sigh...  you didnt see the trap? .... set up by Tony?  

 

(doesn't work when you have to explain it!)  

 

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