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Morrisman
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People have rowed across the Atlantic, so 40hp would be ample to cross the channel on a calm day.40hp - open sea.
I would love to be able to sail, buy a boat and just **** off to wherever I stopped, unfortunately wifey doesn't want to!!
In the meantime I did see a program once about a person taking a narrow boat across the channel. It is possible, just have to wait for the right conditions.
In the meantime I did see a program once about a person taking a narrow boat across the channel. It is possible, just have to wait for the right conditions.
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40 foot yachts eat money, just in different ways to motorboats!
Do you always do what wifey wants? A friend of my fathers took a small bilge keeled yacht, to the south coat, then over to France, and through the canals to the med.
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So what you telling me/us - all boats eat money...
There is a saying "If it floats, flies or your feelings are involved - it is best rented in"
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There also heard this one "if it floats or flies, your savings sink and die"
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On the subject of costs, I neither set fire to money, inhale the toxins and become seriously ill, nor do I spray my money against the porcelain, so I think that blowing some cash on an interest is good value. Same as when I got my PPL, an hour or two a month of flight training was equivalent to what some people were spending to harm themselves.
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Basically yes, boating can be an expensive, doubly so if it costs you a divorce as well. But it doesn't have to be if you are careful, sensible and capable of fixing things. As boats get bigger the prices for stuff do not rise in proportion, they tend to rise exponentially.So what you telling me/us - all boats eat money...
There is a saying "If it floats or flies or your feelings are involved - it is best rented in"
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There also heard this one "if it floats or flies it sinks and dies"
The secret is to make sure the money you invest in making memories, only makes good memories not bad ones!
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I was looking at narrow boats a few years back. Here in London the values are largely dictated by the mooring that the boat comes with as they're difficult to find.
When I read up on it ...having to pay a proportion of the boat price to the mooring provider and being on the hook for uncertain future mooring fees I decided it was too much stress.
If you have a good mooring then it's a different story I think.
When I read up on it ...having to pay a proportion of the boat price to the mooring provider and being on the hook for uncertain future mooring fees I decided it was too much stress.
If you have a good mooring then it's a different story I think.
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I am looking for a mooring now. The one available I knew about seems to have gone.
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Here in London the mooring is key and boats on moorings go for a lot more money.
I did try to look for freehold moorings that I could buy but they were crazy money.
Continuous cruising wasn't an option for me...there's a lot of rules around how far the boat needs to travel etc...too much faff.
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Apparently they tie two together, side by side, so an old narrowboat owner told me years ago. The French canal system is probably as good as their roads, so it could be some amazing cruising over there.
This was a solo boat, waited for really calm day and did a little extra waterproofing if I remember right. He continued down to the Med.
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We live near the canal du Bourgogne, to an outsider it looks to be well maintained, and has the added benefit of not needing to do the locks yourself - there’re lock keepers that ride the towpath on scooters to meet boats at the lock.
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Pigeon_Droppings2
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Some are rated for costal waters I believe (Dutch barges)...others not so much! The ones I've seen that are capable have the bow a different shape to prevent it digging in and going under.
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May have been the one I saw, they had to add plates to the front of the cabin to waterproof it, wear life jackets and have an escort boat to shepard them across?
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Timothy Spall with a Dutch barge
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Timothy Spall: ...at Sea - Wikipedia
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The trees are being cleared and I could tie up here, but how to get in snd out of the boat at various river levels?
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A floating pontoon made of barrels ? (They do make plastic squares for thr same thing ?
