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Mizmo said:
I have retired friends in England who live in a houseboat in a canal. I visited a few years ago and yes I could live like that...tripping in and around the canals is wonderful....stop at a pub now and againView attachment 202599
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well we have a narrowboat..I can assure you it's a lot of hard work. Great fun in the summer, ( not so great going through all the locks)... but not so much fun in the winter when you have to hunt for wood for the fire and haul calor gas for the cooker.. ( no-one delivers to a boat moored up at the side of the canal) ....also while moored on the canal and not at a Marina , boats are also often victim to attack by vandals
 
hollydolly said:
well we have a narrowboat..I can assure you it's a lot of hard work. Great fun in the summer, ( not so great going through all the locks)... but not so much fun in the winter when you have to hunt for wood for the fire and haul calor gas for the cooker.. ( no-one delivers to a boat moored up at the side of the canal) ....also while moored on the canal and not at a Marina , boats are also often victim to attack by vandals
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My sister's friend lives on a boat moored up at the side of a canal. I have always loved the idea of living on a boat but probably not all year round. Like you, I would love it in the summer though.

Shame that there are morons around who have no respect for other people's property.
 
hollydolly said:
well we have a narrowboat..I can assure you it's a lot of hard work. Great fun in the summer, ( not so great going through all the locks)... but not so much fun in the winter when you have to hunt for wood for the fire and haul calor gas for the cooker.. ( no-one delivers to a boat moored up at the side of the canal) ....also while moored on the canal and not at a Marina , boats are also often victim to attack by vandals
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Well they seemed happy enough with their lifestyle and I don't recall them mentioning having any vandal attacks.
I guess location has a lot to do with it too. To each his own..
 
Mizmo said:
Well they seemed happy enough with their lifestyle and I don't recall them mentioning having any vandal attacks.
I guess location has a lot to do with it too. To each his own..
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well our boat is moored in a upmarket area,... even we've been subject to attacks by morons, even once when we were sailing though the regents canal in London,we had shots fired at us from air rifles.. ( nothing whatsoever to do with location)
 
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hollydolly said:
well our boat is moored in a upmarket area,... even we've been subject to attacks by morons, even once when we were sailing though the regents canal in London,we had shots fired at us from air rifles.. ( nothing whatsoever to do with location)
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Hackney or thereabouts? I have heard of similar incidents.
 
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