Ahoy thar landlubbers

This thread is ace! Just sayin'.

too right. I want to get one now, especially as I don't need space for records...

I'd quite like a boat that could have a snooker table on gimballs, so that you could keep playing on a perfectly flat surface as the boat tootled around.

You'd need this.

Ocean Emerald

Designed by Norman Foster.

nah, you need a Wally....

Lack of storage.

Any chance all those who've contributed constructivly to the thread can have a holday Up North... we could do a group ride..... and then 'crash' the barge with a few bottles of sweet sherry in return for a crayfish sarnie.

good point, I suppose for 30 million dollars one would want some drawers and that to keep it tidy like

@goodhead..... on reflection... think very carefully before you reply to my last post!

I've just ordered a crayfish net. Can I come.

You'd need this.

Ocean Emerald

Designed by Norman Foster.

or this

boat, pedals, and room for books. Even keeps the rain off.

I booked a group of agrics on a stag w/end in Holland.

What's an agric?

Old money youngsters, sloane types.

agricultural students?

Any chance all those who've contributed constructivly to the thread can have a holday Up North... we could do a group ride..... and then 'crash' the barge with a few bottles of sweet sherry in return for a crayfish sarnie.

I guess a party on a narrowboat would be much like a sociable queue

LoL.... or one long queue for the loo.......

Old money youngsters, sloane types.

Ta. I get it.

I was seriously considering the purchase of a narrow boat, but the idea of heating with a pot belly stove turned me off. You could own one in a couple of years with the price of rent.

Timothy Spall.
http://www.spallsatsea.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRtv56ffDG8

I was seriously considering the purchase of a narrow boat, but the idea of heating with a pot belly stove turned me off. You could own one in a couple of years with the price of rent.

That is, of course, if you saved your rent by living in a hedge.
I was in my local newsagents and I could see no decent publications envisionaging the glamorous possibilities of a lifestyle inhabiting privet.

If I was single I would do it.
As it is, I'm not. Hey ho.

My childhood friend bought a narrowboat, and had just finished re-fitting it with the plan of chugging the beauty up to the gorgeous waterways of Yorkshire where we grew up.
Sadly he died under tragic circumstances..
It still guts me to think about it.
I don't know what happened to his boat.
Why couldn't some turd on crack have keeled over in his stead, and allowed a fine specimen such as he to gently pootle the finest waterways on this Earth?
I'll do a trip in his memory soon, and sip a chilled ale for him.

This thread is ace! Just sayin'.

Oh yes, now I really want to live in a boat.

must've been super nice to sleep in.

the rocking and slapping of the water (unlike fat people slapping their folds onto decks, but similar) is very relaxing. i remember watching a documentary where some fucking DOOD had marble surfaces, and a fucking glass cielinged double bed for all the voyeurs out der.

Hello...I prefer a sea boat to a fresh water boat myself.

Make sure mooring is residential, and has power. Brighton marina was really cool, not tidal and had a gym that was included in the mooring fee that was really cheap compared to rent.

I love boats, my family used to have one on the river Ouse in York. Proper fun to just have little trips up and down the river and a picnic or something.

Moored at Naburn, Sumo?

I was looking onto the possibility of living on a houseboat about 10 years ago, everywhere I looked in London was charging scandalous mooring fees, and that was if you could actually get a mooring... Even looked as far as Medway...

Back then you could get an excellent reconditioned narrow boat for £40k, dunno if this has changed... I was very taken by the houseboats you see in Amsterdam, basically a floating apartment...