Living on a canal boat
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Anyone live on a canal boat?
A few of my friends do and one of them is moving away for a year and offered to rent it out to me for a cheap fee. Thinking it would make a good cheap pad to get away from things as I currently cant afford to rent a place.
What do you lot reckon.
I have spent many days and nights on boats as lots of my friends own them so kind of know what the score is, just after some people who may have experienced and why they got out of it.
ps im nor a pikey
A few of my friends do and one of them is moving away for a year and offered to rent it out to me for a cheap fee. Thinking it would make a good cheap pad to get away from things as I currently cant afford to rent a place.
What do you lot reckon.
I have spent many days and nights on boats as lots of my friends own them so kind of know what the score is, just after some people who may have experienced and why they got out of it.
ps im nor a pikey
BlackVanGirl said:
You'll never, ever feel really warm and dry, miserable in winter or the prolonged bad weather of the British summer. Nice for day trips or holidays, awful to live I'd expect. Totally impossible to dry the washing etc.
So living in a black van is better than living on a boat?Will "green bus-shelter boy' be along in a minute?
Think about this carefully.
1. It is just a floating caravan.
2. It may well be more prone to damp than a caravan.
3. Tow paths are always littered with dog s
t which is then transferred to your boat when you get home pissed.
4. You have to empty your own sewage.
5. The shower will be weak to say the least.
6. You have to fill it up with water from a hose pipe. I could imagine that the novelty of this would wear thin after an hour or so.
7. Assuming that you have one, where would you park the P&J?
1. It is just a floating caravan.
2. It may well be more prone to damp than a caravan.
3. Tow paths are always littered with dog s
t which is then transferred to your boat when you get home pissed.4. You have to empty your own sewage.
5. The shower will be weak to say the least.
6. You have to fill it up with water from a hose pipe. I could imagine that the novelty of this would wear thin after an hour or so.
7. Assuming that you have one, where would you park the P&J?
BlackVanGirl said:
You'll never, ever feel really warm and dry
Really?Our house overlooks the canal and we often walk the dog down along the towpath. In the winter/autumn evenings the narrowboats look so warm and cosy with their little fires chuffing away.
A life on the ocean waves, ahoy there matey etc.
Sounds cool to me and I bet the chicks would dig it.
Ordinary Bloke said:
BlackVanGirl said:
You'll never, ever feel really warm and dry, miserable in winter or the prolonged bad weather of the British summer. Nice for day trips or holidays, awful to live I'd expect. Totally impossible to dry the washing etc.
So living in a black van is better than living on a boat?Will "green bus-shelter boy' be along in a minute?
Think about it. White Van Man... Black Van Girl.
I live in a poxy damp house.
B17NNS said:
BlackVanGirl said:
You'll never, ever feel really warm and dry
Really?Our house overlooks the canal and we often walk the dog down along the towpath. In the winter/autumn evenings the narrowboats look so warm and cosy with their little fires chuffing away.
A life on the ocean waves, ahoy there matey etc.
Sounds cool to me and I bet the chicks would dig it.
The Curn said:
Think about this carefully.
1. It is just a floating caravan.
2. It may well be more prone to damp than a caravan.
3. Tow paths are always littered with dog st which is then transferred to your boat when you get home pissed.
4. You have to empty your own sewage.
5. The shower will be weak to say the least.
6. You have to fill it up with water from a hose pipe. I could imagine that the novelty of this would wear thin after an hour or so.
7. Assuming that you have one, where would you park the P&J?
If he's paying rent surely it will be a fixed mooring?1. It is just a floating caravan.
2. It may well be more prone to damp than a caravan.
3. Tow paths are always littered with dog s
t which is then transferred to your boat when you get home pissed.4. You have to empty your own sewage.
5. The shower will be weak to say the least.
6. You have to fill it up with water from a hose pipe. I could imagine that the novelty of this would wear thin after an hour or so.
7. Assuming that you have one, where would you park the P&J?
Have to agree with you though, I wouldn't fancy living on a boat if I was outside of a marina as I'm too used to home comforts. Plus nobody can untie my house whilst I'm asleep and push it into the middle of the canal.
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