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
The boat isnt a fixed mooring, they must move every 2-3 weeks to a different location but I regularly move with them like we did last night and its quite fun. A lot of my mates are doing this now.
regarding heat they seem to be most definitely warm. One I would move into has a Aga that gives off a lot of heat and a wood buring stove with a fan to propel the heat down the boat.
as for parking the P&J that can stay at my parents where I would probably live half the time anyway. My snotter will be in a layby somewhere. Of above 5 cars a group of my boating friends have only one has had a window smashed in 3years parked in laybys including a 205 GTi and a MX5.
what would you guys say would be a fair rent. I have no clue. Boat has been paid off but she is working elsewhere for a year so would have to pay to moor it somewhere. I would be doing her a favour but obviously putting wear and tear on her boat so rent of sort sort will be paid. Neither of us know how much is fair though!
regarding heat they seem to be most definitely warm. One I would move into has a Aga that gives off a lot of heat and a wood buring stove with a fan to propel the heat down the boat.
as for parking the P&J that can stay at my parents where I would probably live half the time anyway. My snotter will be in a layby somewhere. Of above 5 cars a group of my boating friends have only one has had a window smashed in 3years parked in laybys including a 205 GTi and a MX5.
what would you guys say would be a fair rent. I have no clue. Boat has been paid off but she is working elsewhere for a year so would have to pay to moor it somewhere. I would be doing her a favour but obviously putting wear and tear on her boat so rent of sort sort will be paid. Neither of us know how much is fair though!
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