Same. I'll give it the 3rd and see where it goes.
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TV Series
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Canal Boat Diaries - BBC 4, is a really lovely watch. ( four series so far )
Follows a young lad, who decided to live on a barge, as he travels the canals up and down Britain.
If you`ve had a bad day, just watch an episode and it`ll bring you right down, as it`s just so tranquil.
Follows a young lad, who decided to live on a barge, as he travels the canals up and down Britain.
If you`ve had a bad day, just watch an episode and it`ll bring you right down, as it`s just so tranquil.
A canal boat holiday is brilliant.
He`s been doing his diaries for the best part of four years now, after jacking it all in and going full time on his barge.
It`s a lovely programme, as he`s such a likeable fella and he doesn`t hide, how hard it really is to live on a canal barge.
carlos21
KING OF REP
Have you heard about a new channel called itv x mate.
Aye, the living on the boat aspect must be very difficult. We, as a wider family, own a canal boat, which we use across the year and rent out for the rest.
It can be (is) a nightmare to maintain: paying for the CRT licence; general servicing for the boat, including blackening of the hull; insurance for the boat.
Some of this will be offset and/or shared across the family, but fuel costs ain't cheap: coal if used throughout the winter, coal is easily £400+ per year.
Diesel will depend on the number of days sailed throughout the year, and it's also relative to the distance - a few hours a day or lots of constant pushing on.
I would say it could easily go from £150 - £1,000 a year, with it also depending on how you declare it to the HMRC: different rates for domestic or propulsion.
In the winter time, you need to pay for moorings as solar won't cover the batteries unless the diesel is running for a few hours, which increases the above.
Moorings put a big bit on your bill. Anyway, I'll get on to watching it, yet my point is I have a lot of admiration for those who live on them as it wouldn't be for me.
Brendan Janus
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Float, float on 
His maintenance seems to be never ending !
Depends on the age of the boat and how well it has been maintained over its life. Ours is 2011, so it's not new, but it ain't old - many can be twenty-years plus.
You could buy a brand new, top of the range boat, and it could be a rusting dump or even worse sat at the bottom of the canal within a few years.
The moisture can and will get everywhere and the hull will deteriorate if not looked after. That's before the engine, the electrics and everything else onboard.
We're going to get rid of it soon. Doubt we'll buy another unless someone is really up for it, as the capital outlay isn't worth the return if you want it kept nice.
It’s all the things, that you’d never think of, until they go wrong.
We let a not-so-close family member use the boat, and they stupidly (although told not to) used the more convenient cassette toilet than the pump out toilet.
I've got a fairly strong stomach, but I did not enjoy having to help clean the boat when they dropped the f'in thing all over the floor in the galley.
A good few hours of cleaning and having to air the boat to remove the smell. Using the elsan point is bad enough, but wiping up days of faeces ain't fun.
That's before thinking of issues with condensation, people getting the propeller fully tangled up after banking the thing and people ruining the batteries.
To be fair, narrow boats go wrong more than they go right.
I watched episode 1 and it wasnt terrible, but it certainly wasnt great.
Just noticed that season 2 of slow Horses starts 2nd December!!
They‘ve commissioned series 3 and 4 too
Noiiice