Waterway Map

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 1:14 PM UTC

s3krit wrote: post #98

AlexMuir wrote: post #65

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Fellow boater here - I live on a Dutch Barge. Also awake at 0530 with creaking lines in this storm. Lovely lifestyle. We registered our new baby’s address as the boat on a birth certificate last week and had no problems. Good luck to any future researcher geocoding that! I expected a postcode to be required but it wasn’t :)

Ah I love a Dutch barge, does yours have functioning leeboards? Very surprised you didn't need a postcode for the address on the birth certificate - although I suppose if it's 'place of birth', it could be anywhere really and that place might not have a postcode.

Post by pxtail » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 1:57 PM UTC

mattpallissard wrote: post #70

s3krit wrote: post #48

I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals around the UK. They were built during the industrial revolution prior to the invention of trains such that we could transport coal and other goods relatively quickly and without damage (consider…

I'm not a liveaboard but I live in an archipelago and have done my fair share of commercial fishing. IMO: When the weather is nice, there is no better way to travel than by boat. If the weather is poor, there is no worse way to travel than by boat. That said, while being stuck at anchor due to bad weather can be frustrating, there is something pleasant about laying next to the stove while you're being tossed about...…

Post by shafyy » Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 9:53 AM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #150

shafyy wrote: post #115

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I see, thanks. And I'm also assuming I would need to get some special license to sail a Narrowboat? As a non-UK citizen (EU/Swiss), do you think it could be complicated to get a Narrowboat and live on it for half a year or so?

A friend-of-a-friend lived on a narrowboat for a year while we were at university. It was all fairly straightforward, although maintenance cost more than he expected, and he was surprised to find he couldn't just moor it in central London — 'parking' is limited and restricted there. You'll find plenty of people have written about this, e.g. https://livingonanarrowboat.co.uk/ . You could also search "narrowboat holida…