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26/10/2020 at 2:48pm
Location: East Herts
Outfit: 1992 Elddis Wisp 450CT + X Trail
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There are a lot of narrow-boats moored on the riverbank near me, and I know people are living on many of them. My wife used to work in the local post office, and the boaters all collected their mail from there.
At one time the idea appealed to me to either live on a boat or in a coach converted to a motorhome, but I don't think I would want to do it now that we are in our 70s. Too much heating required, too cramped, and too many other problems like water supply and emptying the toilet etc. A caravan for a holiday is great, but I know I'm always glad to be going home to a nice warm house with plenty of room to move around. I also enjoy pottering around in my workshop in the garden, which I couldn't do in a caravan that I was also living in.
I think I would get claustrophobia living full time in a caravan, especially in winter. When we go away with ours in the summer we mainly only use it for sleeping in. We are out somewhere most of the time. Now that we are retired we hardly go out much at all in winter. If we were confined to a caravan, that would drive me crazy, but in a house there's always something to do.
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05/11/2020 at 10:55am
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Quote: Originally posted by Mick S. on 26/10/2020
Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 26/10/2020
There are a lot of narrow-boats moored on the riverbank near me, and I know people are living on many of them. My wife used to work in the local post office, and the boaters all collected their mail from there.
If these people have fixed moorings, they often have gardens, sheds, the lot. Granted the 'boat' is going to be smaller than your house (most of the time. Some of these wide-beams are bigger than bungalows inside.). I think you would have to start out pretty early on in life to accept the limitations though. I have often thought i could live in a caravan, but could i really? Probably not.
There are a couple of fixed moorings near me, presumably the land has been bought by the boat owners, but these are mainly wide-beam boats. They are really lovely and very well looked after, and I would imagine they are easily as big as a bungalow inside. However, the vast majority of the boats in this area are narrow-boats, and they are just moored on the towpath. The main problem for them is probably emptying their toilet tanks. These have to be pumped out at a boatyard, so they have to be taken to a boatyard every now and then. What happens if the boatyard is closed due to Covid lock-down?
Post last edited on 05/11/2020 11:11:44
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