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Sam.Spoons
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Topic: Benefits on a liveaboard? Posted: 21 Jul 18 at 9:25am |
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You have to be a 'bona-fide' 'continuous cruiser' and move an "unspecified" distance navigating the waterways. They will assess if they think you meet the conditions when you renew your licence. The conditions are pretty strict and there was a documentary about it a while ago (if I can find it I'll post a link, it was a good, if slightly disturbing, watch). It's very difficult, almost impossible if you have schools or work to attend. The Canals and Waterways Trust seems particularly unsympathetic in the way they apply the rules and the feeling amongst the cruising community is that the Trust are trying to eradicate liveaboard's from the network. All very sad and, whilst I understand the need for revenue to maintain the waterways I find it hard to see what harm liveaboards do by spending more than the 'official' time on a small area of the network.
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Sam.Spoons
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jul 18 at 9:30am | |
BTW, rather than labelling the OP as a spammer we should thank him for kicking off an interesting discussion (even though it may actually not be relevant to his own specific circumstances)
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JimC
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jul 18 at 9:38am | |
If all the moorings in London were occupied by permanent residents rotating between moorings there would be no moorings for people who were actually using the canal system. If you have too many liveaboards you don't have a canal network because it becomes difficult or impossible to travel anywhere and find a place to stop. |
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Sam.Spoons
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jul 18 at 10:10am | |
Yes, that makes some sense JC
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Sam.Spoons
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jul 18 at 10:20am | |
Here is that video I mentioned http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=125&v=5upAf7waaLg
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PeterG
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jul 18 at 11:57am | |
How far do you have to move ?
I don't know what the minimum distance is, but I think in practice it can be quite a long way, and unsurprisingly it's often not easy finding space in the SE near London.
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Sam.Spoons
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jul 18 at 3:55pm | |
There isn't an official minimum distance and the C&WT keep moving the goalposts (they really don't seem to want liveaboards on the network but the right to live on the canals is enshrined in the waterways act). FWIW the people in the documentary were on the Kennet and Avon where it's fairly quiet, not S London.
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Rusty69
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jul 18 at 4:11pm | |
No need to quote figures. I actually live on a narrowboat, but not in London. I also own a house |
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Sam.Spoons
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jul 18 at 4:36pm | |
Fair enough, I stand by it being much cheaper than living in a house though
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Jul 18 at 4:44pm | |
It probably is if you compare buying a house in London to buying a narrowboat in London, but mooring costs pa in London are silly money for a decent sized liveaboard narrowboat. Constant cruising around London whilst possible, would prove very difficult.
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