On 9/3/06, TREVOR BURRIDGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I posted a submission some months ago. It went along the lines of "One of > my clients has expressed an interest in living on the cut and in my > professional capacity asked about finance options. I posted a request for > any one to contact me with their experiences of finance and getting afloat > and offered the confidential approach. Closed club yes indeed! NO one > replied !
Probably because there are so many ways of doing it - most are obvious. I re-morgaged my flat (which I currently let), to find the money for Shoestring which I live aboard. My Dad could not get a loan for a boat in the early 70's. He already had a small fibreglass cruiser (he started with a disgarded bath tub!), but saved up some more money and bought a 30ft steel hull. My parents then cruised over to Worsley, and towed it back to Hull. It had no engine, no superstructure, nothing. My Mum and Dad built it over the last 30 odd years, and like any home built boat is never really finished! I also half own a 50ft narrowboat (Kismet) with my Dad. I saved up my money, and we bought a second hand sailaway shell (long story short - unfinished project). We are currently making it into a finished boat - our first year boating was camping in a metal box with no insulation in a very hot summer. There's three examples. Mike -- Michael Askin http://shoestring.zapto.org/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
