On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Neil Arlidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > People that own boats to cruise will soon be in the minority....a liveaboard > boat is not a luxury, a cruising boat is.
...well there in lies the rub. People these days seem so against renting, they want to buy but they will only look at expensive houses they can ill afford to purchase. Lets face it, a narrowboat is little more than a bedsit/one bed flat without running water or sewerage, and for people who "CC" has no car parking of it's own. Older boats tend to be difficult to heat, and many people seem to be quite happy with wood stoves to reduce costs further. Yet if you ask people who live on boats if they would buy/rent a property like that they would run a mile (down the towpath?) even at the same price they are paying for their boat. Yeah, living on a boat is probably much cheaper than renting, but overall you get much less. One of the main reasons I want to live on my boat is that it is a cheap way of owning a boat! I still own my flat in Reading (let out), and while the commute to work was getting me down I realised I could get a "two for one" deal. Mike -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
