Nice, wood burning stove and lovely fitted internals. Close to cycling track (towpath), no council tax or utility bills. 130k & the complete freedom of the British canal system.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Widebeam-canal-boat-Dutch-Barge-70-foot-Residential-mooring-Warwickshire-/251520655427?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3a8fcca043#ht_2407wt_1190

no council tax

You’d pay council tax of some sort I’m afraid

water gypsy 😉

really? ok, news to me, thought it would just be mooring costs.

Won’t post,I’m out.

Love the odd canal boat weekend and when the finances can afford think I may get a time share in a narrow boat.

That beauty is all kinds of nice.

Its a Widebeam so far from complete freedom 🙂

Plus marina fee’s, mortgage difficulty (you may sink it or disappear with the banks security!) and mooring restrictions!

complete freedom of the British canal system.

I’d check the width on it – it’s a Dutch Barge, not a narrow boat. A lot of locks will be too narrow.

I’d live in it though. there’s a lovely little bike room if you take that cot out of it.

Once you buy one, you’ll never smile again. It’s like caravanning, but even slower, and infinitely more miserable.

Just buy a bike, ride it down the canal path, and ride back to youe house for tea. No misery involved.

As above, that won’t fit in many locks – there’s a flight of 16 near us

A tight fit.. by hoppieno3, on Flickr

Does look like a nice boat though!

You would have to take it to France and enjoy the rivers down there. No good here in narrow locks.

Wait till your too old for riding bikes.

Way to ruin a nice daydream stw. I don’t think living on a barge would be much fun tbh. I live in Stoke and often see tourists on barges on the canal. I like to picture them sitting in their nice detached in Kent reading a glossy brochure about the picturesque waterways of North Staffordshire, the colourful dragonflys fluttering by and the ducks paddling over at breakfast then skip to reality of passing the burnt out factories and forgotten corners of Stoke in the rain. Plus going up or down a lock seems like a massive pita.

Then there’s the craft license…..

I left my nice detached Sussex pad but did my research and went to a more upmarket area of the Leicester/Oxford Canal. Enjoyed the locks…nice bit of exercise 🙂

She’d be able to navigate the K&A, so could travel from Bristol to London and back. I’ve seen a fully sea-going Dutch Barge on the K&A, moored up in Bath for a while; her skipper was taking her across to Ireland, IIRC. Lovely boat.

I remember a conversation in our local post office.
Man – “I would like to buy a licence” (can’t remember what it was for now).
Post office girl – “That’s fine, could I have your address please?”
man – “I live on a narrow boat and don’t have an address as such.”
p.o.g – “but I need an address for you to purchase this licence.”
man – “as I said I don’t have a permanent address”.

This conversation went round and round in circles and I never heard the outcome.

could buy a nice house here for that money