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rusty bottom i'm ooot
It’s a boat, absolutely 100% guaranteed to be a massively temperamental money pit just like any other Louise
It is a boat.
You will be crying into cornflakes with beer at breakfast before you know it.
I used to live in the centre of Fleet near the canal and that boat was my 10km marker when running or kayaking. I live in the Highlands now - how I’d cherish a pan-flat 10km run 🤣
Flat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round.
DON'T BUY A BOAT!!!
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/so-ive-inherited-a-boat-its-costing-me-a-fortune/page/2/
Flat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round.
Deserves recognition 👏
OK for a long weekend of pleasure 😉
But
A bottomless money pit if you got serious
There’s an old adage about things that fly, float or fornicate…
OK for a long weekend of pleasure
or even just a wee tug
or even just a wee tug
haha! 10/10 👏👏
I used to live in the centre of Fleet near the canal
Me too! But it was nearly 30 years ago. Wow. The boat I used to like was a beautiful little wooden steam launch. Like a massive Canadian canoe with canopy over it.
My school mates dad used to drive the steam dredger at weekends when they were reopening it.
Glad you are out and about Eddie and still have your great sense of humour.
I bet she’s into ropes, locks and onlookers.
Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole......
I bet she’s into ropes, locks and onlookers.
Badum, tish!
A very dear friend of mine has a narrowboat, I don’t think they’re the money pit that many other boats are. They live in Cambridgeshire and she’s now moored not far away, but the canal runs past the bottom of their road so they can bring the boat around and load up quite easily. When they first bought her, she was moored up near Birmingham, and my friends husband was working not far from there, so the boat saved him a small fortune in hotel or B&B cost.
Plenty of people live on them all year round, and really, so long as the hull has been well prepared and painted, the boat will keep its integrity for ages, they’re on fresh water, not salt, and they’re mostly steel, very little wood.
The boat I used to like was a beautiful little wooden steam launch. Like a massive Canadian canoe with canopy over it.
Used to see it around - the guy who owned it used to have it in his garden over winter but don’t recall seeing it for the last 10 years or so. I’ll always have a fondness for the Basingstoke canal as it made Fleet a bit different, an otherwise fairly bland suburban town. I must have logged thousands of towpath miles over the 31 years I lived there.
I know that Louise. She and I have met up on numerous nights under a gloomy canal bridge, normally ending up with me shooting off into the bankside brambles. In my canoe.