The BW key arrived this week so we took the train up to Sawbridgeworth and then walked the 5ish miles along the icey Stort down to our mooring. If everything goes well, we'll be moving Water Witch here at the beginning of March 2011. Seems an age away, but I'm sure it will pass quickly.
While we were at the marina, we bumped into some of the boaters who are going to be my new neighbours. A very friendly bunch. "Do you like to drink?", one of them asked...I think I'm going to like it here!
Went to a nearby public house for lunch and beer, and then home to North London. Very cold!
18 days until the survey and counting!
Sunday 28 November 2010
Sunday 21 November 2010
Hello
Hello,
Welcome to our blog. We are currently in the process of buying a 60ft narrowboat. It is called Water Witch. Sometimes things go quickly, and then we hit a snag. We only made the offer on the boat about 2 weeks ago. The finances are all sorted and we have a mooring lined up. Things were running nice and smoothly but then we hit one of those snags. Before we sign on the dotted line, and before the bank hands over the loan we've arranged, we need to get a survey done. For that to happen we need to take the boat out of the water, and the earliest that is going to happen is the week before Christmas - nearly a month! Of course, once you hit one snag, you notice another one waiting in the wings...for us that snag in waiting is the fact that a lock we need to go through to get the boat to our Essex mooring is going to be closed...until the end of February. As we say in Essex...proper annoying! (or words to that effect).
I first thought about getting a boat to live aboard about 20 years ago. I guess waiting another couple of months before it actually happens isn't the end of the world!
Anyway, that's the story so far. For the time being I'll try to update here once a week.
In the meantime, here's a picture with a canal in it...and a bus:
Welcome to our blog. We are currently in the process of buying a 60ft narrowboat. It is called Water Witch. Sometimes things go quickly, and then we hit a snag. We only made the offer on the boat about 2 weeks ago. The finances are all sorted and we have a mooring lined up. Things were running nice and smoothly but then we hit one of those snags. Before we sign on the dotted line, and before the bank hands over the loan we've arranged, we need to get a survey done. For that to happen we need to take the boat out of the water, and the earliest that is going to happen is the week before Christmas - nearly a month! Of course, once you hit one snag, you notice another one waiting in the wings...for us that snag in waiting is the fact that a lock we need to go through to get the boat to our Essex mooring is going to be closed...until the end of February. As we say in Essex...proper annoying! (or words to that effect).
I first thought about getting a boat to live aboard about 20 years ago. I guess waiting another couple of months before it actually happens isn't the end of the world!
Anyway, that's the story so far. For the time being I'll try to update here once a week.
In the meantime, here's a picture with a canal in it...and a bus:
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