junior

Under offer. Wonder if it's the OP?

But we're talking about the boat in the link provided by the OP, and that doesn't have a diesel boiler or very quiet cocooned diesel genny.

My point about not having hot water in the morning was probably now worded the best, but what I really meant is that at the time we all like to have a bit of hot water such as in the morning when woken up, unless you've cruised the afternoon before, you're unlikely to have any. There is a finite length of time your water will stay hot in the calorifier, and if that's your only means of generating hot water, I can imagine it soon become frustrating and costly to install another means of heating your water. If you're going to be living in a marina on hook up all the time, it probably wouldn't cost too much to get an immersion element put in the calorifier, but if you're out cruising or living on the towpath and only cruising now and again, you'll need an instantaneous water heater, which I understand are not easy to retrofit these days due to regs, or a back boiler and pipework adding to your solid fuel stove, and this would be costly if at all possible. Webasto type devices are also an option, but I fitted something like this on the cheap recently and it still cost me over a grand.

I don't know the area specifically, but anywhere there is other boats moored is surely okay. As for being concerned about leaving the boat in the day, even in some of the badlands where I wouldn't really want to stop overnight, I wouldn't mind leaving the boat during the day.

I'd be very up front with asking them why it has just been surveyed, and use your own judge of character to see if you think they are being honest with you. Tell them you want to have your own survey anyway, and see if they start telling you that you don't need to etc. That would not only be a red flag to me, but I'd also be annoyed that they are taking me for someone who is gullible. The first bit of advice everyone is told when looking for their first boat is "get your own independent survey". That said, someone above has suggested this might be a 'stock boat' and owned by them, as Venetian Marina and their sister company Whilton Marina are both known to buy boats for cash to then sell on. If this is the case with this boat, it makes sense for them to have it surveyed when they buy it so they know what they are marketing. When you ask them why it's just had a survey, if this is the answer then personally I would still recommend a 'newbie' get their own independent survey, but if the previous surveyor was willing to transfer the survey into your name from a liability point of view, then you've got a question to ask yourself and the opportunity to save best part of £1k. I'm not sure if it's still the case with all insurance companies, but I thought most required you to have an up to date survey in YOUR name to give you insurance, albeit I don't think this boat will have reached the age yet where it needs a regular survey for insurance purposes? In terms of the boat, it's not to my personal taste with the square cruiser stern, but something I think it's important for you to realise is that the only hot water heating is from the engine into a calorifier. I'm not sure if you'll be Continuous Cruising, living aboard full time, in a marina etc... but you will only have hot water once you've run your engine for about an hour, and then that water will only stay hot and useable for a certain amount of time. So when you wake up in the morning, you'll have no hot water. You could install a secondary water heating system, but don't underestimate how much that will cost. Imagine your engine starts playing up at some point, you'll have no hot water at all. In summer that'll be annoying, but in winter it could be very demoralising. Something I always recommend to peoptis to have 2 different ways or generating cabin heating, electricity and hot water. So if one fails you've got a fall back. Boating can do very quickly become no fun when systems start going wrong, they cost a fortune to repair and you can't charge your phone, run the fridge or keep warm. Lastly, do a bit of research into Liverpool Boats, now known as Collingwood. They are mass produced and people have varying opinions on them. Just because it's a 2008 built boat, I don't think that's a guarantee it hasn't had remedial steelwork done, or need it doing.

Hardly CRT to blame. I also reckon that despite saying no known timescale, they'll get the boats that are waiting through fairly quickly with an assisted passage. They've probably had to put the stoppage notice out with that wording as it's a weekend and the people required to do the work (clearing the navigation and declaring the bridge stable) won't be on site for an assessment until tomorrow at the earliest. I'd expect an update to the stoppage fairly quickly once the wheels are in motion this week.

My thoughts exactly.

If the OP named the boat in his original post, then it would take the brains of an archbishop to then know who the seller/broker was. To be honest I don't know the rules of the forum, but if there is a rule about naming individuals or businesses when you may be in dispute with them, then naming the boat involved in indirectly breach the rule. Either way, as we know there's always two sides to a story and we usually only get one side on the forum. I don't think the moderators need to explain their decision publicly, it's probably just common sense that the post was removed. On a side note, I do think it's a good idea that when a post or thread is removed, the moderators should inform the person responsible as to why, out of common courtesy, but also to ensure no repeats, assuming it was a mistake on the posters fault. Of course this may have happened already.

What's the reason they won't hand over the boat?

Just seen on Facebook 🤣

How often do you need to move to be bona fide navigating?

Next we'll have swan windows, goose doors, moorhen holes, pigeon boxes...

Duck hatch? FFS.

Something that always plays on my mind is that if a boat has been owned by the same person for so long (as Buckden has), then there is this subconsciousness that it will always be though of as their boat. I'm not sure I'd want to be the current custodian of a boat the everyone else will always think of and refer to as "so and so's old boat".