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Thank you everyone, I have a husband who is very hands on we have lived "off grid" for 11 years, we are going out again on Saturday to learn to manoeuvre and sail for a few hours and will have lessons from a local training boater who moors up next door. I am also going travelling for some time abroad so I dont intend on spending any time alone without learning how to change gas bottles etc. I have stipulated that if this does not work out the boat will be sold and a house will be bought instead.

Thank you Jim, you are right in that it is a very serious decision to make and my hubby is in a huge rush to buy the boat with out having spent a night on a wide beam, me neither but I am not so keen, the cost of mooring has put me off, seeing as we will be charged for everything else on top of the £1000 every 4 months! plus £1000 a year license. I also am not comfortable with living carefully as regards how often I poo! this boat has an extra brown water tank for another 600 ltrs so I guess that's a help but more pumping out maybe, anyway because its 60x12ft then that limits where we can travel to, the initial idea was to save money which one could do with a smaller narrow boat where its possible to cc, but this isn't an option if you are employed and must be on time. Its all the gadgets and gizmos that my hubby is excited by, and I have worked out that there is some tension between people who view flash boats with a degree of hostility. and this is a shiny flash top spec boat. The other residents at the marina were a bit off with us. The caretaker was very kind and welcoming but its definitely a closed community. We shall see what develops.

Anyway, thank you to everyone who offered kind, helpful advice.

I can see what you are saying to each other you know, you are really patronising.

We are giving up a similar set up to have a new life doing something more adventurous , but think I might secretly be a bit of a coward.

Thank you, Sea Dog, WISE WORDS.

I have a husband for that shit In fact , in my experience its men that produce most of it.

I never mentioned "not liking the life", I said I wont do this if I feel dizzy.

So tell me, Ive read the books, whats the secret nasty then?

perhaps you are a knob head

ok, Ive got to start somewhere, we are going out on this boat tomorrow to have a go for a few hours with the owner, he has suggested we spend a weekend on it to experience sleeping on it. If we are both working when do we get the chance to spend "weeks" trying this out? I get your point, Im not parting with one penny if I cant stand the motion sickness thing, what are the other awful things that will happen? Why? why is this a wind up?

the mooring fees shocked me. £4500 a year it is as expensive as living in a house if we pay mooring fees, its a large boat to try to CC with.

Apperley Bridge marina, unfortunately only 3 miles from Bradford. You talk of shock a lot. whats so awful about living aboard that is going to shock me?

Hebden Bridge is like this now, I was shocked when I visited a few weeks ago, I used to live there and there we no narrow boats at all, now its bumper to bumper, very trendy thing to do apparently. I like Gin.....maybe the answer to my issue is to be permanently soaked.