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Hi Everyone and pleased to meet you all, I am new to the forum and am looking at purchasing my first boat. Now, please bare with me as a complete newbie and beginner but I am asking this question because I was always told 'if you don't ask, you don't know' and I am struggling to find the answer online or at least a CLEAR answer. I hope you can all help. I am always ready to listen and ready to learn. I have spent the last 15 years travelling non stop to every corner of the globe as part of my career and am looking at slowing down and a slight change of pace and joining the wonderful narrowboat community has been something I have been interested in for years. I have travelled all over the world and seen next to nothing of the country I live in and this seems like a perfect way to do that. I have been reading and researching as much as possible and can't quite find a clear answer to my question about what type of mooring I need and should look for. What counts as residential and leisure and what's applicable with MY specific situation. I understand the principles of both but wanted to reach out to the real experts, the people who do this all the time, you men and women of the forum. I won't be quitting my touring and musical work straight away, just slowing down. For me my average work cycle would be: Away working for 4 weeks, home for 2 weeks OR Away working for about 8 weeks, home for 4 weeks. I am trying to work out what sort of mooring you all would suggest for someone in my situation where I would be away from the boat for one or two months but MAY be home for a month or so. I guess the real parts of the question of mooring are about boat security and safety when away for potentially two months BUT ALSO if I am home and on the boat for 4 or 5 weeks in one go then does that mean I have to try to find a residential mooring? Again, I apologise for the questions and LONG message but I am hoping to join all of you in this community and see you all as experts. Thank you Danny
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Hi everyone. I just found this forum so decided to join. When my plans to move to spain were scuppered by brexit I started to wonder about life on a canal boat, so I joined the forum to get advise from other people who have done it. I want to know if its possible to get unlimited wifi access, a good signal suitable for using social media and webcam and how much does it cost, I also have 4 dogs to accommodate as well as myself so need the most space I can get without costing the earth. My motrgage will be finished in around 18mths and need some work done on my house to get it ready to sell, then was going to perhaps look for a widebeam that I can afford. If anyone has any tips and advice for me I would love to hear from you. I've never even driven a dinghy before and am worried about how I will learn how to drive the boat, especially as I need a good size one. Look forward to hearing from you, thanxs, Sharon.
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Can anyone help? I've recently registered on the site but seem to be having some problems. Every time I log in the site doesn't recognise my password and I have to reset it. Even though I reset it to the original password, it still doesn't recognise it next time I log in. Also I can't log into the chat facility. It says may group doesn't have access, but I'm not in a group. Well as far as I know I'm not. I've sent 3 or 4 messages to the organisers, via the site message facility, and have had no reply. Is there a tech problem with the site or something, can anyone help? Cheers Giggs
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