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05-20-24, 01:41 PM | #1 |
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You Brits are SO Lucky!
Over 2000 miles of Canals that can actually be navigated!
I'd KILL to have a 54 foot Narrow Boat to just travel as much as I could of those! Granted just the boat itself would cost me over $150,000 and that's NOT brand new! At 2 or 3 miles per hour, not counting lock times and other reasons to stop? I'd probably die before I could travel all that.
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05-20-24, 03:27 PM | #2 |
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I've got a mate from way back who bought a narrow-boat the year before last and does just this. I do envy him so. He posts a lot of his pics etc on his Facebook page - so we can properly hate his guts
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05-20-24, 03:42 PM | #3 |
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@Jeff-Groves. I'll sell you a small boat that just came over from France, it's only been used once and it's got a nearly newish outboard motor in it, (by nearly newish I mean built sometime in the last 50 years). It seats up to 30, if you rent it out you could get a 100 in if you're desperate for cash, I'll knock a few quid off for all the puke they left in the bottom of it, what do you say to that then?.
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05-20-24, 04:44 PM | #4 |
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I just watched Season 1 of "Cruising the Cut". May be from 2015 but I'm SO jealous!
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05-20-24, 04:55 PM | #5 |
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You could do it much cheaper in Bangkok.
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05-20-24, 05:12 PM | #6 |
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Went on a narrow boat in 2005 from the Crewe area to Llangollen. I know I can never afford this again but it sure was an experience for a lifetime.
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