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Any narrowboat owners here? (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by FatLegTed@feddit.uk to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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I live in Ware and we have quite a few narrowboats semi permanent and passing through, looking at a couple today and a thought struck me.

How do you get mail or register for a doctor etc? Forget dentists. No one can register with them.

Broadband would be via mobile hotspots etc. Electricity via battery/panel or hookup at mooring. Water in your tanks and what have you. Can't see many postmen trudging up and down a towpath looking for the Dawntreader.

Too old and settled now, but in another life I'd quite fancy a narrowboat.

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[–] wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The moorings at Bristol harbourside have postboxes, imagine there will be some areas that have those too. I think people have a PO box though, or use a friend's address.

I'd love to live on a narrowboat but would find the off-grid living tough. I like my creature comforts and flushing toilets.

[–] FatLegTed@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Same here, but most will have flush toilets and a shower.

I used to cat sit as part time work and couple I sat for lived on a narrowboat with their 2 cats. I got the job as none of the other sitters were happy looking for a boat along a towpath 🙄

It was very nice, shower, flush toilet, tvs, woodburning stove as well as fridge, freezer microwave and gas cooker. I could quite happily have lived on that.

Some of the converted barges are enormous and very luxurious.

[–] RoryButlerMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

A friend of mine lived on a narrow boat. Was perpetually docked at a marina though and that's how they got electricity etc. Presumably there was a post station there too.

It was quite a nice built up marina too.