Looking for a residential mooring on the Thames
Matt
Can anyone offer us any advice for finding a RM on the Thames around
the Bray to Teddington area?
We are a young couple wanting to take up the live-aboard lifestyle on
a traditional narrowboat. We've done a fair chunk of research from
magazine and RBOA literature, but are getting down-hearted with the
apparent lack of residential moorings.
We were planning to find a mooring, and then buy a narrowboat
separately (we havent decided whether to build or buy second hand).
Would we have more luck buying a boat that comes with a mooring, or do
moorings get returned to an official pot for separate distribution
when the boat is sold?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Regards,
Matt
Matt
advice, here is the news since Sunday...
We have phoned Windsor, Bray, Thames Ditton, Willow Banks, Walton and
a few other marinas, but they are all coming back with a no on
offering residential moorings. Some are even saying that we will be
very lucky to find a narrowboat for sale that comes with its
residential mooring. In fact, we saw one advertised in Canalboat
magazine that looked promising, but it had (predictably in retrospect)
been snapped up already!
Anyway, are we very unlikely to find a boat + RM on the Thames within,
say, a 6 month period of hunting? Should we be looking slightly
further afield? Can anyone recommend a good brokerage company? Is
there a little known canal off the Thames brimming with moorings that
we just havent heard of?
Will keep this thread up-to-date with our news.
Thanks
Matt
Captain Beeky
> there a little known canal off the Thames brimming with moorings that
> we just havent heard of?
Matt, have you tried Cowley Peachey on the GU near the Slough arm ?
Beeky
Andrew Denny
Home Counties. It's the mooring that dare not speak its name! And on
the river - especially the Thames - is especially hard. The problem
is that it's still seen as a cheap alternative to a flat, which
frankly it isn't.
Draw a line approximately from Gloucester to the Wash, and look north
of that -it might be easier.
If you are really keen to be a liveaboard, realistically you should
first stop talking about it openly - and secondly consider relocating
your work. Instead, retain a landside postal address (even just an
accomodation address with friends) and think of being a bit
peripatetic to begin with.
I've come across many marinas, trusts and mooring places, especially
more than 50 miles from London, where they don't ask too many
questions if you simply cruise in and ask about moorings - and don't
speak about being liveaboards. And if you register at a friend's
flat, and are paying council tax there, who's to say you are a
liveaboard?
The closer to London you get, the tougher you will find mooring
restrictions. The last time I pulled in to Willowbridge nr Uxbridge,
I was told that I could have a week's temporary mooring with pleasure
(and at considerable cost), but I wasn't allowed to sleep aboard even
one night.
I stand to be gainsaid. You'll perhaps tell us next week that you've
found a cheap residential mooring just a few paces from a tube
station...
Andy B
Try looking through the three main Inland waterway magazines:
Canal & Riverboat,
Canal Boat (& Inland Waterways),
Waterways World.
These have moorings advertised and full page brokerage adverts.
Virginia Currer Marine, for one, are always advertising boats with
residential moorings.
BTW I have no connection to any of the above.
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PyroJames
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Try these guys. This looked the most poromising when I was hunting around a
year or so ago.
http://www.vcmarine.co.uk/fsres.htm
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Julian
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> advice, here is the news since Sunday...
>
> say, a 6 month period of hunting? Should we be looking slightly
> further afield? Can anyone recommend a good brokerage company? Is
> there a little known canal off the Thames brimming with moorings that
> we just havent heard of?
There is a boat for sale at Brentford with a RM have a look at:
http://www.vcmarine.co.uk
Also I know of someone that has just vacated a RM at Farncombe Boat House on
the River Wey at Godalming,
don't know if the mooring is still available though.
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Julian
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Andy B
snip
>Also I know of someone that has just vacated a RM at Farncombe Boat House on
>the River Wey at Godalming,
>don't know if the mooring is still available though.
allow them on the Wey.
Can't think of a reason why, other than snobbery.
Julian Tether
<andrew...@btopenworld-NoSpam.com> writes
>On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:24:35 +0100, "Julian" <jul...@parglena.co.uk>
>snip
>>Also I know of someone that has just vacated a RM at Farncombe Boat House on
>>the River Wey at Godalming,
>>don't know if the mooring is still available though.
>It cannot have been an official residential mooring. The NT don't
>allow them on the Wey.
Its the old boatyard managers mooring at Farncombe.
However now that he has left the mooring is still there.
It has been occupied by a friend of mine for the last year or so.
It is AFAIK the only resi mooring on the Wey that is not tied into
lock/weir keeping.
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John Cartmell
martin <mar...@wanadoo.nl> wrote:
> isn't that what drives most NT activities?
I thought that was their over the top mark-up practices in their shops. ;-(
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Adrian Stott
It beats me why NT is so anti residential moorings. Its position was
questioned by several waterways user groups when it last reviewed its
navigation management policies, but to no effect. It just seems to
think that residential boats are nasty, and that's that. Or maybe
that should be "residential boaters" <g>.
Julian, are you sure this mooring will remain residential? When other
residential moorings (e.g. at New Haw) have become vacant in the past,
NT has said that future use of the mooring must be not-res.
Adrian
Alan Hughes
"martin" <mar...@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:09:09 +0100, John Cartmell
> <jo...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >In article <6onmjv0s0dh6josns...@4ax.com>,
> > martin <mar...@wanadoo.nl> wrote:
> >> isn't that what drives most NT activities?
> >
> >I thought that was their over the top mark-up practices in their shops.
;-(
>
> ancient.
> --
> Martin
The NT are about to be incorporated into the government as 'The Ministry of
Tidy Ruins'.
Alan
Julian
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Tony keeling
Matt,
If you look on e-bay there is a residential mooring and boat for sale
in the London area for 50k starting bid. Item No. 2340514484 or just
put in "narrowboat" as a search. Hope this is of some use.
Tony
ruks...@gmail.com
ruks...@gmail.com
I know this is further up stream than you are asking however we have a residential mooring here at Reading Marine Services.
There are no facilities so you need to be self contained.
Regards
Philip
Marland
their teens in the 16 years since they asked, and a fair chance they are
divorced.
GH