Most people arrive at the canals sideways: a hire week, a towpath walk, a friend who's moved aboard. This is the reading for that stage, in the order it tends to matter. Nothing here's trying to sell you a boat.
Read these in this order
- What is a narrowboat?
- What is a canal boat called?
- Life on a narrowboat
- Can you legally live on one?
- How deep is a canal?
- Living aboard in retirement
- What to take on a hire boat
Buying for someone off on a hire boat?
The next lock
Once this stage is behind you, what follows is buying her: The survey, the licence, the mooring and the running numbers, joined up.