MickeyDuff Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 47 minutes ago, cuttsie said: Our Barge Nidd was moored in the basin at one time , she weighed 60 tons and was 61 feet long by 14ft wide . She carried Coal into Sheffield in the war and steel out, built in 1936 of iron , She is now in Switzerland and used as a Hotel boat How many years ago was that? Twenty plus I imagine, times have changed a lot since then and as said above prices for licensing and mooring fees have risen considerably. Also renting has been clamped down on be CaRT due to sub-letting and lack of accountability for the rented boat. This all came about from the rented boats in popular high housing price areas like London and the K&A canal. You could quite easy rent a house in Sheffield for less than the cost of renting a boat if you had to pay boat rent, licence and mooring fees. The yearly licence for the boat mentioned above would roughly be aprox £1650 and for a decent leisure moorings anything from £3.5k-£5k if you can find them for that size. add on insurance, running cost and maintenance, not as cheap as people imagine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palomar Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 When I lived on one I approached a farmer with a field adjoining the canal and said how much to moor here half the year, all I need to do is walk across the field and through the gate to the road? We agreed on about £700 a year. The rest of the year I moved about, you could stay at any public mooring for 2 weeks for nothing. There was an annual fee for using canals, that was a bit more but not eye watering. Electricity came from a wind generator and the engine when moving charging up leisure batteries. Heat from coal, Gas from large bottles. It all came to much less than I was renting the house out for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuttsie Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 1 hour ago, MickeyDuff said: How many years ago was that? Twenty plus I imagine, times have changed a lot since then and as said above prices for licensing and mooring fees have risen considerably. Also renting has been clamped down on be CaRT due to sub-letting and lack of accountability for the rented boat. This all came about from the rented boats in popular high housing price areas like London and the K&A canal. You could quite easy rent a house in Sheffield for less than the cost of renting a boat if you had to pay boat rent, licence and mooring fees. The yearly licence for the boat mentioned above would roughly be aprox £1650 and for a decent leisure moorings anything from £3.5k-£5k if you can find them for that size. add on insurance, running cost and maintenance, not as cheap as people imagine. We moored on the Trent no cost private land . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickeyDuff Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 2 hours ago, cuttsie said: We moored on the Trent no cost private land . A bit different being in a Marina in the city centre though with facilities and the convenience of being close to the transport infrastructure, work, shops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuttsie Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 2 minutes ago, MickeyDuff said: A bit different being in a Marina in the city centre though with facilities and the convenience of being close to the transport infrastructure, work, shops. We used take our tender to Nottingham or Long Eaton no problem , crossed the Trent every morning to go for daily paper , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuttsie Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Just now, cuttsie said: We used take our tender to Nottingham or Long Eaton no problem , crossed the Trent every morning to go for daily paper , Our mooring was at Barton in Fabis farmers land . 10 mins into Nottingham on A453 by car . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuttsie Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Just now, cuttsie said: Our mooring was at Barton in Fabis farmers land . 10 mins into Nottingham on A453 by car . Boat yard at Red Hill Marina , Daughter had her boat built there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickeyDuff Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 8 minutes ago, cuttsie said: We used take our tender to Nottingham or Long Eaton no problem , crossed the Trent every morning to go for daily paper , If you can get private moorings on private land good, but most can’t so have to pay for Marina moorings and a marina mooring in the city centre is expensive and if your on CaRT water you need a CaRT licence, as mentioned by others it’s not cheap. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuttsie Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 3 hours ago, MickeyDuff said: If you can get private moorings on private land good, but most can’t so have to pay for Marina moorings and a marina mooring in the city centre is expensive and if your on CaRT water you need a CaRT licence, as mentioned by others it’s not cheap. I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Swaine Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 On 10/03/2024 at 19:28, Padders said: I know a lad who worked on one delivering to the Indian restaurant's down Attercliffe. They were known as "The onion bhajis" You're surely taking the pitta there Padders! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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