Post by JohnV on Feb 10, 2018 15:18:25 GMT
I moored my first yot type boat at Galgate Marina, the narrowboat on a farmers on line mooring then a year or so CMing when I moved to L&L.
My widebeam I had on an official BW towpath mooring, living on it at weekends whilst working away then, when this boat was finally done, I moved on the marina here basically for winter then out on towpath for 8 months just moving as needed ( never had any enforcement hassles here oop Narth!)
Last year with my genny going bang I moved back to marina for a week or two to fix it, I've not moved since apart from random trips out.
I love it here, made loads of really really good friends, easy to fit in with my working life and facilities are top notch plus the local hedges i collapse in at weekend are a very comfy privet type not the normal thorny towpath hawthorn!
Same again this year for meπ
It's not for everyone obviously, my natural inclination is to put space between me and everyone else so I'm surprised I'm still here, but here I am with no plans to move off.
The price is very good, electric and my own watertap. It is not the tight spaced finger jetties beloved of marinas but also not in line "on line" There are two liveaboard boats near me both lying at 90 degrees to me, neither are too close or overlook me. The other nearby are rarely visited. It has a good community feel (several hundred boats but only a handful of liveaboards) pub/club on site (The Barge Gladys)
secure as only footpath access through boatyard to a large country park. It's a nice place to live but it's a bastard getting out as I need a big tide that actually makes prediction before I can sail