4 January 2016, 14:45
My Ex who I share two children with is just about to make the move from 4 bed semi to narrowboat , not a million miles from you Sunna , just to the south of Gloucester , bought a 48ft (smallish)boat as my two kids have flown the coop leaving just her and a younger child , she can't operate the boat at the mo and places that give tuition don't start til the spring , not very up on it but I believe you have to have a waterways type licence/permit for the boat but no pilot/rya type licence needed to operate the controls , she is staying in the same vicinity at a marina with all the facilities but I think if you just live on the canal network you have to move where you tie up every fortnight, another friend has a 70ft boat he lives on and does the moving thing around the Nantwich/middlewich area , I can ask about the marina fee's when I next see her if you like.
Nothing is fool proof for a sufficiently talented fool!!!!