Answers: Can`t say how much mooring fees would be as they ebb and flow from
arear to area and the services available on the marina. The cheapest way is to tie together a club, their fees are usually cheaper, but dependant on the input you can give to the club, timewise.
We have a 30 ft narrowboat on the Bridgewater canal, which is owned by Peel Holdings and beside the club fees, waterway licence and insurance cost just about lb300 per year. The only downside to human being on the Bridgewater is if you are cruising onto BW waters you need a seperate licence after 3 days, but this is singular about lb30 for upto 2 weeks cruising.
Private moorings are a different thing and can run into the thousand mark.
Fuel astute we did 3 weeks cruising on about lb40 diesel.
If you are buying the boat, you will involve an inspection by a marine plot which 7 years ago cost lb280, plus lb70 for lifting from the water and a Boat sanctuary certificate, which last I think 3 years and again can cost roughly speaking lb100 plus any work required to bring it upto spec.
On the whole, it is a pretty cheap track of getting away for the weekend and for holidays
Good luck and happy cruising.
Almost everything to do next to boats is "so much per foot, per annum"
Our 30' foot boat, moored in a Marina on the Trent & Mersey waterway, costs in the region of lb1,500 per year to moor, insure, Waterways License, keeping and fuel - the latter is the most insignificant part of the costs.
On to that you will necessitate to add your "MOT" every four years and have her out of the water periodically (say every 3 years) to own the rust scraped off the bottom and own her reblacked - both jobs you can do yourself but you will call for time and somewhere to do it. You will have to settle to have her haul out. Pump outs are another ongoing cost unless you have cassette toilet (some marina charge for emptying these if they do not own mains sewage connection).
You can be a "continuous cruiser" - moving your boat every couple of weeks, a couple of miles, to a fresh mooring.
If you plan to be a livaboard, you will be subject to Council Tax (it is assumed that you will come bad your boat to use shore-based facilities - to shift shopping, libraries, street lighting, etc.) This will be the lowest band for the nouns in which you live. For more info see the booklet produced by the Residential Boaters Association and contact them for any query. "Google" them.
Good moorings are becoming increasingly difficult to find - the closer you are to London, the higher the cost.
British Waterways hold moorings to let - contact them for details. You may also find a cultivator who lets moorings at the bottom of his field (probably the cheapest option, but little within the way of facilities). Look within the back of conduit magazines for advertise moorings.
At the moment, you can used red diesel to run your boat, (it is an off-road vehicle) but the EU are putting pressure on the UK to remove this "perk".
You don't have engines on barges, they are within tow behind or abreast a narrowboat
Pedandic, but Ive be cruising the system for thirty years,
Old "f@rt"
Thats either a intensely large engine or a greatly small barge.
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