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The new anodes are on and now waiting for blacking.

We are still living on it, got some ricketty metal steps to climb, carrying the dogs up and down not easy.

Must remember not to through coffee out of window without looking first, last time the boat was out ai threw a bit of coffee out and the guy was ditectly under the window, he saw the funny side of it - eventually, like 2 days later

Do you have an onboard lavatory or do you need to climb down the ladder? Or is there a handy portable facility (i.e. a bucket)?

ZOMG.. you live on a narrowboat ? 

That is awesome. Do you have any other photo's of it ? 

9 hours ago, Dumbledore the Awesome said:

Do you have an onboard lavatory or do you need to climb down the ladder? Or is there a handy portable facility (i.e. a bucket)?

We have a proper toilet called a pump.out, which ee pump out when needed.

 

Nice!

6 hours ago, RoofGardener said:

ZOMG.. you live on a narrowboat ? 

That is awesome. Do you have any other photo's of it ? 

Will get some more when we are back in water. 

It used to be a working boat. The grey part at back is the original boatsmans cabin and engine room, we still have the original Lister 11 engine and it works lovely.

The green part was originally just the hull where they carried coal. The top was added later. 

 

Free To Roam, I'm glad the guy you accidently threw coffee on eventually saw the humorous side of it.

And don't feel too bad about it, Free To Roam, because we all make mistakes like that every so often.

I was wondering what you do for electricity and running water. 

On 8/17/2019 at 11:20 PM, freetoroam said:

The new anodes are on and now waiting for blacking.

We are still living on it, got some ricketty metal steps to climb, carrying the dogs up and down not easy.

Must remember not to through coffee out of window without looking first, last time the boat was out ai threw a bit of coffee out and the guy was ditectly under the window, he saw the funny side of it - eventually, like 2 days later

WoW!! I ship´s Mate!!

I Love ship´s as well, like Those Galleon´s out of the 1800th Century of Admiral Nelson´s Fleet!

Build Lord Nelson's HMS Victory - Visiting the Ship

https://youtu.be/mvAbP3GJe7w

About Your metal steps, alternatively one may mount an electric cable somewhere to attach to it a Frame work, to be used as an elevator for Your Pet´s, Dog´s, Yourselves´s and Coffee´s Hahhahah But seriously, those that I´m talking about, is a cable winch they usually have in the Front of a Range Rover to pull them out of the Mud, oh by the way, just had another Thought about that Winch for you guy´s! You may use that also additionally as a pulley, to may be pull your ship or something To your ship? to safety?, like Wood Logs and Branches´s in case you use a wood stove on board instead of carrying them up those metal stairs?? Just idea´s that may come in handy like a handy.

 

 

5 minutes ago, Assimilatedtohumanborg said:

WoW!! I ship´s Mate!!

I Love ship´s as well, like Those Galleon´s out of the 1800th Century of Admiral Nelson´s Fleet!

Build Lord Nelson's HMS Victory - Visiting the Ship

https://youtu.be/mvAbP3GJe7w

About Your metal steps, alternatively one may mount an electric cable somewhere to attach to it a Frame work, to be used as an elevator for Your Pet´s, Dog´s, Yourselves´s and Coffee´s Hahhahah But seriously, those that I´m talking about, is a cable winch they usually have in the Front of a Range Rover to pull them out of the Mud, oh by the way, just had another Thought about that Winch for you guy´s! You may use that also additionally as a pulley, to may be pull your ship or something To your ship? to safety?, like Wood Logs and Branches´s in case you use a wood stove on board instead of carrying them up those metal stairs?? Just idea´s that may come in handy like a handy.

 

 

My boat is not quite as big as a ship. Lol.

It is an old canal working  boat which has been modified to live on..

The top pic is of our boat being taken ourmt of the water for blacking. Really scary times, i took a pic, but my heart was going like the clappers. Watching your home in mid air!

Boatsman cabin is my husbands 'studio' for his music. 

 

 

Yes in deed, an action to hiving up any Boat is IS a scary thing! I´ve seen many such Clips where it "didn´t quite" work out like it should have!

You guy´s are very lucky to live on a Boat, listening to that Blubber sound of Water splashing at the Kiel and in the summer time, it may be quite cooling being on the Boat?, due to the water below the Kiel?