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Posted on 01/12/2022 4:06:03 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
A woman has revealed how she has managed to save more than $27,000 on bills and rent since moving into a narrowboat.
Elizabeth Earle, 33, first bought her narrowboat, the Leviathan, for $5,200 in 2019 and has since spent an extra $16,500 on renovations and decor over the past two years.
“My bills are extremely minimal, I’ve gone from paying $1,642 a month with rent, gas and electric to just $347 a month on the boat.”
“The rent for my marina spot at Mancetter is $164 a month, but it allows me to use the facilities, so that’s been quite nice during the winter as I’ve been able to get hot showers – as I’ve not managed to get the gas and hot water sorted yet.”
“I pay $131 a month for my boating license, boat insurance is $10 a month and the Canal and River Trust tax is $136.”
“I cook off a camp stove and rely on my log burner to keep me warm.”
“I also love my wood burner, it makes the boat so cozy on cold nights. It’s the heart of the home.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I have a 40 ft sailboat in Ventura Ca. Definitely comfortable. Never lived on it but have spent weeks there by myself. Yep, in the summer everyone is out and about. In the winter everyone is huddled on the boat with their space heaters. I have live aboard all around me.
Cute! Picture of the Queen on her tea cup:
Might have been the fault of an American editor who was supposed to tranlate pounds into dollars for a U.S publication.
What does "bubbling" a boat mean?
Geez. Take a chill pill, darlin’. You’re stinking up the place.
Maybe, but if the same conversion were applied to all of the amounts, the total should have been correct.
Could have been a typo of one or more of the numbers, too.
I was going to make a comment that those taxes and stuff was really high - glad it isn’t quite that bad.
One of the kids (and mine) favorite book to read was about a group of animals (an otter, a mouse named “Minty”, etc.) that buy a houseboat and live on some canal in England for awhile. Lots of fun adventures!
Knock if off!
Bubbling a boat causes the deeper water around the boat to be circulated toward the surface. The deeper water is warmer and by circulating it upward, the water at the surface doesn’t freeze.
This is usually done with a compressor blowing air into something that looks like a garden hose which has a bunch of holes punched in it and this hose lays on the bottom beneath the boat.
Wow! Thanks for the boat bubbling explanation. Ingenious!
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