Re: "Squatters' Rights" abolished : Sat Sep 01, 2012 2:06 pm  

The Video Ref wrote:

In a moment of madness I nearly bought a 37 foot live-aboard motorcruiser last year. Used, of course.

I visited Abingdon, Doncaster, Lincoln and York marinas, oh and one in Cambridgeshire. I don't recall seeing any security beyond a keycard access gate.

So to get in and live on your boat they'd have to break in through the keycard gate every day , yep, thats a form of security, right tharr...

I've slept aboard a 40ft racing yacht in November during an icy spell, wouldn't like to live permanently on one, fibreglass isn't such a good insulator from the cold although when you're all sealed in below decks it can get very humid, which then gets very cold and wet when you go to bed.

And walking on a plastic deck after the first icy night of the winter isn't recommended either.

Re: "Squatters' Rights" abolished : Sat Sep 01, 2012 2:07 pm  

Any half-decent boat will have GPS and AIS on-board, along with any other tracking devices. On an inland waterway with a speed limit of 4mph, there's not gonna be any quick getaway. And anyone twocing a boat is guilty of theft, simple as and as such a fairly simple crime to deal with.

The value in most boats is the engine, that's why outboards are usually just chainsawed off the transom and away.

Re: "Squatters' Rights" abolished : Sat Sep 01, 2012 2:10 pm  

I'd consider locking my doors and windows when I go on holiday as a form of security.

If I come home to find squatters have broken in then it's my own fault for not boarding the doors and windows over presumably?

Re: "Squatters' Rights" abolished : Sat Sep 01, 2012 2:12 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

I'd consider locking my doors and windows when I go on holiday as a form of security.

If I come home to find squatters have broken in then it's my own fault for not boarding the doors and windows over presumably?

I never had you down as a Daily Mail kneejerker.

Re: "Squatters' Rights" abolished : Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:22 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

Maybe because any 'debate' with people like you, after 5 posts in you automatically claim to have 'handed out arses on a plate', or want to murder people....

All child-like.

He would be free to scurry off and complain to his pet Admin that he didn't like playing with the big boys

Re: "Squatters' Rights" abolished : Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:19 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote:

So to get in and live on your boat they'd have to break in through the keycard gate every day , yep, thats a form of security, right tharr...

I've slept aboard a 40ft racing yacht in November during an icy spell, wouldn't like to live permanently on one, fibreglass isn't such a good insulator from the cold although when you're all sealed in below decks it can get very humid, which then gets very cold and wet when you go to bed.

And walking on a plastic deck after the first icy night of the winter isn't recommended either.

It's hardly proper security when the fence is about 4 ft high.

Have a friend who livesaboard. I thought very much the same as you, but with a combination of heaters and de-humidifiers he is fine. Amazed we have never ended up in the water, the amount of times we have stumbled back to his boat p1ssed as farts.

Re: "Squatters' Rights" abolished : Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:55 pm  

The Video Ref wrote:

It's hardly proper security when the fence is about 4 ft high.

Have a friend who livesaboard. I thought very much the same as you, but with a combination of heaters and de-humidifiers he is fine. Amazed we have never ended up in the water, the amount of times we have stumbled back to his boat p1ssed as farts.

I remember staying on my dad's canal cruiser with a few lads from the college RL team back in the early 90s. We'd moored up in Lancaster and hit the town, stumbling back to the cruiser about 3am, wasted. This was early February, freezing.

Unfortunately a storm had blown up while we'd been out and the cruiser was being smashed against the canal walls. After a while we panicked and decided to move it across the canal, about 50 metres up, under a couple of bridges where it was more sheltered.

So with yours truly at the helm, wasted, wearing boxers and a big woolly jumper, we started to move. Bloody thing wouldn't shift against the wind so I had to gun the engine - forgetting that my mate still wasn't on board. He took a running jump and ended up hanging with his legs in the water, clinging on to the rails from the prow, being dragged through the canal, in only his boxer shorts, which were progressively being dragged down his legs. All I could do was thrash the engine and get us across to the sheltered area and he eventually got aboard.

Guess you had to be there but it was fookin hilarious.

Re: "Squatters' Rights" abolished : Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:26 am  

I wonder how many people on this thread, pontificating about taxation of assets, actually have any assets.

The Sin Bin "tax someone else to pay for my ideals" in evidence, as ever.

Re: "Squatters' Rights" abolished : Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:00 am  

Standee wrote:

I wonder how many people on this thread, pontificating about taxation of assets, actually have any assets.

The Sin Bin "tax someone else to pay for my ideals" in evidence, as ever.

Most people have assets out here in the real world.

Having owned my own business for 29 years, I certainly do.

I'm just so pleased that I haven't turned into the selfish "look at me but fook you" bas'tad business owner model that many fall into.

Re: "Squatters' Rights" abolished : Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:07 am  

Standee wrote:

I wonder how many people on this thread, pontificating about taxation of assets, actually have any assets.

The Sin Bin "tax someone else to pay for my ideals" in evidence, as ever.

I thought you'd gone?