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Original poster

There is a bloke in a barge at the bottom of my garden.

90 replies

Justginnoschweppes · 25/03/2020 18:55

Well not technically IN my garden, but close enough to see in my living room window! It’s annoying as they moore up all the time now till the end of summer. Some even wave at me when I’m sat on the couch 🙄 his little log burner must be going as puffs of smoke are coming out of the chimney.

I’m jealous of his freedom right now or should he be moored up some where staying put? But definitely not at the bottom of my garden!

Is He BU for chugging around the county side

Or is he NBU? As technically he isn’t walking about anywhere.

OP posts:
Mordred · 25/03/2020 21:17

Could be worse. At least it's not a bloke in a barge in the garden of your bottom.

Crafting1Queen · 25/03/2020 21:25

Yes, but is it touching?

Original poster
Justginnoschweppes · 25/03/2020 21:29

Yes, but is it touching

Touching what?

OP posts:
Doubletrouble99 · 25/03/2020 21:36

I would consider buying an old boat and mooring it up there so no one else can use it!

Beebie2 · 25/03/2020 21:42

@Doubletrouble99 You’d have to buy the mooring to do that anyway, you can’t just pop your own boat there.

DeepDarkWoods · 25/03/2020 21:53

I think I would buy my own boat.

Beebie2 · 25/03/2020 22:04

To have your own boat there, you’d need to own the mooring. That’s presuming it’s for sale. Then you’d have all the associated costs of having a boat.

If all you wanted was no one to moor at the end of your garden, buying the mooring would be sufficient - I don’t think the OP wants a boat?

Doubletrouble99 · 25/03/2020 22:05

Beebie - so how does the barge owner get to tie up at the mooring at the bottom of the OP's garden, he doesn't own it either.

HelloBolloxMyOldFriend · 25/03/2020 22:07

Beebie - so how does the barge owner get to tie up at the mooring at the bottom of the OP's garden, he doesn't own it either

Also wondering this.

Potionqueen · 25/03/2020 22:14

If it’s a CART mooring anyone can moor up to 14 days there (unless it’s for a specified time limit ie 24, 48 hours0.
CART = canal and River Trust.
Boaters pay a licence fee which allows them to do this.

Beebie2 · 25/03/2020 22:16

He’s most likely on a continuous cruising license. At normal times you can stay for 14 days, and then need to move on. You can’t return to the same spot for 4 weeks. if you break the rules you get warned, if you break them often, you don’t get your license renewed.

Due to corona virus, you can currently stay in one place. They won’t be policing it during the lock down.

If the OP bought a boat, they’d need to license it -either a CC license, or buy the mooring. Not all moorings are for sale, and many come with the criteria of boat that can be kept there.

They’d also have all the associated boat costs, eg; safety certificates and insurance costs.

Beebie2 · 25/03/2020 22:17

And yes, that’s in the circumstance that it’s maintained by the canal and rivers trust.

TitianaTitsling · 25/03/2020 22:17

Yeah cheers iron now going to bed with 🎶 Wiggles all night and wiggles all day 🎶..... 😆

whateverhappenstheremore · 25/03/2020 22:35

This is like people who buy a house opposite a school and complain about parents parking there to pick up their kids ...

Zombiemum1946 · 25/03/2020 23:14

If you were to buy the mooring, could be a nice selling point ?

Binglebong · 25/03/2020 23:22

I would imagine your solicitor/surveyor (not sure which) when you bought the house should have highlighted this. Any chance of pursuing that ommision to get enough to buy the mooring?

BlueChangling · 25/03/2020 23:26

How big is this man's barge? Hmm

Is this the first time we've had a CF parking thread with a barge instead of a car?

mineofuselessinformation · 25/03/2020 23:34

Get some voile curtains.
You will be able to see out, but other people won't be able to see in.

CSIblonde · 26/03/2020 04:11

That sounds like your fencing isn't very high and/or not safe: or is it an actual mooring dock the garden runs down to, with no fence? If fenced is it low enough to climb over? The village up from us growing up, had a rape where a guy climbed over into gardens from the towpath. I'd up your home security whichever it is.

emilybrontescorsett · 26/03/2020 06:19

Does anyone else find it odd that strangers are peering through the ops window and waving at her.
If a car driver did this we’d all be thinking -weirdos.

Oldsu · 26/03/2020 08:32

This thread could have been written by me, only difference is that I OWN the mooring at the bottom of my garden during the summer I always get people mooring there despite notices, mainly because my side of the river has access to the village, pub (which has its own mooring but is always full) , and shop and easy access via the side of the house for people to use , where as the public moorings have no access not even a bridge, as yet (I am glad to say) I haven't seen any boats, worms or fairies, however if I didn't own the mooring I wouldn't dream of telling people not to moor there

OVienna · 26/03/2020 08:38

Have you explored buying it OP?

emilybrontescorsett · 26/03/2020 09:22

Oulsu that would drive me up the wall.
Can you put a more stern warning sign up or cover their boat in bird seed!!!!!

Oldsu · 26/03/2020 09:33

Emiliy notices don't seem to work, it gets pretty chaotic in summer with people trying to moor anywhere they can, but we are getting another boat this year a fixer upper as DH is FINALLY retiring this year and it will give him something to do with all his spare time, so there wont be any room for anyone else to moor

emilybrontescorsett · 26/03/2020 09:47

Good for you Oldsu there some cheeky buggers around.

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