Hi Jasmin, glad you have your voice back. I think you covered the mooring situation very well, so well done and look forward to the next update.

Thanks for the rundown of "THE RULES"! I can't get enough of the real-world canal experiences, so that I'll be ready in a few years to come to that side of the Atlantic and have a go. Cheers!

thank you for your great video, been mulling over buying narrow or widebeam am disabled in some ways still feel like making it happen, look forward to more videos, so nice and encouragingx

Love your cheery attitude. Blessings from across the pond.

Excellent video lots of useful information thank you for shearing this video as I will be buy a narrow boat next year fingers crossed ☺👍

Nice explanations and video!

Very refreshing you come across great. Great you are doing videos

Very useful! Thank you!

Nice one Narrowboat Adventure, and thank you.

I just subscribed and I'm looking forward to watching your videos!

fab video keep up the great work

Useful info. Thanks

Very nicely done young lady, thank you.

I would have thought that mooring in one place by a tow path, would help the CRT because you wouldn't be using the locks and this would save on maintenance. As for council tax, when I lived on a boat thirty years ago in Sussex it was called the Poll Tax. When I received a bill, I phoned the authority and asked what it was for, they said street lighting and rubbish collection etc, I said fantastic as the mud berth I was in on the river had no lighting and I had to dispose of my own trash, so I asked when they would start work on the lighting and what day they would come to my boat to pick up my rubbish. After this phone call they never sent me another bill.

Great video

Thankyou Jasmine..

Do you have a home mooring? Have you moored in London? Just back from visiting the Regent's Canal near Kings Cross. Great fun! Love your videos!!

Really good video x

Hi Jasmin, as a continuous cruiser do you go for a Gold (CRT+EA) licence or just a CRT licence? Is EA mainly just for Thames?

Thanx Jasmin ! I am very intresset to test this lift under som Times' and I love your film !! Sorry for bad english ! 🙏😘/Björne Sweden

Awesome

Hello, I am Graham, I live in Cape Town South Africa, the most beautiful city in the world. on a recent vlog seen by me you mentioned a web site that has narrow boats for sale, the name ends in duck, I did not catch the first part of the name, could you please enlighten me as I am looking for a boat to purchase in the next 2 or 3 years once I have saved up enough. I have found some of your vlogs quite interesting and do enjoy watching your and the dark destroyer, David, doing your thing and informing the world about your antics. Keep it up and hope to see you cruising the cut some day in the future. Oh, Happy easter, hope you get lots of choc to eat. G

awesome video , you remind me of the war time poster with the girl with a bandanna and it says we can do it, and also one other thing crossed my mind is you said if your not feeling well you dont have to move you boat, curiosity does pms follow one of those categories , dont mind me just thinking out loud and ya

first!!thanks again.

Very useful cheers ......

Good video, on a different note, what happened to your cushion covers - I recall you asked for colour choices?

Interesting!

I was told by email that I had to move my boat a minimum of 1km each time.

Hi and thank's for the video. I'm in the process of purchasing a 70ft narrowboat, I too will be a continus cruiser but on the Bridgewater Canal so need a platinum licence (about £1750 per year just for the Bridgewater) which oon that canal allows 28 days in one place (may help people going on the Bridgewater) I get my boat in November and you mention about moving from A, B, C, D, E now if you know the area would this mean I can move from lets say Altrincham, Timperley, Sale, Stretford then back to Altrincham and back up the canal?? Please help anyne as I cannot get a home mooring between Stretford to Altrincham as I need to be close to each of these areas as I work near Manchester Airport and rely on Family and public transport as I am not allowed to drive due to ill health,

I have an idea ... Continuous cruise the longest stretch of canal that has no locks ... I believe it is on the Lancaster ... About 40+ miles ( 60+ kilometers) ... I hope my conversions are close ... Is this section available for widebeams ??? ... I would be a solo boater and have difficulties with steps/stairs ...

Thanks for the video. I am searching for a boat (narrowboat likely due to lengthbut not only) to live on for CC too. Any suggestions from anyone? I've lived on one and maintained one for a year (ex girlfriend's 40 footer Springer) and so am happy and capable to start with a (safe) box of rust and rehab it completely. Thanks for reading! Craig

I’m a Canadian who’d love to retire to a narrow boat. I’m a follower of a number of channels. I never will due to $$$ however I can dream. 😍😊🇨🇦 Herein Canada on the Trent Severn you buy a lock pass daily, weekly, not sure beyond that. If you moor it’s probably at a lock and it’s a nightly fee. Otherwise we all moor in marinas, and in winter the boat comes out of the water, of course.

Hi Jasmin, I'm watching your videos as part of my research of living on a Narrowboat (as well as enjoying your general life content of course), and this video has answered questions that many people have about continuous cruising. Thanks. However, sorry to go a little off topic, but can you mention your experience of spiders on the boat. I know it sounds bizarre, but its a real phobia of mine. Do you get lots of them? Thanks.

Thanks for posting! I'm intrigued have you ever fallen foul of the rules or think you have been treated unfairly by Cart.

Hi, thank you for this info. My question is how is this policed? How do the CRT know where your boat is?

I think I understand the difference between canal and river (under CRT), canal: mooring on one side private on the other, rivers: private on both sides i.e. no ware to moor, but what about river-navigations like on the river Lee.

Hi I am just buying a boat at Leicester marina....I know nothing. What are the immediate things I need to know to survive?..I am a sixty year old single bloke...James

Think of the water ways as high ways would you like to try to go to the mall and find that you can't get on the high way as it is already full of people who just want to park and live in their car's or van's. Well I probably shouldn't say to much as I don't live there and I don't need to deal with those problems. Just I guess trying to see it from both sides as a boater in the USA

I believe there were rules (which may have been superceded) that you had to move out of the Parish after 14 days, and into another Parish, and not allowed to return for x amount of time (unknown). The requirement to move 20 miles a year doesn't really sound like 'continuous cruising', but what do I know!

Cool I will look for a weather mooring next 1/10/18. thanks.

Wow she's got lovely eyes

Although I know that CRT licence fees can be quite high (depending largely on the size of your boat) but I would add they do get a significant amount of income from membership fees - from people just like me !! 😎

Small point. The boat licence fee is the same regardless of whether or not you have a mooring. Obviously if you do have a mooring then you have to pay for that in addition to your boat licence.

Where do you buy your licence? If you're about to enter the Thames or the Wey, do have to buy your licence in advance or can you buy one once you're already navigating on that stretch of river?

Next time you're along the Wey let me know, that's my dog walking territory so I'll give you a wave or maybe have a drink with you and your partner in one of the excellent pubs as you approach Guildford.

What arrangements have you for Doctors, if ou should need one? Do you know any families that live aboard a boat, not marina based and have children in schools?

you said something about the council, which I assume you refer to your local governing body. So my question is how or where do you vote?

I was told by a person who has a liveaboard in a marina that you don't have to pay the CRT licence fee because it is included in the mooring fee?

I live in texas usa what is it like to shop and resupply your boat when traveling

fab vlog but do have one question.. Can you move from a to b to c..d..e..f..g.. and then back f..e..d..c..b..a.. or do you have to go back to a again and start from there? many thanks and keep the vids coming :)

Interesting and thanks for sharing. Your rules over there, on your side of the pond, can be confusing. Also, it looks a bit like your hair got a coloring and a different style, maybe a trim?

These rules are very easy. ....for those who feel they are extreme be thankful..you're not in California or Hawaii.. :)

I like your videos. Very useful for those looking to live life on the cut. Would be nice to know of various different ways people can earn an income while continuously cruising.

How can they enforce a rule to move with no minimum?

Thanks Jasmin - very helpful video! My girlfriend and I are considering moving onto the canals in September, but we need to stay close-ish to Kings Cross for her commute. Do you know if there many continuous cruiser mooring opportunities on the Regent's canal?

As I understand it, you only pay Council Tax on a Home Mooring if you're actually living onboard your boat. If you have a non-residential Cruising Berth, then you're not subject to Council Tax (which you'll be paying at your main residence, anyway).

They have volunteers who go around snooping on boaters moments quite clever being a charity crt dosent have to pay people to snoop anywhere else that would be illegal and well creepy

So, by the sounds of it they've pretty much got you by the buster browns, no matter what you choose to do you pay either way....

How do you know there is a mooring space ahead? Then you get there and it is already occupied....

What are the rules of mooring? She who gets there first wins!🚣🏾🚣🏼🚣🏼🚣🏼. If you use a fixed winter mooring you might consider one of the fuel boats that have gas, coal, wood etc to visit you if your going to be there for the winter. JMHO Jim Derry, New Hampshire

I dream of buying a narrow boat and exploring the canals. I am American and live in Chicago. I trace the canals on Google Earth for hours.

Is it nowhere to be found or am I looking wrong? How much is the boat license? Also 20miles is really not much at all. If you're actually interested in the boat lifestyle you'll make it even without trying.

What do people do who live in a conventional home and use the boat for cruising at weekends? In other words how do they moor during the week?

So what is it the trust is trying to accomplish? Are they trying to get boats that are not new and luxurious off the canals? Do old beater boats upset the "ruling class"?

CTR receive nearly half the mooring fee for each boat in a marina, so a large marina says 250 berths would pay CTR about 40'000 per month. This is why they hassle continuous cruisers because they don't get as much out of them. CTR is very greedy, they are not very charitable, they are obsessed with money, the directors and bigwigs have massive salaries, charity is just to exploit the obvious loopholes. Also, they do as little maintenance as possible, preferring to let things break first rather than maintain. They dredged part of the K&A a few months ago, took the sludge from the middle of the canal and just dumped it in the water along the towpath side making it even harder to Moore. Recently the local councils have been expressing an interest, pretending to care about the welfare of boaters and if they would like permanent home moorings? The real reason for this is they are aware that many have escaped to the canal for a cheaper and freer lifestyle, so they cant allow that when there's money to be had from home moorings and council tax. I would advise, warn any live-aboard boaters to tell the council to stick it and have no contact with them, they will only ruin this last little bit of freedom we have.

Hello Jasmine!!! Where do you live?

charming young woman...thanks a lot for the info ;)

Must you keep a log to document that you have traveled 20 miles in the previous 10 months?

Where do You get the money to pay the fees

Screw it! There’s too many adverts! Pretty soon I’ll be watching knout!

Prices????

I know you travel further so this is not aimed at you, but the 20 mile a year minimum always makes me laugh, we regularly will cover 30 miles in a weekend on our 16 foot cruiser. Moving less than a mile every 2 weeks can hardly be classed as bona fidi navigating, I often wonder if the 20 was a typo and is missing a "0".

0:05 Nice wooden underpants but modern science has provided us with more comfortable materials. 😉

Please add costs into any future videos as that information is important, particularly for the uninitiated. Thank you.

Ahoy I'm John love your video jasmine if you pass my way give me a call

If you don't know the law or rules, then why are you doing a video on it?

Thanks jasmin are you single

I live Wales and London let's meet up go for hot meal go dancing r you up for it