Landlord Harassment

[Hazy-Haze]

The main positive for me, to having a boat, is you can move it. You get fed up of living in Manchester, move to Huddersfield or down to London or somewhere else on the network. If you work from home, then move anywhere you want. I saw two berths were available last month at the CRT moorings at Melbourne on the Pocklington Canal and for me, living up there would be sweet (York is about 18 miles away, Hull is about 35 mins south east, you can get to Leeds inside an hour). Perfectly quiet location away from the world. You would probably need Starlink for the internet, but if you wanted peace and quiet, it's as good as it gets.

That flexibility is the biggest selling point for me. If I was at a marina and getting stress and crap from them, i'd say fk it and i'd move somewhere else. i could fight it and with that comes massive amounts of additonal stress. But I am getting older and wiser, so i would just say fk the stress and i'd be gone. But I work as a contractor and have structured my life so i can up and go at will. If you are stuck in a job that won't allow flexibility then it would be harder, but not impossible. I'd love to know which marina the OP is at, so I can add them to my shitlist of places to be avoided.

 

[S.O.H™]

The main positive for me, to having a boat, is you can move it. You get fed up of living in Manchester, move to Huddersfield or down to London or somewhere else on the network. If you work from home, then move anywhere you want. I saw two berths were available last month at the CRT moorings at Melbourne on the Pocklington Canal and for me, living up there would be sweet (York is about 18 miles away, Hull is about 35 mins south east, you can get to Leeds inside an hour). Perfectly quiet location away from the world. You would probably need Starlink for the internet, but if you wanted peace and quiet, it's as good as it gets.

That flexibility is the biggest selling point for me. If I was at a marina and getting stress and crap from them, i'd say fk it and i'd move somewhere else. i could fight it and with that comes massive amounts of additonal stress. But I am getting older and wiser, so i would just say fk the stress and i'd be gone. But I work as a contractor and have structured my life so i can up and go at will. If you are stuck in a job that won't allow flexibility then it would be harder, but not impossible. I'd love to know which marina the OP is at, so I can add them to my shitlist of places to be avoided.

A man walks into a department store looking to buy a fish hook. The clerk, who happens to be a Rasta man, sells him the hook, but then asks, "So, what you gwan do with dat hook?"The man says he's going fishing down by the coast. The clerk replies, "Well, if you goin' fishing, you goin' to need a boat." So, he sells him a top-of-the-line twin-engine fishing boat.Then he asks, "How you gonna get dat boat to the water?" The man says he'll tow it with his Audi. The clerk shakes his head and says, "Dat car can't pull dat boat, mon," so he sells him a heavy-duty 4x4 truck to tow it. Later, the store boss walks by, sees the huge sale, and is furious. He asks the clerk, "Are you crazy? A guy comes in for one fish hook and you sell him a boat and a 4x4 truck?!"The clerk calmly replies, "No sah, he didn't come in for a fish hook. He came in to buy a box of tampons for his wife, and I told him, 'Well, since your weekend is already mashed up, you might as well go catch some fish.'"

 

[Grumbleweed]

The main positive for me, to having a boat, is you can move it. You get fed up of living in Manchester, move to Huddersfield or down to London or somewhere else on the network. If you work from home, then move anywhere you want. I saw two berths were available last month at the CRT moorings at Melbourne on the Pocklington Canal and for me, living up there would be sweet (York is about 18 miles away, Hull is about 35 mins south east, you can get to Leeds inside an hour). Perfectly quiet location away from the world. You would probably need Starlink for the internet, but if you wanted peace and quiet, it's as good as it gets.

That flexibility is the biggest selling point for me. If I was at a marina and getting stress and crap from them, i'd say fk it and i'd move somewhere else. i could fight it and with that comes massive amounts of additonal stress. But I am getting older and wiser, so i would just say fk the stress and i'd be gone. But I work as a contractor and have structured my life so i can up and go at will. If you are stuck in a job that won't allow flexibility then it would be harder, but not impossible. I'd love to know which marina the OP is at, so I can add them to my shitlist of places to be avoided.

That Melbourne bit involves the Derwent, nice countryside but access is from the tidal river Ouse at the Barmby Barrage and can be very tricky to navigate, I've been down the Ouse to Selby a few times, always on a neap tide, first time I did it I'd 'Paint it black' blasting by the Stones with a J in my mouth, you're coming downstream with the ebb tide at speed and have to turn round and hold the boat in the flow as you edge sideways out of the flow to get in the lock.

The Pock canal isn't fully navigable yet but they've been restoring it for years, one lock at a time and makes for a good ramble along the side of it.

 

[Hazy-Haze]

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That Melbourne bit involves the Derwent, nice countryside but access is from the tidal river Ouse at the Barmby Barrage and can be very tricky to navigate, I've been down the Ouse to Selby a few times, always on a neap tide, first time I did it I'd 'Paint it black' blasting by the Stones with a J in my mouth, you're coming downstream with the ebb tide at speed and have to turn round and hold the boat in the flow as you edge sideways out of the flow to get in the lock.

The Pock canal isn't fully navigable yet but they've been restoring it for years, one lock at a time and makes for a good ramble along the side of it.

Yeah the turn in on the Ouse looks borderline crazy, doing a 180 with the flow to then power back into the lock. How far up the Derwent can you get nowadays? I saw some old vids on YT and it looked pretty overgrown north of the Pock turn off, but i've seen odd snippets saying Sutton Bridge is possible and Stamford Bridge might be possible, but nothing recent. Anyway it's one of those journeys i'd like to do eventually. Another one being the Wash from Boston on to the Great Ouse and possibly the middle level navigation and the Nene.

Anyway it's a couple of years away for me before I can get a boat. For now YT is my educator on most things and at some point, at the behest of my nephew, I will do the RYA Inland Waterways Helmsman and a radio course.

 

[Grumbleweed]

Yeah it

Yeah the turn in on the Ouse looks borderline crazy, doing a 180 with the flow to then power back into the lock. How far up the Derwent can you get nowadays? I saw some old vids on YT and it looked pretty overgrown north of the Pock turn off, but i've seen odd snippets saying Sutton Bridge is possible and Stamford Bridge might be possible, but nothing recent. Anyway it's one of those journeys i'd like to do eventually. Another one being the Wash from Boston on to the Great Ouse and possibly the middle level navigation and the Nene.

Anyway it's a couple of years away for me before I can get a boat. For now YT is my educator on most things and at some point, at the behest of my nephew, I will do the RYA Inland Waterways Helmsman and a radio course.

Stammy Bridge was doable the few years back, dunno about now as whoever manages the lock at Sutton has neglected it, riparian rights and a chalk river having land owners block access was said to be the problem.

I've done Boston in the boat in a previous pic, stood at the top of Boston Stump with a reefer of home grown and binoculars looking out at the Wash weighing the odds of getting to the drains from the end of the Witham, the girlfriend of the time said no so we turned back and meandered as far as Loughborough, which was cool in a 17 footer from York.

The OP's situation saddened me as I know a few stoners moored on the Ouse without let or hinderance, most bills likely cash payments and when it's that way you don't really exist on paper, which to be fair is the pull of the river to a lot.

 

[Hazy-Haze]

I don't know where he is on the system, but i get the feeling he is more in the southern network, but I could be wrong. I find people further North tend to be a lot more tolerant. Once you get down to London way, they are all up their own arses and lots of NIMBY types. Up here it's more of a "if you aren't causing me issues, what do I care" type attitude.

A 17 footer is pretty small. There's me probably looking for a 40-48ft boat eventually. I wouldn't have thought a 17 footer would have been stable unless it was a mill pond day. Well I guess if you had a lot of ballast it might have worked.

It's sad that you probably can't get past Sutton. it looked a real interesting journey on those vids, one vid called it UK's African Queen and it sure looked overgrown in places. But that's exactly what I like if I'm adventuring.

Do you still get the odd body floating down the Ouse? I was up in York between 2001-2003 at Askham Bryan College doing Arboriculture. First day I went to York to find a bank a body floated down the river past me (parked in a car park near the bridge that goes into the town centre). Managing a body recovery on my first day in York, lol. Had two guys pull it to the side, called the police, they turned up sharpish on a RHIB and dealt with it. I think someone went off a bridge upstream somewhere the night before. but given the flow rate it was probably well up.

 

[Hazy-Haze]

Total typo, should have been 2021-23.

Guessing the shock is to the body. I've seen a few so I find it a sad thing, but it doesn't affect me emotionally any more, not at the time anyway. It's the one inevitability in life that we can't escape from. After finding one of my grandparents and my aunt, I hate to be blunt, but it's not a thing any more for me. A body is a body.

 

[Grumbleweed]

I don't know where he is on the system, but i get the feeling he is more in the southern network, but I could be wrong. I find people further North tend to be a lot more tolerant. Once you get down to London way, they are all up their own arses and lots of NIMBY types. Up here it's more of a "if you aren't causing me issues, what do I care" type attitude.

A 17 footer is pretty small. There's me probably looking for a 40-48ft boat eventually. I wouldn't have thought a 17 footer would have been stable unless it was a mill pond day. Well I guess if you had a lot of ballast it might have worked.

It's sad that you probably can't get past Sutton. it looked a real interesting journey on those vids, one vid called it UK's African Queen and it sure looked overgrown in places. But that's exactly what I like if I'm adventuring.

Do you still get the odd body floating down the Ouse? I was up in York between 2001-2003 at Askham Bryan College doing Arboriculture. First day I went to York to find a bank a body floated down the river past me (parked in a car park near the bridge that goes into the town centre). Managing a body recovery on my first day in York, lol. Had two guys pull it to the side, called the police, they turned up sharpish on a RHIB and dealt with it. I think someone went off a bridge upstream somewhere the night before. but given the flow rate it was probably well up.

It's not uncommon to read of folk drowning in the Ouse, usually going in in the town centre after drinking but I've never seen one, more common now than 20 years back, I've seen the odd dead cow floating down in the floods though.

That college is close to me funnily enough!

 

[Hazy-Haze]

I lived there for 9 months, on and off during my first year. Worst part it was in that second year of Covid, so it ballsed up everything. Everyone sat in class with masks on, masks on while out cutting, no exams due to people being a large hall together and I got super lucky when i went home for the weekend and got a phone call saying my floor in the dorms was in lockdown because someone got Covid (and they all ended up getting it). I blame it on the others, it was like a swingers den in there.

That body is the second one i've seen floating. Saw one in the Thames long ago. A police friend says it happens more than people know. People die and fall in rivers, get drunk and fall off bridges or rarely jump in rivers intending to end things. Stupid way personally as someone who almost drowned some years back and can you tell you it is scary as shit. Also not surprising people can drown in it. If you can take a narrowboat up it, it's definitely deep enough to drown in.

 

[S.O.H™]

Hi, its Grandad SOH here! Just read the posts above,

 

[Turboshrimp]

Ewwww....
I think air pollution is a thing and some view cannabis smells as such, I feel the same way in some situations, it can be unsociable so I stay downwind to avoid complaints..
When there is no wind however I guess a cloud can form and linger
Have you considered a telescopic chimney?

 

[Hazy-Haze]

He has a carbon filtration system. If that isn't getting it, then an extended chimney is irrelevant.

He should go to edibles. No smell if you go down that route. I can understand the smell angle. My wardrobe, where I store mine, does have a nice terpy smell to it.