First new boat post

when we sold the house finally after 2 years we told everyone we were going to buy a new boat and fit it out. everyone wondered why we would want to do this when we have a perfectly nice boat already that we had done work on. well heres the thinking

First off we didnt really know you could buy one to do out when we bought this one and also we would not have known how to fit it out if we had, living on one for 2 years does teach you a massive amount about what needs to go in one. So this boat was a research boat for our proper one.

Also what we thought we wanted in a narrowboat is not now what we think we need, like corridors and a seperate bathroom so we would have to do a lot of work to this one to change it and that would cost be messy.

if we were going to spend all that money refitting this one then we might as well get a new one that is 15 year younger with a new engine and start from scratch and then it would be our boat from the start and we would know were everything is eg the wires !!!

Also it would be a lot of fun !!

So we went and placed a order for a lined shell which will hopefully be here in 6 weeks or so.
then the real fun begins.

in this waiting time we have been very busy spending money trying to get stuff cheap. so far we have got

kitchen doors 75% off
one corner unit 50% off
shower tray 10 pounds
shower enclosure £99 bargin should be 500
and webasto heating £900

god love ebay, we were thinking changing the name to that and seeing if we could get some ad money :)

also ordered lots of other bits trade so at the moment we are currently under budget i think.

been spending most of the time reading up on everything on the forums and asking silly questions about stuff.
we are really hoping to get this right as we dont plan to move off this boat for many year and definatly not to a house.