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43 minutes ago, floydraser said:
I too used to drive artics. I've had a touring caravan for a long time, kept in secure storage. We have it for reasonably cheap, familiar accomodation rather than being caravan enthusiasts; we only go to larger sites with decent facilities, and only in the summer.
We don't wave to other caravanners on the road as all producers of camping tv shows would have us believe!
Towing a 'van needs special attention to weight distribution to be safe but after the first few trips it becomes routine, like mooring a boat I guess. Hiring first is a great idea.
My advice to new campers is avoid the pennons; anyone with those triangular symbols of the hardcore camping enthusiast are likely to be round your unit like moths!
The Bilbos Nexa is VW T6 conversion and would happily sit on our drive. It goes in most normal car parks and contains a clean toilet and stove so no need to stop at services, and tea made with boiling water at any time! We would also have an inflatable tent or awning (haven't decided yet) for longer stays.
To this end we'll probably be moving the boat on and the Volvo.
The Bilbos Nexa looks nice but it's not for us. You get far more accommodation on a coach built bodied motorhome and far better insulation for winter trips.
Much bigger beer fridge and proper cooking facilities as well in what we want. We have made sure we have got the important bits right
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35 minutes ago, Mouldy said:
I’ve thought about either a motorhome or caravan in the past. A motorhome saves the pain of dragging a caravan about and as an ex LGV 1 driver, why would I want to tow anything about now? That said, at least with a touring caravan, you can put it on a site, level it, put the awning up and leave it whilst you mooch around in your car. The height and size of a motorhome make accessing some places difficult due to the height and length, which is why you see so many with a rack on the back carrying mopeds or cycles, I guess.
Don’t get me wrong, each to their own, but both options have their compromises and I’m not sure which are easier to live with. That said, we’re thinking of hiring a motorhome for a couple of weeks next year. We’d intended to have an extended holiday to celebrate my 66th birthday, visiting Barcelona, crossing the South of France, across Italy to visit Venice and return through Austria and Switzerland, staying at Eurocamp accommodation on the way. The pandemic and Brexit have made us rethink our plan, so instead, we may spend a couple of weeks in Scotland, more specifically doing the North Coast 500. We’ll re-evaluate the situation when the virus is under control and the new normal is established before making too many plans.In the meantime, we’re looking forward to returning to our boat and enjoying the Broads again. It’s been too long!!
We really don't want the hassle of a caravan. The towing and having to have a second vehicle capable of towing a decent caravan makes it a no for us. We won't have a second car with the motorhome, the motorhome will be the spare vehicle for the very odd time we need one. And with a caravan we would have to pay for storage elsewhere rather than it being sat on the drive.
We don't plan to be properly sited with the motorhome a lot of the time and will be moving around daily or every other day so being able to set up camp and leave it doesn't really matter to us.
We are also used to not getting close to shops with the boat and don't mind a decent walk to get to shops or other facilities.
We also plan to travel Europe with the motorhome and stop on Aires and the like, most of which are motorhomes only. Our travel in the UK will make good use of Britstops and Pub Stops and most of those don't allow caravans either.
As you say it all depends how you plan to use what you have and for us it is a no brainer to get a motorhome rather then a caravan.
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1 hour ago, ChrisB said:
It seems to me that for the price of a new RV, I can purchase a very comfortable and powerful touring car and have wads of cash left for accommodation. Also I don't have to accommodated something the size of an oil rig in the drive.
Someone told me that some of the new build housing developments have restrictive covenants on the time a RV or caravan can be parked.
The motorhome we are getting is only 6m long so it isn't huge by any means. No bigger than a panel van, in fact some LWB panel vans are longer than the motorhome we want.
Our covenants on our estate say you can't park a commercial vehicle, caravan or boat on the drive. A motorhome is non of those things. Mind you there are a lot of people that have taken zero notice of the commercial vehicle, caravan or boat restrictions as well.
Luckily with the layout of the houses and driveways where we are no one will have a view of the motorhome from their main windows. We have no windows facing the drive, our direct neighbours across the drive only have a WC and stair window facing the drive and the houses on the opposite side of the road are a mirror image of our houses so again no windows to face the drive.
We have broached the subject with all of the neighbours, especially the ones who have a drive side by side with ours and they are all fine with the idea of it being parked there. If the worst comes to the worst there is a storage yard for caravans and motorhomes literally a 2 minute drive from our house, but we really don't think it will come to that.
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Well the motorhome will certainly be more fuel efficient than the boat that is for sure 🤣🤣🤣
Got around 7mpg as an average from the boat. The motorhome should be closer to 30mpg as an average 😀
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24 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said:
There is nothing wrong with the logic of your post ES2, but I am left wondering if you give sufficient weight to human nature. If I were a publican, and could have several ignorant customers in place of one intelligent one, I know my choice!
The several ignorant ones who will drink far more and spend far more money than the one intelligent one who is likely to spend all afternoon "savouring" the one pint?
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I do believe it would be unfair to those of us who are way down the vaccination list to suddenly introduce the need to have had the vaccine to go in pubs. It could well be July time before I have my first jab. That would be over three months of not being able to go to a pub purely based on my age and good health, and not being under aged for once either
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It will work the other way as well of course and folks who have never been to the Broads before this/last year may well find that they really enjoy it and book again for next year and continue to do so in following years.
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We know what we want, there just are very few coming up for sale at the moment.
We want one of these:
https://www.marquisleisure.co.uk/motorhomes/stock-item/benimar-mileo-202
Our preference would be not to buy new but we do want one 2017 or newer as that is when they upped the standard spec a lot. It is just a case of waiting for one to pop up for sale, although we have said we will take a view later in the year on whether we will end up buying a new one if nothing suitable is coming up for sale.
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8 minutes ago, Turnoar said:
Motorhomes do seem to be in short supply like caravans. Have you thought about a conversion project? Old securicor van perhaps, not much call for cash at the moment so may be going for a song. Maybe some spare buses around soon too... seriously though there’s plenty of companies converting vans these days.
No. We want a proper coach built motorhome not a conversion!!
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14 minutes ago, Smoggy said:
You'll be able to buy it back next year for half the price....
If all goes well.
We have had our fill of boating now
Trying to buy a motorhome at the minute but that isn't proving to be an easy task
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On 17/03/2021 at 14:52, traceyp said:
Hi, did the boat complete the sale at all? If not, then we would be very interested.
Yes the boat has sold.
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15 hours ago, Matt said:
For the avoidance of any doubt can you please confirm what is "official government" guidelines if it is not the Health Protection Regulations that were laid before parliament yesterday?
12th April
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5 minutes ago, traceyp said:
Thank you all, yes our budget isnt the largest, we only started boating last year and bought our first little Fairline, but we spend so much time on the marina that we feel we can justify upgrading a little more, the Sealines are seeming to fetch slightly more than out budget but thought I would ask, sometimes you can get lucky :-)
Thank you for all of your advice
18 Months ago your budget would have been fine and would have got you a cheap S23!
Every man and their dog is after a boat at the moment and that has pushed prices up. Not just boats, motorhomes and camper vans are the same.
If you can you might be better of waiting 12 months until some of these boats bought for staycations start to come back for sale again as foreign travel comes back.
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Don't just look on the Broads. 25ft boats can be easily and cheaply transported by road by the likes of Tony Anderson (aka Tony Tugboat).
He moved our boat around several times and was never expensive.
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You won't be getting a Sealine S23 or S25 in your budget. They have increased in price this last couple of years and are fetching daft money now. We have just sold ours cheap and that was £28k.
You might get a petrol S24 in your price range but I suspect the diesel ones will be out of your range as well.
You are looking for the same sort of boat as a lot of other people at the moment I'm afraid. If you do find something you will have to get in there quick!!
I have just had a quick flick through the usual brokers sites we watch and there is nothing in your price range that isn't already under offer.
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RIP Sabine.
I always enjoyed watching here drive.
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11 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:
Imagine the congestion & chaos if on a Bank Holiday they did all get underway, arghhhh, where would they all moor?
You will find out on 12th April
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5 hours ago, andyg said:
I'm with you on that, think them stripes would give me a headache. We hired viscount from richardson's a couple years after that had a total refit and for me they done a cracking job on that. But fair play to ferry for investing. I noticed all the plastic sheeting on her in one of the pictures, I wonder if she was sprayed instead of being hand painted.
We hired Viscount from Richardsons in 2017 and agree they have done a cracking job in refitting and modernising it. It was a lovely comfortable boat that handled really well. The refit still looked good after a few years on hire.
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We used to leave our 12v TV onboard all the time. It was never the cold weather that killed those off it was forgetting you had not put it safe and jumping over someone's wake that killed those off.
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Nothing to do with fuel duty. The current rise in fuel costs as the above post says is the rise in the price of oil.
This time next year however you can blame the rise in fuel duty for the rise in cost of fuel
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That looks like it could be a nice little set up. Will need a bit of investment to get it up to scratch and ready for letting but it does look like it has the potential to be a nice little earner that one. I like it.
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19 minutes ago, OldBerkshireBoy said:
Whatever peoples reasons for liking or disliking places to eat or drink it is good to have choices.
100% agree with this.
And the only way to keep that choice is to use them.
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It's funny how people view things differently. We went to the Fur and Feathers last time we visited and can't remember it being overly expensive. We both had a steak and a few pints.
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I'm not so sure about that
2003 Sealine S23 For Sale
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And I have my opinion as well which is that a coach built motorhome is far more suitable for us then a van derived conversion or a caravan.
We want to tour in luxury and not feel cooped up or cramped when the weather dictates we have to stay inside. We want a nice spacious lounge area for bad weather days which a van conversion just doesn't offer due to the limited internal space.
We don't plan to use the motorhome to be sited in one place. The intention is to tour with it and stay in each place for a day, two at most. Much like we used the boat, it was a very rare occasion that we ever stayed anywhere more than 24 hours with that as well.