Living onboard Wallingford to Oxford areas?

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A friend of mine is looking to buy a NB as a home. And wants to live anywhere around Wallingford, Abingdon, Oxford area but legally, preferably in a marina or on a residential mooring.
Is that a realistic possibility up that end of the Thames?
And any recommendations?

Thanks.
 
No.
We don't need any more desperate boat hippies.
Theres a big Marina at Abingdon but its a long hike to town and living on a boat
in winter is going to be pretty cold.
I don't know Marina rules but sooner or later someone is going to complain
Some marinas have no full time living rules.
Why don't you think theres not 1000s incomers already living in boat villages?
That's why.
 
Most marina contracts have a 'no living aboard' clause. They also have a clause that reserves the right not to enforce all or any of their own rules. The EA does the same thing with river regulation.
 
Nice troll, Harry.

There are plenty of professionals like my mate in Marinas, my experience of marinas is they are heavily occupied by full time residents, one Thames marina is over 20% liveaboards by my reckoning.
But I don't Inow how it works up the othe end or where the marinas are, which is why I asked. If he was the sort of bloke who'd tie up between the trees until the council took him to court, I wouldn't be helping him look for a boat!
 
Livaboards aren’t really allowed at Abingdon marina, there are a few at Osney on both sides of the mill stream. Bossams might be worth a go, but there’s no facilities there.

There are a few moorings below shillingford bridge that were cleared, but seem to be accepting livaboards again
 
Heres an interesting link to a Lady living aboard a Bayliner 1818 (1978 36')In Los Angeles and various tours of her boat
in Los Angeles.She calls it a yacht.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQvI8JJszi4
She shows you the various tiny spaces.
Abingdon Marina is a big Marina that faces eyeball to eyeball with waterside apartments
which have panorama balconies looking directly onto the marina.
Not much privacy one would imagine.
However think one of them might host a rather dishy chick with thick legs!
Just saying.
No one can enter the Marina unless thorugh a controlled gate and they must own a vessel in there.
 
Harry Hogwash said:
Heres an interesting link to a Lady living aboard a Bayliner 1818 (1978 36')In Los Angeles and various tours of her boat
in Los Angeles.She calls it a yacht.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQvI8JJszi4
She shows you the various tiny spaces.
Abingdon Marina is a big Marina that faces eyeball to eyeball with waterside apartments
which have panorama balconies looking directly onto the marina.
Not much privacy one would imagine.
However think one of them might host a rather dishy chick with thick legs!
Just saying.
No one can enter the Marina unless thorugh a controlled gate and they must own a vessel in there.
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But, Harry, as usual, your information is only partial.

Our window cleaner of many years kept a boat in Abingdon Marina untill recently-bad health putting a stop to play.

He had one of the private moorings that can come with an apartment, very convenient and about 1/3rd cheaper. Rented direct from the apartment owner.

Easy to get into the marina from the River-turn right going downstream, turn left going upstream.

No security at all...............................
 
Try Oxford areas they are more live on boatey mc boat face types.
The backwaters around Port Meadow seem particularly unmonitored though a bit sinister at night.
When you propose slumming it on the sly in a boat you inevitably rub shoulders with similiar outlaws
Polish Fisherman,Vagrants and numerous other rent avoiders.
I should think security is rather dicey and you may experience a number of 'incidents'over time.
Its sad because if your a decent chap Ive no objection to your living on a boat.
Whos bothered?
But I can see how hard it is when the law and things are against it.
The problem is society has changed.
Theres no longer the laissez faire wild and free attitude much nowadays.
The students have become more heard hearted.
Crikey you even get funny looks going round on a bike nowadays
like your some kind of wierdo.
I knew a kind pub landlady at Oranges and Lemons who used to let
drunks sleep it off in a straw covered floor on a shed at the back.
People were kinder in those days
 
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Harry Hogwash said:
Try Oxford areas they are more live on boatey mc boat face types.
The backwaters around Port Meadow seem particularly unmonitored though a bit sinister at night.
When you propose slumming it on the sly in a boat you inevitably rub shoulders with similiar outlaws
Polish Fisherman,Vagrants and numerous other rent avoiders.
I should think security is rather dicey and you may experience a number of 'incidents'over time.
Its sad because if your a decent chap Ive no objection to your living on a boat.
Whos bothered?
But I can see how hard it is when the law and things are against it.
The problem is society has changed.
Theres no longer the laissez faire wild and free attitude much nowadays.
The students have become more heard hearted.
Crikey you even get funny looks going round on a bike nowadays
like your some kind of wierdo.
I knew a kind pub landlady at Oranges and Lemons who used to let
drunks sleep it off in a straw covered floor on a shed at the back.
People were kinder in those days
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If you mean the Oranges and Lemons in St Clements, that would be Marion leaves, leaf leaves ex missus and good friend of that piss artist of the first water, Dan McNab.

Marion and Leaf used to run the Boot at Stonesfield. Regular Saturday night live music, the programme chalked on a beam as you walked in.

One Saturday night no band. Complaints were loud.

Leaf made an announcement-"it's chalked on the beam"-he said.

Those who went to look saw:-

Sat. 12th Sunfly

Sat. 17th Far Call........................................
 
rotrax said:
If you mean the Oranges and Lemons in St Clements, that would be Marion leaves, leaf leaves ex missus and good friend of that piss artist of the first water, Dan McNab.

Marion and Leaf used to run the Boot at Stonesfield. Regular Saturday night live music, the programme chalked on a beam as you walked in.

One Saturday night no band. Complaints were loud.

Leaf made an announcement-"it's chalked on the beam"-he said.

Those who went to look saw:-

Sat. 12th Sunfly

Sat. 17th Far Call........................................
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Um Thanks for sharing.
Are we sure we have the right peep?
This was circa 1979-80 when I was living in Cowley Road.
Think there was just a jukebox back then at least the night I was abducted by a White Witch visiting from Harrow
and taken to a Gingerbread Cottage like Hansel and Gretel a 20 minute drunken stagger up some road near the parks.
After 2 Bottles of Champagne.
She was reading the Book of Relevation and doing Scree in a Mirror,
Possibly a case of Flirty Fishing?
Who knows as there were a lot of 'adoptings 'back then like the time I ended up detained at
a Moonie House in Headington,which had stains on the walls and a broken front door.
I would love to meet the witch again though she must be about 60 now.
Truly magical the Cottage has not been seen since and has vanished despite all attempts to find it.
I was given a magic painted pebble as a present.,..............
so I know it was real.
 
Harry Hogwash said:
Um Thanks for sharing.
Are we sure we have the right peep?
This was circa 1979-80 when I was living in Cowley Road.
Think there was just a jukebox back then at least the night I was abducted by a White Witch visiting from Harrow
and taken to a Gingerbread Cottage like Hansel and Gretel a 20 minute drunken stagger up some road near the parks.
After 2 Bottles of Champagne.
She was reading the Book of Relevation and doing Scree in a Mirror,
Possibly a case of Flirty Fishing?
Who knows as there were a lot of 'adoptings 'back then like the time I ended up detained at
a Moonie House in Headington,which had stains on the walls and a broken front door.
I would love to meet the witch again though she must be about 60 now.
Truly magical the Cottage has not been seen since and has vanished despite all attempts to find it.
I was given a magic painted pebble as a present.,..............
so I know it was real.
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Thats the last knockings of when she had the pub.

I used to turn out for the Oxford Marathons 2nd 1V. They ran 5 teams from that little Jewish pub opposite the Port Mahon. You know, the Kosher Horses. Ken and Ruby were mine hosts.

Things were certainly different then....................................
 
One thing I remember for certain despite the champagne she was definetley Welsh.
The Woman behind the bar possibly The Landlady.
Sound right?
 
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