Dear Aspiring Narrowboat Owner,

My name is Paul Smith, and I live on a narrowboat.

I wake up every morning to the calls of coots, moorhens, mallards and swans. Sometimes the swans swim right up and tap on my windows or poke their heads through my side hatch for a bit of my morning toast.

When I look out, I see swans gliding effortlessly on top of the water, and slight ripples from fish snatching insects right from the surface. The gentle swish of the waves slapping against the hull of the boat and the cool wind sweeping along the canal are now familiar companions.

I spend my days exploring two thousand miles of connected canals and rivers on England and Wales connected waterways.

No rush hour. No early morning commute. No smoke and smog and misery. Just me, my boat, and nature.

I often end my evenings on the deck of my floating home or sitting on a grassy canal bank, enjoying a glass of Merlot while watching the sun fall below the horizon. The water glitters a golden red where the sun strikes it, and against the backdrop of graceful trees and fluttering wildlife…

Well, let’s just say I can’t imagine living any other way.

And believe me, I looked! Libraries, boating associations, and countless websites…

But all the information I did manage to find was disjointed, broken, and conflicting. Never mind finding it in one place… it was like trying to put together a puzzle that just didn’t fit!

So if you’re considering a life afloat, then you need to read what I’m about to say next. I say that because just by reading what I’m about to tell you, you’ll avoid the number one mistake that almost ALL narrowboat owners make when they’re first starting out.

In fact, I can’t even tell you how many of my fellow live-aboard boaters groan:

But before I show you what that is, let me tell a little story of what happens when you don’t avoid this mistake… I had thought, like many people, that living on a boat would be cheaper than living on land. It can be… but only if you know what you’re doing. In those first few months, I had already run out of coal, gas, and electricity more than once. That’s what happens when you don’t know how long things last, or how much things should cost. But the worst had to be the winter of 2010/2011.

Six months earlier, I had moved what meagre possessions I had on to the 6’10” wide cabin of my neglected narrowboat. I had no idea how cold it could get on a steel-hulled narrowboat floating on icy water.

That winter was the coldest winter in recorded history. Some nights the temperature dropped to minus eighteen degrees…

…Did I mention that my heating system was partially broken during this time and that there were so many holes in my roof that I used buckets to collect water inside the boat every time there was more than a gentle shower?

I would often wake up with the INSIDE of the engine room coated in a solid quarter inch of ice. The temperature in my bedroom was minus four one morning.

But the perhaps the most surprising part of this all was the fact that, as unbelievable as it sounds…

Yes, even though:

I was one of the lucky ones.

I had been lucky because:

I’ve lost count of the number of new boat owners I've met who buy a cheap boat that they can’t afford to repair or refurbish. Who don’t understand the license and mooring fees. Who don’t understand the regulations that govern the waterways.

Which brings me to the number one mistake new boat owners make when thinking of living on the water:

They go into it blind.

They don’t know:

That means that many new owners get the wrong kinds of boats, improperly plan their budget, or hate the lifestyle once they find out what it’s really like.

After a few years, I eventually learned all you need to know about running and living on a narrowboat… the hard way. And I’ve made just about every mistake you can make along the way.

For example:

Sometimes I’m surprised I survived it at all - I definitely wouldn’t have imagined the life I’m living today! But I did get through it. And I learned.

Not only that, but through it all I kept records of every single expense… and I’m going to share it all with you.

In 2010 I started living on a narrowboat without knowing a single thing about the lifestyle...  but there is no reason you should have to.

Today, the internet is still woefully lacking in good information about how to live on a narrowboat and what to expect.

There are a few good sites (besides mine) that give good general information on narrowboats and what you need…

But they don’t tell you the details… and you’ll find that the details are what matter most.

That’s why I decided to put everything you need to know about living on a narrowboat in one place.

I've created a package that contains almost everything you’ll need to know about living on a narrowboat comfortably. It’s filled with all the information I wished I could’ve had when I was starting out.

It’s made up of three parts that are essential for any aspiring narrowboat owner that wants to go into living afloat with their eyes open. I've called it Narrowbudget Gold

Narrowbudget Gold includes:

This comprehensive eBook shows you everything you need to know about the costs of living on a narrowboat, and help you properly plan your budget.

You’ll discover:

This information-packed 185-page eBook features case studies from over 20 real-life narrowboaters with a combined 100+ years of experience on the water. It’s the good, the bad, and the ugly with zero editing, and ideal to figuring out if you’d enjoy a liveaboard lifestyle.

You’ll find out:

It’d take you weeks of research just to find out a small portion of the information contained in this package. How much is your time worth? Even at minimum wage, it’d normally cost you hundreds of pounds of labour to discover just some of this information on your own. More importantly, you won’t it find anywhere else. For the cost of a round of drinks, you’ll save thousands of pounds whether you decide to “take the leap” or not. The complete package will:

All this, yours for just £19.97.

Click the button below to get this package now – you won’t find a deal this good anywhere else.

I’m not asking you to take a leap of faith… I know that you’ll be completely satisfied with the Narrowbudget Gold.

I know because the people who’ve bought it almost always are.

Here are what some of the many, many happy buyers have to say about my products:

Simply click the button below, enter your payment information, and you’ll get my two eBooks, “The REAL Cost Of Life Afloat,” “21 Liveaboard Case Studies,” as well as instant access to my powerful software “Narrowbudget Gold.”

If you’re a Kindle user, both eBooks come with a .mobi version you can load onto your device for easy

reading.

This information cost me over 3 years and thousands of pounds to put together… and you can get it all for the cost of a pint or two.

I spend my days in surroundings that many would envy. Graceful trees and reeds spring from the waters around me, filled with vibrant wildlife, and I’m only a few minutes away from some of the most stunning natural sights in the country. I live a life I could only have dreamed about a few short years ago.

And so can you. Imagine...

It doesn’t just have to be a dream.

You just need to take that first step.

When you order Narrowbudget Gold, you’ll get:

WAIT. There's More!

For years I've sent an information packed newsletter to over 5,000 subscribers. Almost daily I get emails telling me how useful the newsletters are to both new and existing boat owners. I'm delighted to receive those emails because each newsletter is a labour of love. Each issue takes me between five and ten hours to write and draws from my own experience of living on board and the extensive knowledge of the fitters and engineers I've worked with since 2010.

I've compiled thirty eight newsletters from a full year into a unique 209 page guide. The guide is available to you exclusively on this page as a bonus.

I'll be quite frank with you, I don't really want to give this guide away, but a marketing "guru" has told me that you're more likely to invest in this package if I give you something for free. Maybe he's right but, much as I want you know as much as possible before you buy a boat, I'm not keen on giving away something which has taken me hundreds of hours to write and days and days to compile into a guide.

We reached a compromise. The guide is yours, completely free of charge, as a thank you for investing in my pakage. After that - I don't know when - I'll offer the guide for sale elsewhere on the site.

The guide gives you an insight into life afloat throughout the year. The newsletter contents are always appropriate for the time of year when they're sent out so you'll get a feel for the highs and lows of narrowboat life as the year progresses from the practicalities of spending days and nights on board a steel boat frozen solid in the ice to the joy of a summer's eve spent relaxing, beer in hand, in a comfy chair on the canal bank.

There's a huge amount of information in the guide.

Two hundred and nine pages of essential narrowboat information is yours for free when you order your Narrowbudget Gold package.

All this, for just £19.97.

I encourage you to click the button below and get your no-risk order today – I promise you will look back

upon it as one of the best choices you’ve ever made.

Sincerely,

Paul Smith

Owner of the Narrowboat “James No 194”

P.S. If you have any doubt whatsoever about the usefulness of what you’ll get, I encourage you to check out the forums on my website, or to e-mail me directly, I’ll be happy to answer any questions you have.