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Welcome to the Sanity Website! |
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Welcome to the Napier family website, including information about our liveaboard narrowboat, Sanity. Sanity was fitted out by Iain and Luisa Bryceland of Braidbar Narrowboats during the winter of 2003/04. and now she's for sale! We've been building Sanity Again during the winter, and when we move on board, sometime in March, Sanity will be going to a new home. She's with brokers ABNB and her details should be on their website in the next few days. We're asking £63,000 for her. Meantime, the Building Sanity Again blog will chart the build of our new boat. There is a plan of Sanity here, and some techie stuff here. There's also a photo album of her fit out . This site also contains the information about our cruising plans for Sanity. There is a record of our adventures so far here. One day, we'll finish the 2006 cruising log! The one for 2007 is part of the picture album for that year. Meanwhile, there are some pictures from the Napier Family Calendar for 2007, 2008 and 2009. For up to date info about us, please visit the blog. Living in Sanity is a day by day account of our travels and travails, and is intended to give those considering changing to the continuous cruising lifestyle a sense of what it's like. Sheila spends some of her time making cabin crochet for Sanity, and did the crochet for the award winning Braidbar. She can be persuaded to do it for other boats, and there are some samples of her work here. Enquiries should be emailed to sheila'at'nbsanity.me.uk Rather than provide a page of links to loads of other canal sites, I can't recommend too strongly George's Canal Website, that contains masses of information and links. An issue of concern in 2008 has been the changes to the regulations about duty to be paid on red diesel. When buying red diesel, you now need to make a declaration as to how much is to be used for propulsion, and pay extra duty on that part of the purchase. Most but not all boatyards are following the correct procedure, and Sue of No Problem has a web page here to show which ones are known to be complying. Sheila has produced an Excel spreadsheet that lets you calculate what proportion of a tank of diesel has been used for propulsion, and you can download it here. We don't want to charge for this, but if you do find it useful, please make a donation to the Waterway Recovery Group; instructions for how to do that are included on the spreadsheet.
People who own or are thinking of buying a Braidbar boat may like to join the Braidbar Owner's Group email list. To join, visit the Yahoo website for it, or else send an email to braidbar-owners-subscribe 'at' yahoogroups.com. There's more detailed info about the Group here. In addition, Braidbar owners can now buy clothing personalised with the Braidbar logo and their boat name. Info about this here. If you have any comments about the website, please email the webmaster'at'nbsanity.me.uk. Throughout this site, I avoid giving email addresses in clear, to frustrate the dreaded spambots. In order to use the email address, just replace the 'at' bit with the @ symbol. |