Narrowboats again

The more I read about the canals and narrowboating the more I realize that one of the main limiting factors is the mooring. I know there is continuous cruising whereby you don’t necessarily need a mooring because you are always travelling. Even so there has to be times when you need to leave the boat for some extended period of time. My own idea of course is to spend the winters in Spain so I would at least need a mooring for that time. It seems that winter moorings can be difficult to come by, I have yet to fully research this but from reading some of the mailing lists there are difficulties in finding a reasonable one. It may be that I need to buy a canal side piece of land with mooring rights but having spent a day looking online for such a thing, it is apparent that if these ever do come up for sale, they are quickly snapped up because I couldn’t find any. I did see a canal side cottage in Crooke on the Leeds and Liverpool with a 70 foot mooring at 179,000 pounds but this is just too much at this moment in time, even if I rented out the cottage. More research needed!