In total we've spent $167,000 (£120,000) buying and renovating the boat, but we now have a home in London and we are moored by apartments that can sell for as much as $9.7million (£7million).
There are all sorts of skills that I would never have learned if I wasn't making a boat my home. I feel so much more capable and strong as a person. That is such a precious gift that I don't think I would have had if we had just bought a traditional house and re-decorated it. Being more involved has been amazing, but, of course, there are challenges.
We dry dock the boat every two years and that's when you find all the rot. We step back, feel a little blue and say that we're going to have to sell the boat because we can't afford to keep it and it's too much work. Then we wake up the next day, look at the view and think: isn't it lovely. After the first four years of owning the boat, we moved to Kent and stayed there for four years, but I'm a London person. Then it happened that a mooring came up in London two years ago. It's the area I'd always wanted to take the barge to. It was our dream to come back here so it's been really amazing. It's an amazing community here and a really nice place to be.
At this stage, I can't imagine ever living in a house again. For all it's trials, I love the boat so much. Rachael Smith lives and works from S.B. Tollesbury, a restored Thames sailing barge moored in London. She founded
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