One sought-after mooring spot in London is the Wenlock Basin, off the Regent's Canal near the Angel, Islington, and Emma Fildes of boutique estate agency Fyfe Mcdade has sold a number of narrowboats in this private basin.
I spied a mooring spot, tied up, jumped ashore, and immediately stumbled upon a matching pair of bronze door handles, scaled in rust, sitting in a pile of bricks, bottles, seaweed.
"You don't go fast or far in a canoe, but you do enjoy the ride," Nick says, before we spot another heron, soaking up some rays on an old mooring post.
Spielberg uses these mechanical stunners for his special brand of eccentric physical movement; in "Raiders," when the flying-wing airplane, grounded and moored to the spot, kept circling, Indy, fighting some lout, ducked every time the whirling propellers swung around.
Since March 2007, the ship, now moored in a spot about a 10-minute boat ride from Midtown, has become home for a small group of secretive and resourceful people looking for an inexpensive, unorthodox place to stay.
But like most people, I gawk at the giant yachts, moored in the prime spots on the harbor and wonder who owns them.
The beloved concert spot Bargemusic, moored near the Brooklyn Bridge in Dumbo, floats serenely, with a cozy wood-lined interior and a temperamental toilet.
The zone has also allocated an expanse of coast for recreation: an old Soviet aircraft carrier is moored in one desolate spot as the centrepiece of what is intended to become a military theme park.
We're moored in a rare spot where there is normally phone signal.
The environmental activist, who became famous when Julia Roberts starred in a film about her life, was spotted struggling to moor her boat in the harbour near Boulder City harbour.
