Hello all, I'm completely new to this group and to boating in general.
Yesterday my wife and I visited the boat show at Excel in London and we
bought a Zodiac 260S inflatable together with a 4hp outboard. It's not
actually getting delivered until later this month. We intend to use it as
an added recreational facility when we are away with our caravan. It will
mostly be used on inland waterways plus (if we can pluck up the courage) on
the sea, but 'very' close to shore and around harbours etc.
I have some questions which, hopefully, someone can help with.
Do we need permission to launch the boat or can we just go ahead?
Are there launch fees involved?
What do we do about security? I'm imagining a scenario where we've motored
along, come to a nice stopping place - a village or such, and want to get
out and look around. How do we stop someone nicking the boat?
Apologies for such dumb questions - but there'll likely be more to follow.
Thanks in advance.

Sorry all, the 3 replies from Granny were mine - I forgot to change id.