Special Bonus NotAVlog: real-time cruising on the River Avon, from Tewkesbury to Comberton Quay
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This is a special bonus video and it's a biggie - three hours of "real time" cruising from my trip last year, here on the River Avon going up from where it joins the Severn at Tewkesbury, to my overnight mooring at Comberton Quay.
Any wobbles in the steering are probably me filming something at the back and thereby being distracted.
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Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the TH-cam music library
As much as i love seeing your face and hearing your voice say smart, funny, and introspective things, i do really love these longer, real time, excursions! Not more than the normal/great videos, but differently. like you like a cat differently than a dog, or pizza differently than say, a sandwich! Thank you for these wonderful videos!
Great stuff. Three of these (so far). That's me set up for for a few hours. And thanks, David, for the sounds of the boat and the waterway rather than the nearly always irritating, often downright abominable 'music' that so many TH-camrs seem to feel 'enhances' their videos. If only more people had your class.
thank you so much for giving us this very relaxing float. i have been binge watching your vlogs and i love you sense of humour.
Ahhh Perfect. Totally relaxing just like being on the cut myself and I agree with Jim Baxter's previous comment about "no abominable music" Just the musical sound of "cruising the cut". Thank you very much.
The engine and the scenery - a soothing combination.
david ilove the video and i agree i hate the music that some people put in but i totally miss your sometimes frivolous and humourous comments you sneak in it makes the video fun keep up the excellent work
So beautiful, with the bird and sheep sounds coming and going. I've added this to my "watch continuously" playlist. Thank you so much!
Zen and the art of cruising the cut. Thank you for this mostly tranquil piece of countryside history. It reminded me of my childhood years of the 50’s and 60’s when me and a mate waited all day to record a passing car number. Diolch eto, Tony
These NotAVlogs are great, especially during the winter months. I have recently been going through your videos from the start to find out more about boating but I've actually started using these NotAVlogs as sleeping aids. It all seems so relaxing. Just want to say thank you for making this channel.
Lovely. You have discovered the perfect way for lots of folks to get much needed sleep. The motor is the perfect ambient sound and the scenery lovely! Thank you so very much!
What a relaxing video just nice ta watch...thanks..
thank you for another fine example of your peaceful and serene british countryside .
I thought what a miserable day doctors office at !0 and all that's on their television are those calming nature videos. But to my amazement the receptionist is a cruising the cut fan and this was on. When I commented on the waiting room programming she told me it was a new posting , every one seemed to like it no complaints at all. cool
Are you kidding me? Really?! Where is this?!
Ever since experiencing my first SlowTV (the Norway Bergen Train trip that started the whole SlowTV genre), I've often thought that drinking establishments with multiple TVs (sports bars) should have at least one TV tuned to a SlowTV channel! In fact, it was searching out SlowTV on TH-cam that brought me to Cruising the Cut!
I’ve just watched your most recent not a vlog, I really am getting hooked. I think I need to get out more.
You keep making them. I’ll keep watching. Well done
Oh dreams & memories, sunshine cruising on the river, a glass 🍷 of course and sitting back while someone else does the hard work What's not to love! Thank you for all of this Hope you might make yourself an extra special cheese sandwich as a reward, and maybe a G&T 🍸 Many, many thanks for this beautiful journey
Absolutely love this, thank you.
Now I truly understand the appeal of the narrow boat! From this perspective I can appreciate the pace and lifestyle. In the usa we run up and down the coast with the seasons up the rivers as far as we can then back down again. Never at this pace which explains why we miss so much!
Fully embracing the Slow Television genre !
BTW, that was a compliment !!
It's easy to dismiss at first but becomes utterly compelling.
A German TV station shows a train travelling through amazing countryside for hours when the channel stops its usual broadcasting.
Having had a quick look, it may be from a Norwegian channel.
Thank you, yes I took it as a compliment! Cheers
Oooh Yes! This is just what I need, gone down with the lurgy so going to go to bed when I get home and this will be like one of those 'Relaxation Mood CD's' for me to drift off to sleep!! Thank you and perfect timing!
Paul, I couldn't agree with you any more. If you want something to watch and just chill this video nails it. Thanks, I've been hoping for a few of these since starting viewing. Sweet
Thanks so much for the cruise. This is very soothing to look at with dreams in my soul. I love the not a vlogs.
BTW, I agree with you on those haughty, horrid swans. Nasty creatures. And they bite.
Just found your channel a couple of days ago and I can't stop watching. You videos are so calming and peaceful and your country is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing these and giving those of us who will probably never be able to visit the UK a different view from the usual big tourist destinations and attractions we see on the travel type channels. Cheers!!!
Really pleased you enjoy them, thank you
I agree. I'm on my second trip through the playlist. They are just so darn entertaining, educational, and a great way to unwind after a busy day.
Yes you are right Greg. thumbs-up to you.
Two surprises: 1) only 2 on coming boats in 3 hours time; and 2 ) very surprised to see so many sailboats so far inland on the Avon. Overall I was mesmerized for the entire trip. 👍👍👍👍👍
Beautifully hypnotic. So relaxing and tranquil...
Lovely. It's so strangely relaxing to just sit on the pointy end of your boat an see what the canal will bring. Thanks!
Excellent!
I found the secret NotAVlog! Looks like you had some wonderful weather for river cruising David! I hope my fiancee and I are lucky enough to get weather like this on our Llangollen narrowboat honeymoon in June this year!
I so enjoy your vlogs! However, this is my favourite of them all. I feel like I am there and love the experience. So soothing and relaxing!
This fun stuff. Thanks for the real-time lift!
Your NotAVolgs are far better than a boring audiobook and/or ambient music to help me study. I have even consumed my dinner listening to your engine. Too bad Burma-Shave has no signs along the canal to add humor. I wonder if they ever did, say, in the 50's and 60's? Thanks for all the videos. RThey add some real class to TH-cam.
I have no idea who "Burma Shave" might be; does not sound like something we'd have here. Also, in the 50s & 60s the canals were still largely derelict and being restored rather than the state you find them in today.
CruisingTheCut Burma Shave is American men’s shaving soap that had placed small signs along the highway with cute sayings to help men remember to but their shaving soap! Cute little signs on America’s highways! Enjoying you Vlog from Houston Texas.
Incredible! It made you actually feel like you were making the trip with you.
There really are no words...
THNX!!!😊
Your cruise along the Warwickshire Avon is one of my all time favourites, in your own words it was absolutely gorgeous. I’ve always wondered how you composed your videos as I can remember a lot of the forward view spliced in with face to camera shots then views to port and starboard but I guess the magic is in the editing - nice to see you canal side again
What a lovely video showing my dream river Avon section at around 50:00min you go under the M5 motorway and every time we drive over the river there we try and catch a glimpse of ‘our bend in the river’ looking left from the southbound carriageway. Absolute heaven. Thanks so much for posting this video, it made my day!
So glad you enjoyed it!
Ahoi, David, sehr schöne Fahrt. Bitte weiter so!
how does anyone NOT like this. there must be people who just hate everything.
Not sure how I missed this one for two years but I love it. Nice and relaxing. Looks really peaceful.
My 3rd time viewing this in the last month. Always see something new, never boring, thanks so much.
Love the sounds of nature and the engine. So peaceful. Thank you for what you do.
Love these long videos.. almost being a part of the jurney..
We can still come watch your videos David. They will remind us in the months to come while we wish you well on your inner journey.
David, this is our go to relaxation viewing. The long non vlogs go on every night. I sleep in a recliner due to hip and knee problems and you soothe me to sleep.
A delightful cruise! Thank you
Lovely video. We are based at Tewkesbury Marina and went up to Bidford on Avon this July. Watching this reminds me of our holiday. Identical weather as well!! Thank you.
Very nice indeed. Just what the doctor ordered. Best wishes. 🌟🌟🌟👍😊
Tulsa Oklahoma USA excellent videos on the English canals you're doing a great job. Keep it up
Just got a new smart TV, this is perfect! Thanks, David.
Wow. Almost 3 hours of "SLOW". Thanks, I probably needed this.
I can watch with commentary or not, but the commentary is what brings me back.
I just watch your most recent not a vlog video. And I knew I had to go back and watch not a vblog video of the Avalon River. I love your new. Microphone system. I think I'll put one of these on the big screen as the" background music" at my next party. In my opinion It will be calming and a conversation starter at any time. My parties are not boisterous but have a lot of good conversation.
Ps
In the USA a lot of the big truck drivers / lorry drivers have swans as hood ornaments., Since narrow boats are always chasing swans maybe that would be good for your van?
I enjoyed these cruising views, and it being filmed from the front (you don't see the the roof). I agree with Jim Baxter. Thank You.
So relaxing I could watch all day mate. :)
Another gem!
Cheers from Portugal.
love these vids at this time of year it cheers me up on the cold dark days..keep them coming..
My wife and I are doing this trip in a couple of weeks! I hope that it looks like this when we do it! Thanks for the relaxing video!
Might not be quite so sunny, alas :-(
Really appreciate these videos, fantastic relaxing viewing. Most important, no commercials or ads like many other channels. Thanks again :-)
Ha! There *should* be ads at the start and end (depending on TH-cam choosing to put them) but I do not permit them in the middle of the video and also remove the banner ads that would appear over the video if watching on a PC.
@@CruisingTheCut Good for you, David. Much appreciated and enjoyed.
Sat under "house arrest" (not really but in the current situation, feels like it) and this was the most wonderful 3 hours of slow tv ever! I too have seen that part of the river from the M5. Great work David, I am off to search out more.
I have come to find that running the "real-time cruising" videos on the big screen TV whilst working on the computer, quite relaxing. It's my own little "cruising the cut" experience in landlocked south Texas. Many thanks!
I Had to cast this to my 42 in vizio and fall asleep!!! Well done my friend! Great vlog! I wish i was there! But I'm stuck in Honolulu! I'd rather be on the cut! God Bless1 And i'm off for a vodka and tonic!
That horn blast near the start had my 3 cats on high alert. One was searching the place for the cause. I couldn't tell them in my usually forceful manner that it was only the TV, due to a mouthful of bacon sandwich. "-)
Another quality video Sir, thank you. makes our rving ( caravaning , as i think you call it.) seem lacking. all the best Dee Jay.
I think it would be nice and entertaining to see the transitions through the locks and bridges.
Since the camera is on the bow, it simply sees the wood of the lock gate throughout the transition so there's nothing to see hence cutting it out.
@@CruisingTheCut , but then, isn't that part of the "real time" experience? Warts and all?
That was another great video, i love the Avon
Good show old Bean!
Great Video Thank you
Great, wish I had time to watch all of it
My shot of Zen Meditation. 😑Love CrusingTheCut and David's commentary.
So relaxing! Love it.
Just wonderful. 😀
Beautiful canals
Love it when you get out of the town and into the countryside. You probably love it, too?
Yes indeed
We have beautiful giant rivers here in the US that are absolutely breathtaking. But there is something about Old World beauty that i cant put a finger on. There is just some ineffable mystique to it that just speaks so loudly to me.
And the scale is different too. The river Avon is basically world renowned. Anyone with a cursory knowledge of UK geography knows about it. But has anyone ever heard of the Rock river? ...no? Its just some almost nameless tributary of the mississippi you have to live within 30 miles of to have ever heard of it. Anyway, the section i live near is at the very least three times as wide and many many many times faster moving then any part of the Avon shown in this video...
Nr. 11/09/2018.✓ Well, that does it. Sold on the idea...move over! Or, move ahead, now. What a lovely, lovely real-time notaVlog!
For a second I thought the cleat on the front of the boat was a bluebird. Could easily be made one. But then again maybe that would attract cats. Lol
I just recently discovered your channel a few days ago. i been stuck on your vlogs and have subscribed to see future content. i love the English country side and this is the only video that has been able to put me to asleep. i slept for the first time in 3 days watching this. really wish they would accept American refugees
There are a couple of other of these real-time videos (and some more coming very soon too) so hopefully more ways to fall asleep!
Thank you, wish I was doing it. Maybe one day😊
Not gonna lie I had the best afternoon snooze during this video
:-)
"intense boating action"
I made the video my screensaver.... almost hypnotic!!!
Great video!
Thanks again for the 'good mood' content :-D
I would have loved to see the lock bits as well. Maybe some other bonus special?
The trouble is that because these are filmed with the bow camera, all you see in the lock is several minutes of a static lock gate (while I tie the boat and sort the lock gear) then the gate going "down" (ie boat rising) so there's just not much to see!
@@CruisingTheCut
Ok. Makes sense.
Is it an idea to make a separate video about going through a lock and what you have to do?
We, my wife and me, spend one holiday on a canalboat. In the area of Bath. But we did not go through any locks unfortunately. We will rent a canalboat again some time in the future.
Thank you,
Dennis
I have already done a video about how to go through a lock, if you scroll back through my channel you'll find it. Cheers
I was just thinking "What lovely relaxing sound, I'll have that on in the background today." Then David blew the horn.
Haha I think that was the only loud sound in the video!
Dazzling
Seen this river from the M5 many times over the last 45 years. Peaceful in your video but I have seen it when it has covered the meadows at the side to quite a depth. Then it would be truly scary.
In the middle of the night and I can’t sleep. TH-cam keeps flooding the suggested list of videos with “notavlog”. The algorithm works in mysterious ways. 🤣 it REALLY thinks this is the right time.
Three hours of slow bliss 😎
Who needs screen savers of a fish tank or fire place when we can put this on and relax. Only problem would be that you would not want to get back to work. "Yes boss, still updating Windows, honest".
I moored on this river at Bidford for 3 years. It's a beautiful river - until it floods and then it's a nightmare!
Oooh !!! A Viking boat , be afraid ...... be very afraid :-)
On saying that we got an ex hire Viking Afloat boat and everybody gives us a wide berth .... 🤣🤣🤣
Great video, I watched the entire thing although I fast forwarded a few times.
Do some more like it. When are you going to be doing some vlogs up north?
Cheers. I have done others like it already, scroll through my channel to see. Also see my recent route planning vlog for future travel plans.
This is the sort of video I look for to play on the telly to turn it from an unused black rectangle to a nice moving picture in the corner of the room.
Exactly how I would imagine them being used!
Are you able to travel faster on a river than a canal? Great coverage of the travel. Thanks for taking me along. I really enjoyed the cruise.
Yes, the rivers I've been on have a 6mph upstream / 8 mph downstream limit.
Thanks!
Thank you very much! 😀😀
Good Show :)
Cruising the Cut, the SlowTV edition!
Instead of calling it "Not a Vlog", you should call these something like CC-Slow or SlowCC-TV or Cruising Slow.
This was so nice and beautiful. I had a thought. Maybe you could put this to some nice relaxation music. Make a series of them for TH-cam. Thanks from Boston.
I would never add a music soundtrack to this type of video. Music is too subjective; what 1 person likes, 99 others will hate. Much better, if you wish to have music, is simply to play your own choice while you watch.
Hope you know what a lucky duck you are! This is a nice life. away from computer screens and spoiled brats!
If I had a boat, I think I'd change to horn to something a Maserati air horn with the three notes, or the horn off of large truck. It would get people's attention for sure.
Excellent all the kincks in my neck are gone
Could u make a video showing your max speed? Cause wow.. I knew it was slow but wow lol
I was probably doing max speed in this video. On canals, the limit is 4mph, on this river it's 6mph upstream.
Fairly. Confident that I can claim at least 100 views of this notavlog. It is excellent background noise for wfh
Needs a death metal thrash killer soundtrack!!!!! nah only joking.