51. Warwick to Bascote by narrowboat on the Grand Union Canal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ส.ค. 2024
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I'd spent about a week moored at the Saltisford Arm while I went to visit family (the ones who I was supposed to have gone down the Birmingham and Worcester canal to see, but didn't). With the Crick Show fast approaching, it was time to head on back towards Northamptonshire, so here's a couple of days cruising in that direction.
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Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the TH-cam music library
I'm using these videos as a kind of therapy. They remind me as to how things used to be in better times.
Loved your statement "When I'm Prime Minister roads will be banned, and we will all get around by canal boat. It's far more civilized."
I dislike graffiti myself. The brickwork is beautiful in and of itself, no need for artistic enhancements. Same would go for utility boxes and everything else, they may not be ascetically pleasing, but they're a lot worse after someone spray paints them. Another enjoyable Friday afternoon watching you vlogs. Good weekend!
I do love the town names: Long Itchington, Cow Roast and Greater Shagging. Cheers from PhilaPA, David.
Hey there, Tom. Originally from Media, PA, myself. A lot of Welsh names where we're from, no? Bryn Mawr, Bryn Athyn, Bala Cynwyd... I also recall some young ladies helping me find "Greater Shagging" in pubs in Manayunk, West Chester, Media, etc., as a young man some 20 years ago (lol)
Cheers
another good video i am a 14 year old who loves narrow boats my grandad used to have one, some of the best times in my life.
one day i will be on a narrowboat one day.
You will! One day... Thanks for watching.
I don't like Vlogs but I have done yours back to back once found. Something strangely relaxing and enjoyable about the combination of commentary, footage and information. Look forward to each one. All I need is an income without commitment and I'll go cruising.
Haha, don't we all! Glad you like them, cheers
I love the pictures of all the Spring babies, the ducklings, signets, and goslings so sweet.
Hi there, just watched all 51 of your Vlogs to date here in wintry New Zealand with my wife. Congratulations and thank you for your well put together videos. "Our" narrow boat (well, the one we use that belongs to our friends in Dorridge) resides at the Black Boy Cruising Club just up the canal from Kingswood Junction at Lapworth on the GU. Really enjoyed seeing some of the canals that we have done before and some new ones. You are whetting our appetites for further cruises.
Looking forward to seeing more from you in the months to come. Keep up the good work.
That's quite some viewing marathon! Glad you enjoyed them. Cheers.
What a lovely 2 days travelling. Super film David, Really enjoyed it. Baby swans are sygnets and baby geese are goslings by the way.
You make even place names sound lyrical.
An absolute joy. Thank you.
Always look forward to you next video to see where you've wandered off to. Enjoy your witty commentary. Kudos & looking forward to your next installment! Cheers!
Thank you from across the pond for your continued videos. I've viewed each and every one of your vids and continue to follow you. :) I would love to live a narrow boat/canal life. But alas. I live vicariously through your videos, and several others here on TH-cam.
Please keep the vidoes coming. :)
Thank you!
Honestly. What a wonderful way to spend your time. LIFE even.........
Please don't be embarrassed about your cereal bowl, it's as charming as you are sir.
His chimney top went snap crackle and pop.
Hmm...smoked wheetabix? goose chicks brings to mind Goslings..btw, tasty rum with some ginger beer! good go to drink after the G & T! Another great one and thanks so much for sharing!
Pick up a neodymium magnet to attach to rope, not only to retrieve lost metal items, but maybe do some magnet fishing around the old bridges and maybe fish up old metal items from the past that were lost or tossed over.
Great videos, I've been binge watching them. The boats & places are very beautiful. Wish it was closer to me to see in person and to live on a narrowboat.
If got a magnet! Glad you enjoy them.
You're definitely all about the chicks in this one -- must be the new haircut and smart jacket ;-)
Another great vlog, well one thing about the canal life, you don't have to worry about getting plenty of exercise, looks like the locks make sure of that :0)
Lovely baby water creatures....and oh, the flowering trees.... I n upstate New York ,where I grew up, there was the Erie Canal. Then it was filled in so roads could be made. Ugly noisy, dangerous highways with multiple lanes. Little bits of the old canal remain, or did, and it was lovely.
Excellent. We enjoy the canal photos and you pointing out interest. Thank you.
Well done with another enjoyable vlog
Doing a bit of a marathon binge viewing 51 episodes today and I'm tempted to go on all night , however three things. baby geese are goslings, baby swans are cygnets and baby ducks are ducklings. Apart from that, this is a wonderful series and makes me want to go back on the water on a semi permanent basis. Keep up the good work thoroughly enjoying it. Simon
Hi. Thanks. Yes, I do know what the babies are supposed to be called really. Glad you like the videos. Cheers
Love the vids hope you post more often love the high production value
Thank you. I doubt more often, one a week max is about my limit :-)
Love the bird shots❣The flowers and sheep are nice too!
Well after 3 weeks without the internet here followed by a week in the UK for my son's wedding I was way behind with all the TH-camrs videos that I follow. I am pleased to say that watching this video means I am finally back up to date after weeks of binge watching. I won't know what to do with myself now, apart from filming this week's video of course.
Congratulations on your binge. I hope it was good :-)
you have a great sense of humor...love the ducks and your cereal bowl...lol...keep sending love watching your videos...thanks
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thank you for updates, fun to watch the ups and downs on your boat adventures
Thank you for watching.
Hi David ,l am currently going through your brilliant collection of blogs,starting from number one,l was totally compelled to watch them,,
Because they are so addictive,questions ,,l would like to know,why is a set of locks,called a flight, carry on boating ,
It is addicting! I am currently binge-watching this series myself. A series of locks is called a "flight" much for the same reason a series of stairs is called a flight. A flight of stairs, a flight of locks -- a flight being anything that elevates one. Cheers!
Another fab video
So cute with the different ducks.
Long Itchington. Where I was born and lived the first 18 years of my life before getting the wanderlust to gad about the world. Bascote pronounced Bas-cut and Fosse pronounced Foss as in loss. Happy memories of the canal life back in the 60s and 70s. HS2 will scream over the canal near those Fosse locks and then into a tunnel I think on the Northern side of the canal. Much construction work when I was along there just before Christmas.
I can see you are enjoying yourself on the cut albeit for a few nastys. I, like yourself would wish for everything the eye can see to be so perfect but alas not everyone shares our tastes in beauty.
Another interesting video thanks
Canal Time . Just set my life clock on it . One reason I love your channel . Useful life tips . :-):-):-):-)
really enjoy your videos a timeless side of England
Thank you
OK, I thought that clip with the fuzzy hat was the topper in the series, but then along came the cereal bowl. Priceless stuff.
Well done on uploading this just in time for my lunch break :) The swans do exactly the same on the Shannon river where there is plenty of room for them! Torn between thinking they're doing it for the laugh, or keeping the boat away from the chicks. Anyway, another great blog - that boat of yours is quite the looker!
Haha, glad I gave you something to watch over tea and a sarnie! Cheers
A bit like chickens in the farmyard - you couldn't run them over if you tried - our cat does the same thing, strolls accross the busy road cutting dirty looks at the motorists who think he should hurry along ;-)
Two of my favorite things..1) Watching CtC canal boating videos & 2) Learning unique British town names.."Itiching-ton" haha awesome. Any other good ones come to mind?
The town is called "Long Itchington" :) There's loads of amusing village and town names in England. One of my favourites is "Middle Wallop" which has the village of "Over Wallop" to the north and "Nether Wallop" to the south. Collectively the 3 villages are known as The Wallops
Long Itchinton is one of our favourite stopping places, there used to be a restaurant up in the village that was in the good food guide, run by an elderly couple and their family. Not sure if it's still there though, but the food was excellent!
Oh, maybe I should have got off the boat but apart from a quick walk I didn't look round much!
well done my friend
No doubt you've sorted your 'cereal bowl smoking' device by now, but a narrow flue pipe can be guarded against rain simply by attaching a larger segment of pipe around and above the inner one. Since rain almost never falls straight down, it will strike the inner surface of the outer pipe and run down the outer surface of the inner pipe, as surely as Peter Piper was a Picker...With the appropriate attachment points the outer pipe can be rotated and lowered for tunnel clearance... This works on a cabin stove, no idea if it's a solution for a 'Sausage Barge', but it's not the Wurst idea...
That is brilliant.
Gin and tonic? so you're the cocktails guy! And me who thought all the British people would drink nothing but pure genuine true English Ales!
...and tea offcourse!
Cheers from Italy :)
Tea, of course!
Prior to this video, the only thing I knew about Leamington Spa (from my U.S. vantage point) was that it's the birthplace of racing driver David Hobbs.
your right I'm learning to fly one of those from Over Farm near Gloucester
my boats chimney lid got blown off its a hard life! goose chicks are the cutest! I think your a lock master now!
Note to both of us: secure the bloody chimney lid!!
yes will on my next one!
Very nice video. I may have said this before but watching your TH-cam channel it makes me wish we had boat canals here in Canada.
You've got lovely lakes and mountains if I'm not mistaken!
That's very true. Living in Newfoundland I feel spoiled in that fact. :)
Nice 🤔🇬🇧bowl I'm a big fan of Kellogs. Rice crispys
nice 1 m8, stay safe, warm an well eh!
I must say, again, that I'm thoroughly enjoying these videos. But the other thing that constantly amazes and impresses me is the way the English countryside begin and end. Out here in BC the houses drool on and on then theres a field then more subdivisions. The UK seems to have got that urban country split much better organized. One might say - an urbane countryside. Or not!
Haha
Holstein cereal bowl design...gotta love that.....
I thought it was a soccer ball.
Yes, it's a football pattern. The inside is marked with a pitch! It was commemorative for something, I forget what.
FoSS, as in Fosse Way, I believe.
Superb countryside and canal which I've cruised several times myself.
I wouldn't have known how to pronounce "Fosse Way" either! Cheers
Indeed, it is pronounced FOSS, named such due to its proximity to the Fosse Way, the major Roman road running straight through (more or less) from Exeter to Lincoln.
Seven cygnets swimming - adorable.
Kath got a really big magnet, I think it is called a sea magnet for rescuing things dropped over the side. You should have put your chimney on eBay as art I have seen some interesting things in galleries, I am old school paintings are art.
Goslings!
I agree!
I love watching your old Vlogs. I’m gutted that you didn’t get to become PrimeMinister again this year…. Mussant Grrrumble, maybe next time eh.
Starting Location:
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Cape Lock:
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River Avon and Railway Aqueducts:
www.google.com/maps/@52.2855848,-1.5583522,434m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Fosse Locks:
www.google.com/maps/@52.2753696,-1.4661462,860m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Bascote Locks:
www.google.com/maps/@52.2741601,-1.4232593,302m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Ending Location:
www.google.com/maps/@52.2741729,-1.4037129,312m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Loved the vlog on the boat show....very informative...one thing I haven't heard anything about....Air Conditioners?
Generally draw too much power for a boat’s battery system and in the Uk only ever needed for about 2 or 3 days a year!
There is a company in Australia named 'Airborne' which manufactures and distributes those little weight-shift ultralight aircraft all over the world.
They produce a single-seat budget priced model which gives every appearance of being little more than a hang-glider attached to a lawn chair with a tiny motor behind it!
i knew that, but i've never heard it described quite that well m8!
ill vote for you!
Haha, thank you!
I thought Prime Ministers were chosen through battle in the Thunderdome.
I can do that. How hard can it be?
CruisingTheCut 90% preparation, 10% perspiration. I believe in you.
First pronunciation of Fosse is correct! The Fosse Way is a Roman Road between Lincoln and Glastonbury
Thank you! I can't remember what I said now, I'll have to go and watch my own video :-)
Thank Kellogg's for bowls!
:-)
You need a magnet on a rope, that would have got your stove lid back. I have a magnet fishing channel and apart from other things, find umpteen windless in and around locks. I leave them by the towpath for passing boats to help themselves.
I have a magnet on a rope and I used it but it did not bring up the lid.
CruisingTheCut . Typical, I bet you could find a few bicycle frames though. Why o why do people throw rubbish in the canals. Bring back national service, that's what I say.
Absolutely. Just as long as I don't have to do it...
@Harry M You're right, Harry--it's aluminium in the UK. But in the US it's aluminum. Who was it who said that the UK and the US were "two countries divided by a common language"? LOL
@Harry M sorry but your wrong....and I’m English,
“British chemist Humphry Davy, who performed a number of experiments aimed to isolate the metal, is credited as the person who named the element. In 1808, he suggested the metal be named alumium.This suggestion was criticized by contemporary chemists from France, Germany, and Sweden, who insisted the metal should be named for the oxide, alumina, from which it would be isolated.In 1812, Davy chose aluminum, thus producing the modern name”
Obviously we spell it Aluminium over here
Thanks for another fine Vlog..I have been following your travels with a map of the canals I printed from the internet. I am wondering why I have not seen some industries young kids showing up at the locks offering to help for a fair price....would seem like a profitable summer job and a help for those out of shape.
They're probably too busy mugging old people and dealing drugs.
And doing “art work “ on every available space..🤨😡
Ladies & gentlemen, please welcome.....Goose Chick n the 3 Goslings!! 🐤 🐥 🐥 🐥
I am hoping to have my boat at Tewkesbury nice vlog
When I was a youngster my dad had a sailing boat moored at Bredon, just up the river from Tewkesbury, we'd go on it at weekends and sail or motor down to the Tewkesbury sailing club. Had to lower the mast to get under the M5 bridge!
Yes i know the club, i am saving like mad so i can buy a narrow-boat. vlogs like yours keep me saving, thank you for your time making the vlogs, nice boat by the way.
Thank you
Another interesting and immensely watchable video --- at last! (Thank you)
Sorry but I always look forward to your offerings with relish.
A couple of points though. "Goose chicks" are called 'Goslings', and "Swan chicks" are called 'Cygnets'. I know your title is "Hot Chicks", but REALLY!
Hi. Yes, I do know what they're called really. But it was all about the chicks.
Had you considered one of those powerful magnets some people evidently like to 'fish' with in streams and canals David?
Judging by your mishap with the rain hat from your chimney I suspect one might also come in handy on future occasions.
Yes, I have one of those
Pity you just missed out on the PM's job! :-)
Next time...
Would it not be a good investment to buy a strong magnet, as you lost the top of your chimney it would also come in handy if you dropped your lock key. Hope that helps. As you can see im now upto vid 51 and loving every minute of them. Its a dream i have for when we retire in about 6 years. Still working on getting the wife to agree but i will keep hounding her. Take care Ken
I have such a magnet!
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GEESE YOUNG ARE GOSLINGS....SWAN YOUNG ARE CYGNETS....many people nowadays don't give a toss about the countryside or elsewhere and throw litter down without regard...
Yes, I'm fully aware of that! Thanks.
I see the horn, on front of boat, has not been repaired or replaced. Been to Tesco's lately?
I noticed that you have 40001 subscribers as I start this video. 1953 ADT
So I have! That is very pleasing :-)
At 2:24 was one of those goslings named Ryan?
Cygnets, goslings....LOL. A group of cats is called a "Clowder". A group of birds called a nice night at the pub.
We Texans particularly appreciate British humour.
OK, since you mentioned it briefly in this vlog... Is it fairly common to bump into things or other boats while cruising about? Or to get bumped into by others while moored?
It's not "common" but it does sometimes happen and whilst many people chant the oft-heard mantra "it's a contact sport", it jolly well isn't or shouldn't be. An occasional accidental bump may be excused if the perpetrator is apologetic but it should not be treated in a blase fashion.
Can you run boats at night? I don’t see bow and stern lights.
You can, unless you're a hirer in which case the hire companies prohibit it. It's not generally advised as you'll disturb other people.
Well done again Dave, how are you going with the wettest June on record?.
Staying put and doing work. And editing videos. Not doing much boating.
Moor hens! Aha! That's what I'd called coots, so you do have them.
Are they the same thing?!
Yes. A smallish blackish water bird with a white bill that goes up the forhead a bit, red eyes. They don't have webbed feet, swim by thrusting their heads forward. Members of the rail family. Various names are coot, moor hen, moorhen.
From Wikipedia: "Chick mortality occurs mainly due to starvation rather than predation as coots have difficulty feeding a large family of hatchlings on the tiny shrimp and insects that they collect. Most chicks died in the first 10 days after hatching, when they are most dependent on adults for food. Coots can be very brutal to their own young under pressure such as the lack of food, and after about three days they start attacking their own chicks when they beg for food. After a short while, these attacks concentrate on the weaker chicks, who eventually give up begging and die."
I saw this happening on the canals, and grew to hate coots.
Nature really is charming sometimes :-(
Do you carry a magnet for fishing out metal objects?
Yes
That's a rather large cereal bowl even by Yank standards! Is it a football or Holstein pattern? 😂
Football! It was a special edition produced by Kellogg's for a World Cup I think.
Red Arrow boat team?
The Red Arrows are the precision flying team of the Royal Air Force, similar to the Thunderbirds in the U.S. and the Snowbirds in Canada.
Just a quick question, have you been on the Leeds-Liverpool canal in your travels ? we are renting a canal boat and wondered what it is like and how difficult for complete novices.
I haven't, no
Cereal bowl... hahahaha
What kind of a plane was that? It doesn't appear to have a tail section.
A glider. Possibly a powered one with a push prop
It's a microlight :)
Actually, a thousand pounds a week for a hire boat doesn't seem that steep. A decent hotel room would cost at least that.
I browsed a couple of the websites of those hirers. A thousand pounds a week is the minimum. It can be twice that depending on date and size of boat.
BasinStreet Design keeping in mind that they don’t hire to soloists, only teams of two or more, and the more likely group size is 4 or so... a couple grand a week is not *cheap*, but it’s not that unreasonable either.
"Hot chicks" was an excellent bit of click-bait! I guess it worked on me. 😂😂😂
Do you still have that cereal bowl or did it stay with the boat?
I think I still have it
@@CruisingTheCut Did you do like a the people you bought the boat from and leave a lot of stuff for the new owners?
The young of a goose are known as goslings.
They are, yes.
On some moons they juggle goslings as the principal form of recreation... m.th-cam.com/video/0Ii4KTwnN1U/w-d-xo.html
I've watched every one of your videos too, all the way from Oz, and I'm really glad that the couple of thumbs-downers seem to have finally given up :)
They haven't; I've simply turned visibility of the Likes and Dislikes off as an experiment. :-)
£1,000- a week to rent a Narrowboat seems good value. A caravan in Weymouth (Haven Holidays) will set you back £2,000 + AARRGGHH!!
(I think I'd have to employ a little #PunkhaWallah to open and shut all those lock gates ;-)
Wow, I didn't know caravans were that costly! I must buy me a field and let some caravans out :-)
Do you ever get hassled by other canal users or passers by? If so, have you ever had to involve police? I guess I am wondering how safe canal life is for a solo person. I love your channel, thank you!
I've never had to call police and have only had one minor incident (kids chucking a stone) but I do know of boaters who've been burgled or had people looking in their well deck or dancing on their roof. It's generally safe, I think, if you moor sensibly. After all, you can get harassed anytime if you live in a house!
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A 1000 quid a week. Al no be paying that. There goes that idea. Back to the drawing board.🧐🧐👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
Wait, a place name you can't pronounce? No pile of vowels lying around to help out? We are shocked!
Just because you seem like someone who'd be in for a bit of pedantry ;) @3:17, those are cygnets, not chicks...
What an outrageous slur! I only like pedantry when I'm doling it out to someone else! (PS I knew it anyway but the title doesn't work with cygnets)
Likewise goose chicks = goslings. :-)
Daisy Chain You're missing the point that the title, like all my titles, is a play on words.
CruisingTheCut Yes, I realized about the awful puns already. I just didn't think you'd milk the gag that much! I love the vlog by the way. I'm seriously thinking of joining you on the cut. Thanks.
Ah, good. You can never milk a good pun too much.
too bad you didn't have a big magnet you could have tied it to a rope and try to fish for your chimney pipe cover
I do have a big magnet. I tried it and couldn't retrieve the lid.