The Tidal Thames: Brentford To Teddington.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2018
- This is the video of us entering the thames at brentford, a trip i know lots of boaters are sceared to do, so I figured I would film it so y'all can see its not so bad!
We had some drama with the lock keeper at the Thames Lock Brentford, as we had booked and where asked to be there at 7:30AM only for the lock keeper not to show up untill 8:40! but we did make it out onto the thames, even if it was high tide!
we passed a few islands from the book and maybe on the way back if we have time i can do a loop around them!
hope you all enjoy this very very long video!
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Cracking episode there girl. Keep 'em coming. Love you and your adventures!
Very nice and relaxing Jasmin - thank you :-) Also, very cute hat and outfit at the end!
thank you! I love it !
Watching this was significantly more enjoyable that I thought possible! And your beautiful face and mellifluous tones were just the frosting (uh.. I mean icing) on the cake. Thanks a million!
@4.40, it's a floating dry dock. it partially sinks, the boat is moved over it. then it's re-floated, lifting the boat out of the water.
thats so cool!
Thanks so much for this. I've been hearing all sorts of stuff from people, but there's nothing like virtually doing the journey with somebody who then covers all the bases, such as insurance etc. ❤
Loved this, wished I had appreciated this part of London more and spent time exploring when I lived there! Thank you for footage x🥰
Hi Jasmin and Seb (hope that I got that right!)
Absolutely wonderful footage, and incredible music!😊😀
Thanks so much for sharing 😊
All love, and best wishes, Claire, Berlin 😘 😘 ✌ 👍
yes is it seb! thank you claire!
Two Ropes: So, at Teddington and up to the sourse beyond St Johns we ask for two ropes because of the variety in the river users and in the locks. On the canals you'll have predominantly narrowboats in locks built just wide enough for the boat. So a 6'10" wide boat in a 7'6" wide lock. Whereas on the Thames we see vessels between 3" and 20' wide and from 6' to 120' long. We treat everyone the same and work to the lowest denominator.
The locks also vary widely around 120' long to 600'. 16' wide to 23' and with a depth between 2'6" and 9'. Some fill from the gates, others from the bottom and some do both at the same time.
Hope that helps ;)
Love the safari outfit at the end. Very cute with the hat. The whole trip was interesting. Thank you.
thanks I loved it too! living my adventure life!
Excellent video. A bucket wish list got fed in 2017 as we did the Thames from Kingston Upon Thames to Oxford over 12 days on the Wessex Rose (WR) and a canal nut was born. She is not exactly a do it yourself hire boat but when there was work to be done I was there. In 2018 we did Pewsey to Bristol on the K &A and lots more work which I live for. What history to work and live in. In 12 days we will once again board the WR at Stoke Bruerne on the Grand Union for a 14 day cruise and will make this journey from Brentford to Teddington a 14 ending in Kingston Upon Thames. This therefore was most educational and only serves to stoke the fire. Next year we shall finish the K & A from Pewsey to Reading before finishing in Windsor. Thanks for sharing. Loved it.
Make sure to call the volenteer number when you get to the hanwell flight
A brilliant narrowboat traveler really enjoy her lifetime in nature course ! 😅😂👍👍👍
Thank you so much, great video, completely demystified the whole trip. We are about 7 months away from joining the narrowboaters , just can't wait. My Brother live near subiton and he does not know we are buying a boat. We want to surprise him‼. The most useful of the vloggers for NARROWBOATING, brilliant thank you for both of you time, and keep on doing them Colin and Heather, our boat will be called bystillwaters.
Brillient video,very informative, just subscribed to you Chanel, I be watching all your videos
Can’t wait
Col
Thanks so much for making this video - brilliantly made and highly informative.
I will be making this trip for the first time in my narrowboat soon and this video has answered a lot of my questions.
Well done!
And great sound track!
Thank you I know it's probably very dull for some but I hope for those that want do to the trip it is helpful
I now live in driest Hertfordshire but grew up on the Thames, sailing and canoeing, your video brought back happy memories, been some changes! Water and music - great combination.
Loved the video, the river is beautiful and well narrated.
Thank you... this really cheered me up & beautiful music too!!
maia is the band and my partners guitar can be found at seb instagram.com/sebgday_guitar/
Thank you Jasmin . What a lovely way to end my weekend ; lots of memories of the Thames and also of Eel Pie Island too. A while back , I took a seventy foot butty boat along the same route and then onto the Oxford cut and the full circle back to the GU. Looking forward to the next video. Happy boating .
we are almost at oxford now , but think we will come back on the thames!
Thank you so much for this video and your reassurance. We are hoping to do this in the summer and then head back up to Oxford. It doesn’t feel so scary now ❤️
Really really enjoyed this one too Jasmin (and Seb) ...loved seeing the paddle steamer raising it's chimneys and all the varied river craft alongside. Felt as we could almost be there... one day! Thanks again for sharing.
that was super cool!
That was really wonderful! What a wonderful way to learn more about the British water culture. I've been in lockdown in the USA since mid March. So lucky I found all these wonderful videos about narrowboats.❤️❤️❤️
how are you holding up?
I know or care little about narrowboats but I live along this route and watching your film in dark, miserable February 2021 was perfectly relaxing. Loved it.
Really informative and reassuring. Thank you.
this is one of the best films I have seen on here, well done, good l; luck.
Thanks for this, I grew up in Richmond and haven’t seen this stretch of the river for years.
Great vid Jasmine... brings back memories of being brought up on the banks of the Thames. My dad was a boatman for a rowing club in Chiswick and we’d sometimes take the coaching launch up River. I’d also cycle with my mates along the tow paths up to Richmond, Teddington, Kingston and Eel Pie Island! Oh! And that’s a canoeist not a rower by the way... Keep em coming... Avast!
oh that sounds like so much fun!
that was lovely . i just sat back chilling out with it on the big tv ,, love it
glad you enjoyed it and found it relaxing
Love this video. Pulled up Google Earth on my other monitor, and followed you through the entire route. Very enjoyable. 😀
hahaha 1st video people have said they have been doing this! its very cool!
Thanks Jasmine that was lovely
thanks col!
A great video. I didn’t think I’d watch the entire video in one session but it flew over. The scenery and photography was lovely. I also really enjoyed the music so I’ll check the notes to see if you added the details. Sebastian’s music was really good and the section as you went onto the Thames was fantastic and so appropriate, it really suited the journey and environment . Thanks.
im glad you like it the other band is called maia and there is now a link in the discription or search maia the band
wonderful video! music, footage, commentary, length, just everything really. god, just wonderfully and artfully filmed. music choice was tops as well.
it was sooo long I didnt mean for it to be but thought it would be worth wile for those thinking of doing this trip!
Uhhhhhh Brentford, Yech. Ooooooo Teddington....nice. I lived in Chiswick and then Sunbury-on-Thames for half my life and I am very familiar with all of this. Thank you for posting it.
Hi Jasmin: I usually just lurk out here watching and not commenting. But this episode is especially beautiful. Thank you for such a wonderful episode. My wife and I dream of cruising the canals of the UK and Europe. I travel them via Google Earth and open all the pictures people have posted along the way. Someday I would like to see these places in person from a boat. Thank You for sharing your travels and adventures.
hi daniel well thank you for taking the time to comment! im glad that you enjoyed this episode!
What a great video; so calm and quiet and so magical : the vegetation so green; the river so calm the sun on the water, I like the music it has something wistful of the sunny morning burning away in the sun... I felt I was there on the boat.
glad you liked it!
Liked the video, loved the music. Thank-you
fantastic video so relaxing watching it after Sunday lunch, what have got growing on top of the boat
thank you norman!
Thank you for this. Relaxing to watch while puffing away ;)
so glad you liked it!
Great video! Thank you for posting this. I spent a lot of happy times walking the towpath from Brentford to Hampton (and beyond) in the 1980's and 1990's.
thank you alan , has it changed much?
hello, Jasmin & Seb.
Yes it has changed a bit !
Although my memories are land side.
Quite a few new buildings nearer to Brentford. Also just past Eel Pie Island footbridge (on the right) there is a site fence where the swimming pool once was. OK. I know that times are hard, but whoever nicked it please put it back, no questions asked...
Sunday 29th July it is MUCH cooler, a relief for me. It is even raining (1st time since July 4th). Stay at a comfortable temperature... All The Best. Alan.
its been a bit crazy lately!
Brilliant! I will be doing that run when I take my boat, Isis , north next spring. Thanks, very enjoyable.
it has been wonderful this year i highly recomend it!
Well I can Honestly say I thoroughly enjoyed that relaxing and loved the Music and just for that I will have to subscribe Now
oh yay thank you im so glad you liked it!
Very nice, beautiful trip.
A real delight, thank you.
well thank you for watching it!
Really enjoyed the video, thanks for making it.
thank you for watching it!
Lovely video,great music and - if I may say - stylish outfit ! 😀
thank you! there is links to the musicans in the discrition of the video!
Nice to see a change of scenery - very interesting.
thank you sally!
Hello jasmin and send great vid thanks makes us want one even more 👍
do lots of research!
Love all the Georgian architecture on the left just after the bridge where the tour boat lowered it’s funnels to pass under. The cheap islands are probably submerged a lot of the time. ‘Steering’ not driving. Love the music - so peaceful and appropriate.
its so pretty here!
It's sadly 'Faux Georgian'. Built in the 1980s and designed by the dismally parochial Quinlan Terry.
Such an enjoyable video! I even got on Google Earth and followed along your path. So interesting to match GE with your video. I was lucky enough to spend three weeks in England this past spring and had such a wonderful time. Got to see the Thames in central London and even took a boat tour. As fun as that was, your part was much more scenic. Super cute outfit at the end!
thank you! how was the boat tour ? sounds like you had a good time!
Great video - and great music: thank you :)
im glad you liked it check out maia facebook.com/maiatheband
Jasmin. grand video thank you. cheers
thank you derrick! :)
What a beautiful video. Nice tunes too.
thank you ! sebs working an album!
I love Eel Pie Island (and Twickenham) but I caught a glimpse of my happy place for years, The Barmy Arms, which is on the right, before the footbridge. Is only quick though.
Don't worry Jasmin about the long video, I loved it, great scenery along the way, and look forward to more of the same. Where I live means I'll never get to enjoy canal boating like you do, but watching your videos will be as close as I can get I reckon. I'm hoping for lunch on Eel Pie Island if I can make it to the UK again, so that'll be one extra customer for them.
Again, thank you Seb & Jasmin - From Nigel in Tas.
thanks nigel and tas! lunch on the island sounds lush!
What nice place I'll look these places up on the map tomorrow. From nl keep on boating.
I used to ride that part of the Thames in a dinghy with a thirteen horse out board. That was in the seventies. Been through teddington a few times. Notice theirs a lot more boats too. Happy days.
I used to follow the cambridge Oxford boat race in the dingy from Putney to chiswick. Lots of fun
Fantastic film! I guess you are brave both of you, getting out on so big waters without life-vests. The style in the end looked a little like an English lady being a tourist in India in the old days.
That outfit at the end is just too cute!
thank you I loved it!
Lovely relaxing video, interesting info and love the music :)
thank you!
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Loved it again.
thanks john!
Really enjoyed that, thank you
thank you martin!
Really enjoyed this. Thanks
thanks jack! glad you liked it!
Really enjoyed that. Well filmed, edited and great tunes too.👍 No offence, but you did make me laugh with some of your comments - re the floating docks.😂 But great slow TV.😀
you can laugh I dont know anything
Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!
Thank yoi
Thank you ao much for this video!
glad it was helpful for you!
Very cool video. I don't own a boat or stay in London. Actually I stay in Scotland.
I've watched a bunch of London canal trips now . This one is the best.
If I ever find myself in an end of the world Zombie situation and get trapped in London. I now feel confident enough to leave the confined streets of the city and find safety on the waters of the Thames.
Many thanks. I'll raise a beer to you if that situation ever occurs. Good luck .
my nice is in Scotland i plan to visit, can you recommend any interesting places to go for seeing boat?
@@ThisNarrowboatAdventure it's very nice in places. The North is very nice up near Fort William and Glencoe . That's excellent for scenic mountainous adventures.
The best bits for canal boats would be to visit central Scotland. The Falkirk Wheel is one of the most visited attractions in Europe. It's a canal bridge that connects Edinburgh ( The Union canal ) and Glasgow ( Forth and Clyde canal ) . If you search on TH-cam. London Boat Girl made 3 excellent videos about Scotland's canals :-) . If you are in central Scotland. I'd recommend visiting the Island of Arran. It's a short ferry ride from a town called Ardrossan. Arran has been described as Scotland in miniature. It's stunning.
Thanks for this video especially as it covered a stretch of the Thames I knew well from my youth. It was nice to see how much had changed and even more how much hadn't.
I think your commentary on Eel Pie Island was a bit under done. It was in the 1960s one of the hotest venues in London. Just about anyone who wanted to be someone went to the Island and performing groups included the Rolling Stone, Bowie, The Who, Status Quo (I think but I wasn't really all there that evening) and many, many more. It was also the best pick up venue I have ever known. If a boy or girl couldn't pull at Eel Pie Island they would never pull anywhere.
thats because I am Planning to do a whole video on eel pie island seperately
Hi do you remember the chain ferry 3d return !!!!!?
great one! Thanks!
thank you douglas!
Lovely video Jasmin, thanks for sharing, was wondering if any expert Thames boaters here because i thought Richmond to Teddington is only tidal when Richmond lock sill is down (-1+1 HW Richmond) then the wall is raised and the lock is used -2+2 HW with 8 pound fee.
So when the sill is raised Richmond to Teddington becomes non tidal..
If going upstream at an average speed of 4-5KT i suggest you leave 45 minutes before HW of your current location and not destination, then you will just ride the tide all the way up.
Eal Pie Island certainly one of the most famous. Another is Tagg's Island, home of the Kasino, and then AC Cars. Anyway lovely leisurely vid - enjoyed it- thanks.
you should see my islands videos
@@ThisNarrowboatAdventure i'll take a look
that was a pleasure to come with you two on your journey, lots of floating dry docks along the way and a few masive dumb barges, pluss plenty of vessels that look either abandoned or in need of some TLC , one thing though where were the life jackets?
we dont use them for this bit if we went to lime house they might be needed!
Lovely video!
thank you!
Saturday mourning I saw 3 narrow boats come under Tower Bridge on the live youtube cam and it was very calm, but it was VERY early 5-6 am
its much calmer early in the morning so its a good time for a nb to cruise in that part of the thames!
Where the boat is up on the dry dock. The dry dock can be ballasted down with water,in the bottom tanks, the boat goes in, is centered over pre-set blocking. The water is pumped out of the ballast tanks, and you have a boat high and dry to work on.
Cheers
Carl
thank you thats soo cool!
Great vid... Thanks
Hey Jasmin i love your Video , A Big Hello from Denmark
hello, I visited Copenhagen last year, its wonderful ,the boats and fishing where great too
I did the stretch from Limehouse as a kid in my parents' narrowboat, it was exciting back then with one metre high wake from the trip-boats... That was pre-Marchioness days and I believe it's much more regulated now. Not sure I'd think it was 'exciting' these days...
I’ve missed you all. Glad you reported in.
I have another video tomorrow i think!
It looks like Eel Pie Island is pretty defensible, and would make a good place to be after the zombie apocalypse... Nice music, btw!
I have thought that about many of the islands!
The zombie seals will have you
Cool! Narrowboat races. You lost though. Interesting to see how many jets were coming in for landings at Heathrow.
Miss Jasmin, I live in Florida,USA...I've drove semi trucks all my working life,after watching Mykaskin's videos I'm feeling like I've missed a big something in life,...and yes Mam I bet You are a real sport,..please no offense intended,I really like Your videos on youtube, and have so many questions,but will wait and maybe by watching and listening will learn the answers, Thank You for the good clean videos...Johnny b
i have some family in florida what part are you in? feel free to ask questions also it may not be to late, lots of boating in florida! and many people go on narrowboat hollidays!
Just subscribed. Thanks for vid
Loads of narrowboats go from limehouse to Brentford and teddington. It's choppy but as long as your engine vents are high enough above the waterline it's fine. I've been from Brentford to limehouse a few times but going that way really isn't for the feinthearted because the turn into limehouse isn't easy
As a Pacific Ocean Sailer I respect the caution the canal boaters take... But those boats are very stable
I think the fear comes from all your worldly possessions being inside, and tbh we did see a boats engine catch fire on the way back and have to tow them part way to the lock
I think I'm in love 😍
aww thank you:)
Somewhere along the Thames near here (?) on the left (N) side, a family built a house right on an island in the river where it often flooded so the design was like a concrete tub inside another sunken one. You can find the video on Great Designs on TH-cam. The concept was that as the river rose into flood stage the house rose accordingly because it floated . Trouble was that when completed they discovered that it would not stay completely level due to the extra weight of their possessions and furnishings... duhhhh.. so they had to add weight in the exact location which would balance it. iAlso the stupid contractor’s ‘barge’ used to get machinery onto the island tipped over and the JCV submerged.all the materials had to be brought to the island by barge. The owners also had to battle with neighbors who wanted nothing to change and reveal their outdated homes. More money than sense although the end result was pleasing. NB They aren’t summer houses, they are BOAT HOUSES.
there are actually a good amount of houses on islands that will float if their island floods its a very good ideal if you live on an island
Liked the music
thank you! dont bite me please!!!
Excellent video girl, the extremely high tides are from a king tide and sometimes a low pressure system at the same time. Global warming will not do those buildings any favours either. I noticed one of the boats you passed was painted much the same as your colourful shorts, lol. Hey loved this video so all the very best
thank you ken! im glad you liked it!
Nearly forgot sorry excellent vid!!
welll thank you , where you too tired to remember? ;)
I notice you always hug the inside of the turns on the river. Being a river boater myself I can tell you that is the shallowest part and many boats run aground that way and have to wait for the next tide to get underway again. That is if they were lucky enough not to have run aground at dead high tide.
we do it incase any one is coming the other way!
@@ThisNarrowboatAdventure still pretty decy incase you run aground. The other boat that was with you was the best place to be in the river just off centre from the middle.
36:34 No you're wrong, the one next to the moored boat is their home, the one in the background is the summer house lol. 37:40 Ohh my God you need to have super eyesight to see that one during the day! The red light is as tiny as traffic lights from a distance!
Cool Chick.... Hello from California ☀️
thanks :)
cood music love it
maia the band for the band stuff and for the rest seb my partner on guitar there are links in the video discription!
I love your plant container on your narrowboat roof,what kind of herbs do you grow in them,
rosemary, mint and lavender
a friend of mine recently did this. and her boat is 4? feet long, and only has a beta 20 HP engine! if you know someone experienced, take them with you as my friend did. (she took the deputy editor of canal boat magazine!).
my friend does it on an 18hp engine! but he has like 10 years experince!
Wonderful video of your trip. I have a question. You passed some moored boats that looked like they were well over 100 tons. Do some people live on those big ones? It looked to me like one of them had a small garden on deck.
yes i think so ! at eel pie island a man showed me in his massive house boat !
beautiful - a very relaxing ride - thank you! a few years ago we watched a couple of boats go through the Brentford lock and ran through the park to the end to see how they made it onto the river! spent a while trying to see what the huge crane was lifting, then realised it was a smudge on my screen.... and seeing all those boats facing you was amazing - those towns look so different from this angle
thank you! im glad you liked it! they look pretty special from the water yea!
Hey, isn't that the famous television correspondent Flora Pylo? Thanks for the beautiful trip and music. Cheers!
hahaha shhh this is my pen name
Sweet Thames run softly, until I end my song.
The Thames above Richmond bridge neve dries out,as there is a half tide lock inorder that Teddington locks can work 24/7
i didnt know that i am sorry i had been misinformed!
Nice relaxing video to watch, I assume all the aircraft In the video were heading Into Heathrow, you can see them fly past as soon as you entered the Thames, Cheers from Vancouver :)
I have no idea
Yes, they certainly were.