From here in California, it is actually a pleasure to listen to this couple communicate lucidly, emote with enthusiasm, and converse with spontaneity. Here at home, we have a paralyzed and digitized collective well known for grunts and squeals.
Congrats on your 2 year anniversary! I remember Sam saying that she was going to paint Mary L, come Sam don't let us down i know how creative you can be!
Have to watch this again- there’s so much to see!! So many boats, can’t wait to see you reach London❣️ love that little cottage too- thanks Sam and Tim🥰
This is one of the most chill narrowboat videos I’ve watched in a long time. Perhaps it’s the constant drone of the engine, or maybe it’s your peaceful demeanor. Either way, it was quite enjoyable.
Hi Sam, Tim, Lovely Vlog again. Great cruising. Some very interesting boats on the canal. Yellow is interesting: I think it's a ladies thing. A lovely lady I knew 40 years ago, she loved yellow Minis (cars). The water looked nice and clean for a change. I'm always interested in your stats. With few locks in the next 11 miles, its anyone's' game. My bet is on you guys making the forecast mph average. Have a great week.Take Care
Hi Tim and Sam, lovey cruise. I always enjoy looking at the different boats and the names. Narrow boaters are very creative. Tim the wooden boat was beautiful, would love a tour inside and the story behind her. Thank you for sharing.
HA-HA, YOU DIDN'T SEE MY NEW SUBMARINE/WIDEBEAM LURKING JUST BEHIND YOU! VERY GOOD VIDEO - BE INTERESTING TO SEE SAM'S SISTERS NEXT TIME... (ARE YOU GOING TO MOUNT YOUR MECEDES LIMO ON YOUR STERN ONE DAY???) KEEP CHUGGING!
Los Angeles here. This looks like a fantastic life to be living. I’m envious! Beautiful boat you’ve created. - By the way, I enjoy ambient sound recordings of different kinds, water sounds great in stereo, and this one video travels through so many environments, it makes me want to hook it up to a stereo system and really listen to the sounds.
Great Video, absolutely amazing little white cottage in the start of the Video. So fun watching this one, people are creative and someone likes VW 's. Safe Crusing and "Keep On Chugging. " 😃👋
Congratulations on your 2nd boativersary 🥂🎉. Great vlog as always! Always love seeing all the different boats on the canals - that's what makes life interesting! Xxx
Awww! You two are so sweet! Yeah, you got me, I subscribed…!!! p.s. Live in Alperton, not far from the Grand Union Canal, used to watch the boats go by. Intriguing way of life I’ve always fantasised about. I’m hooked….!!!
... Great video 😁 . I built a Ship with a Land rover wheel house , mini clubman front cabin and a caravan section in the middle . Also had jaguar jet droptanks as variable geometry outriggers . Lived aboard for over 15 years 😉...
Once again, thanks for the trips out about town. (from the US). It's good to hear that you guys will still be Chugging next year. Any hint on a route yet? Thanks
Watford, Chorley and Rickmansworth didn't look like London because they're not. They're all outside the Greater London boundary. Near Rickmansworth you had the London Borough of Harrow on the left bank of the canal and Hertforshire on the right for a bit, then you had Hertfordshire on both banks until a few miles after Rickmansworth, when you crossed the Greater London boundary, but into Hillingdon, not Harrow. People think the M25 is the London boundary. In some places it is, in others it's pretty close, but there are a few bits of London beyond the M25 and some quite big chunks of not-London are still inside the ring of the M25. You were cruising one of those slabs of not-London for quite a while.
Enjoyable video guys, thanks. We discovered when doing family history research some years ago that my Great-great Grandfather drowned in the Grand Union Canal at Rickmansworth in 1891. He was a retired police sergeant and the inquest recorded an open verdict, so did he fall in, did he jump in, or was he pushed in? Nobody will ever know!
Nice video - I love the canal and have not yet seen the part which goes into London yet - thanks .... BTW I recognise the fella in the boat ... maybe at a rave :-)
Watford is where I live, if I had known you were passing through I would have said go to D20 in Queens Road it's a board game cafe, you could have introduced them to Argy Bargy!
That first one. For many years there was a boat on the River Leven in Dumbarton with a Morris Minor traveller "cabin" similarly grafted on, and a few miles away near Clynder a small coaster with a Scammell truck cab (the old corrugated iron looking one) as the wheelhouse! ;-)
I bet some of those "abandoned" boats aren't really. I know someone who lived on a boat which looked abandoned, and wasn't navigable, but was their home for at least 3 years. There's lots of stuff the CRT either can't control, or doesn't try to, in certain places in and near London. Yet in other parts they're heavily on the case.
The very first boat looks like something one wouldn't be surprised to see Captain Jack Sparrow standing at the helm! When passing an opposite traveling boat, who has the right of way? Logic would suggest to me, the boat going down-stream would have it.
No upstream/downstream on canals - you stick to the right and give way to boats who are closer to any width restriction than you on things like narrow bridges. Downstream has the right of way on rivers, you stick to the right and pass left side to left side unless maneuvering - but common sense applies in terms of more maneuverable boats giving way to less maneuverable ones - you wouldn't blithely plough on in a moderately sized powered boat on a river if confronted by anything bigger than a dinghy under sail on the "wrong" side of the river heading upstream tacking into the wind, you apply some courtesy as it is much easier for you to alter speed or heading to avoid them. Most river and canal users are very courteous and polite.
It seems there’s a lot more boats on the canals nowadays, I live in Bow with Limehouse Cut around the corner, there’s some new pontoon moorings along there now, It’s a lot busier, which I suppose is a good thing. I also work near Walthamstow just off the A406 near Cooks-ferry roundabout where you have the River Lee Navigation, lots of boats along there too. It’s not the prettiest of places so I guess the mooring fees must be cheaper or none at all, not sure how that bit works.
Looks brilliant. I would be nervous about safety mooring in such areas. Are burglaries a problem for moored boats? Do you get problems at night when stopping next to a tow path?
I suppose at 2am when you and your mates are blind drunk , it might seem like a good idea to weld your volkswagen to your boat , otherwise , absolutely barmy , but we're glad somebody did .
those punks with the car just use it for storage. insane. i'd help them clear it out. whatever. glad you enjoyed the time, slowcoaches ;o) agreed: uxbridge > watford
To have a trip average speed over the whole 205 miles of 1.5 mph ; the boat would have to cover the remaining 11 miles at an average speed of 16.6 mph . So the average will probably be close to 1.42 mph , but still a creditable performance given all the distractions along the route .
From here in California, it is actually a pleasure to listen to this couple communicate lucidly, emote with enthusiasm, and converse with spontaneity. Here at home, we have a paralyzed and digitized collective well known for grunts and squeals.
Really!
Thought Americans had lot to say!
@@irenedavo3768 We do! Just that 90% of us are too retarded to communicate effectively...lol
A VW narrowboat,what a concept 😎. Would like the story behind that. Another fine cruise safe week. Cheers.
Tax status: Sorn, MOT: Expired 23rd November 2012. A creative idea for further use.👍
Congrats on your 2 year anniversary! I remember Sam saying that she was going to paint Mary L, come Sam don't let us down i know how creative you can be!
great ride, thank you, and yes I loved the wooden boat with stained glass windows
OK That was fun!! Thanks for letting me tag along.😁😎
Have to watch this again- there’s so much to see!! So many boats, can’t wait to see you reach London❣️ love that little cottage too- thanks Sam and Tim🥰
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Another great video! Sam, I like the yellow boats too, perhaps Mary L could have a yellow makeover?
This is one of the most chill narrowboat videos I’ve watched in a long time. Perhaps it’s the constant drone of the engine, or maybe it’s your peaceful demeanor. Either way, it was quite enjoyable.
Hi Sam, Tim, Lovely Vlog again. Great cruising. Some very interesting boats on the canal. Yellow is interesting: I think it's a ladies thing. A lovely lady I knew 40 years ago, she loved yellow Minis (cars). The water looked nice and clean for a change. I'm always interested in your stats. With few locks in the next 11 miles, its anyone's' game. My bet is on you guys making the forecast mph average. Have a great week.Take Care
Hi Tim and Sam, lovey cruise. I always enjoy looking at the different boats and the names. Narrow boaters are very creative. Tim the wooden boat was beautiful, would love a tour inside and the story behind her. Thank you for sharing.
Do not think they are reading comments!
Hello from the USA, really enjoy the scenery. Great videos
Cracking video.
Loved the trippy pattern from the reflection of the water under the bridge.
Great video. Beautifully crafted. Very much enjoyed this and looking forward to the next one. Thanks for sharing.
Everybody Sing!
We all live on a yellow Narrowboat, a yellow Narrowboat, a Yellow Narrowboat
Thanks for the video…I’m always enjoying your content…stay safe and take care !!
Hi Tim and Sam we have missed you, I think we must have been in Denham marina when you past. We are in Tring now for a few days.
Richard & Jean
Thanks
HA-HA, YOU DIDN'T SEE MY NEW SUBMARINE/WIDEBEAM LURKING JUST BEHIND YOU!
VERY GOOD VIDEO - BE INTERESTING TO SEE SAM'S SISTERS NEXT TIME...
(ARE YOU GOING TO MOUNT YOUR MECEDES LIMO ON YOUR STERN ONE DAY???)
KEEP CHUGGING!
Weird, wacky and wonderful boats 🛶
Also loved the thatched cottage 🏡
And the wooden boat 🤎
Uxbridge looks & sounds posh 😊
Keeeeeep chugging 😘
Los Angeles here. This looks like a fantastic life to be living. I’m envious! Beautiful boat you’ve created. - By the way, I enjoy ambient sound recordings of different kinds, water sounds great in stereo, and this one video travels through so many environments, it makes me want to hook it up to a stereo system and really listen to the sounds.
Please watch the Camp Beagle
I've just finished this same stretch, am now in Little Venice, maybe i'll spot you around!
Hi Sam and Tim, another great vlog as always. Just one thing, could you please keep the captions up a little longer.
Liked the boat dry dock . Genius idea
Great Video, absolutely amazing little white cottage in the start of the Video. So fun watching this one, people are creative and someone likes VW 's. Safe Crusing and "Keep On Chugging. " 😃👋
I watch quite a few cruising in the cut channels and this paint job is by far the best!!!
Great episode xx
Congratulations on your 2nd boativersary 🥂🎉. Great vlog as always! Always love seeing all the different boats on the canals - that's what makes life interesting! Xxx
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The scenery was absolutely gorgeous
I was looking hard to see the barge Slow Patrol and fellow Utuber The boat that James built but alass l didn't spot it 😎😎😎
Awww! You two are so sweet! Yeah, you got me, I subscribed…!!!
p.s. Live in Alperton, not far from the Grand Union Canal, used to watch the boats go by. Intriguing way of life I’ve always fantasised about. I’m hooked….!!!
Some of those canalside houses looked nice, bet they're worth a few bob though. The car on stern is certainly novel! 🙂
Great video thanks for sharing 👍.
The Tesco''s you passed should have a canal boat drive through :)
Very enjoyable. Thanks
... Great video 😁 . I built a Ship with a Land rover wheel house , mini clubman front cabin and a caravan section in the middle . Also had jaguar jet droptanks as variable geometry outriggers . Lived aboard for over 15 years 😉...
Awesome boats
There are some great boats out there love the vlog take care
Once again, thanks for the trips out about town. (from the US).
It's good to hear that you guys will still be Chugging next year. Any hint on a route yet? Thanks
Please watch the Camp Beagle
Great Vlog Guys, looking forward to the finale 👏🏻👏🏻 keeeeeep on Chugging. 👍🏼😎
Watford, Chorley and Rickmansworth didn't look like London because they're not. They're all outside the Greater London boundary. Near Rickmansworth you had the London Borough of Harrow on the left bank of the canal and Hertforshire on the right for a bit, then you had Hertfordshire on both banks until a few miles after Rickmansworth, when you crossed the Greater London boundary, but into Hillingdon, not Harrow.
People think the M25 is the London boundary. In some places it is, in others it's pretty close, but there are a few bits of London beyond the M25 and some quite big chunks of not-London are still inside the ring of the M25. You were cruising one of those slabs of not-London for quite a while.
Please watch Afrimax English
Lovely sail into London. I liked the little cottage too, I noticed it was for sale. Did you look up the price?
Yes I wondered on the price too.
Enjoyable video guys, thanks. We discovered when doing family history research some years ago that my Great-great Grandfather drowned in the Grand Union Canal at Rickmansworth in 1891. He was a retired police sergeant and the inquest recorded an open verdict, so did he fall in, did he jump in, or was he pushed in? Nobody will ever know!
Wow!
Have you found out any more?
Just found your channel, this is the first video I viewed. Very enjoyable watch and some amazing boats. Happy boating!
Nice video - I love the canal and have not yet seen the part which goes into London yet - thanks .... BTW I recognise the fella in the boat ... maybe at a rave :-)
Watford is where I live, if I had known you were passing through I would have said go to D20 in Queens Road it's a board game cafe, you could have introduced them to Argy Bargy!
Have you seen ‘the trotters’ yellow car on the back of an nb? Its there somewhere. Good vlog guys.
It’s on the Peak Forest Canal, hopefully they will visit there as it is a beautiful stretch of canal and Bugsworth Basin has to be visited :-)
That first one. For many years there was a boat on the River Leven in Dumbarton with a Morris Minor traveller "cabin" similarly grafted on, and a few miles away near Clynder a small coaster with a Scammell truck cab (the old corrugated iron looking one) as the wheelhouse! ;-)
Ah very interesting, sounds cool. Thank you Davie. Keep chugging
I bet some of those "abandoned" boats aren't really. I know someone who lived on a boat which looked abandoned, and wasn't navigable, but was their home for at least 3 years. There's lots of stuff the CRT either can't control, or doesn't try to, in certain places in and near London. Yet in other parts they're heavily on the case.
Wow!
We all live in a yellow narrow boat...a yellow narrow boat.... a yellow narrowboat... sing it! We all...
The very first boat looks like something one wouldn't be surprised to see Captain Jack Sparrow standing at the helm! When passing an opposite traveling boat, who has the right of way? Logic would suggest to me, the boat going down-stream would have it.
No upstream/downstream on canals - you stick to the right and give way to boats who are closer to any width restriction than you on things like narrow bridges.
Downstream has the right of way on rivers, you stick to the right and pass left side to left side unless maneuvering - but common sense applies in terms of more maneuverable boats giving way to less maneuverable ones - you wouldn't blithely plough on in a moderately sized powered boat on a river if confronted by anything bigger than a dinghy under sail on the "wrong" side of the river heading upstream tacking into the wind, you apply some courtesy as it is much easier for you to alter speed or heading to avoid them. Most river and canal users are very courteous and polite.
@@robw7676 Thank you!
If you get chance, come down to the River Adur at Shoreham By Sea, i'll buy you lunch.
There are houseboats made up with all sorts of contraptions.
I remember seeing these boats last year!
Well that was a interesting car/boat 🤔
It seems there’s a lot more boats on the canals nowadays, I live in Bow with Limehouse Cut around the corner, there’s some new pontoon moorings along there now, It’s a lot busier, which I suppose is a good thing. I also work near Walthamstow just off the A406 near Cooks-ferry roundabout where you have the River Lee Navigation, lots of boats along there too. It’s not the prettiest of places so I guess the mooring fees must be cheaper or none at all, not sure how that bit works.
that looks like some testy navigation with not much room for error. Hard to believe so many abandon boats just sitting there.
Saw this boat in Hemel... did think Whisky Tango Foxtrot
Great vlog and really interesting one too. Are u going on the Thames once in London ? Best wishes
Looks brilliant. I would be nervous about safety mooring in such areas. Are burglaries a problem for moored boats? Do you get problems at night when stopping next to a tow path?
It’s so sad to see the abandonment of so many boats on the waterways there
I suppose at 2am when you and your mates are blind drunk , it might seem like a good idea to weld your volkswagen to your boat , otherwise , absolutely barmy , but we're glad somebody did .
That made me laugh “Chugging” down the river . That’s cool I say cruise but Chug seem to fit better.
Love the VW what mpg does it return does it still require tax insurance and mot lol.
How quick will a narrow boat go if you rev it up?
Is it just me or do others think Sam and Tim's vlogs always look slightly jerky?
Like the frame rate is slightly off
those punks with the car just use it for storage. insane. i'd help them clear it out. whatever. glad you enjoyed the time, slowcoaches ;o)
agreed: uxbridge > watford
Like the videos but get dizzy from the camera movement and camera frame rate lag in a lot of the video.
Love your videos but I wonder why you don’t film more of yourselves live rather than adding the comments after?
Please: how meter deep canals?
To have a trip average speed over the whole 205 miles of 1.5 mph ; the boat would have to cover the remaining 11 miles at an average speed of 16.6 mph . So the average will probably be close to 1.42 mph , but still a creditable performance given all the distractions along the route .
That Uxbridge doesn't look anything like the town (of the same name)we live in here in Ontario Canada. Lol
Ah interesting! We didn't know there is one in Canada :)
Tye dye windows 🪟 🤣
Looks sorta cool, but it's travel is limited because of that. It'll never make it under low tunnels.
It's not a touran! It's A Sharran (Sharon)!
Все эти людишки, в прямом смысле, гадят в этот канал. Британцы всегда были терпимы к вони.
Surely putting something like that on your narrow boat will restrict where you can travel.
You didn't go past Jack's Lock, you went past Black Jack's Lock, a most unpleasant character from Harefield's past Great restaurant now fotunately.
Controlling such a long boat on a stick rudder is no easy task, only the most experienced could manoeuvre it on such a narrow canal
You always stay dry while steering in a car😀
I'm surprised you didn't mention the sewage smell around those rusted boats. Wore a mask cruising through there, was really too much.
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Eeeee blaci
Started to watch then music spoilt it for me
tie dye windows!?? ya dummy!
KURBAGLIDERE JOINT TO METRO statıon
Hi Sam and Tim, another great vlog as always. Just one thing, could you please keep the captions up a little longer.