for me, BEST VIDEO in the first forty-nine - what a great combination of technical (locks), life-on-the-canal, and pretty montages of the lovely spring-summer weather with ducks and ramblers and dogs! Perfect!
Many thanks, keep them coming, great to watch. Any chance of some more of your daily and evening life on board the boat. Cooking, cleaning, reading, watching the telly as light fades outside and your interior lights come on, drawing the curtains, preparing for bed , then getting up making breakfast, preparing for the days cruising etc.Its the small things of unusual lives that can be fascinating I think.
Great series of 'blogs'....much appreciated! I'm a middle aged bloke about 1-2 years away from returning to the cut and this series is brilliant! Thanks David....keep them coming!
It was nice to hear from you again and to enjoy the scenery montage portions of the vlog. Thanks for sharing. And thanks for the dry humor, showing the little café where two staff ignored you. Good stuff, that. You seem to be enjoying your life, as I would hope you would, and making the most of it. Locks like fun.
I'm sure there are wrinkles and drawbacks, but what a lovely life (at about 2 1/2 miles an hour!) I seriously considered selling up and moving to a life on the canal when I retired, but being in my sixties and NOT fleet of foot I decided that locking on my own would be a no-no. Anyway another excellent and most enjoyable vlog. Can't wait for the next !
I used to work in a industrial unit backing onto the canal. I IRC the pub in the distance in one of your last shots is the Black Horse or as we used to call it, the Dirty Donkey
What a great vlog! Such an appealing way of life, and you present it so well. I enjoy your dry sense of humor, too. I look forward to vicariously traveling with you on many more occasions.
It always amazes me how you can have multiple camera recording for hours per day, and _somehow_ you manage to get a clean and precise -10 minute video out of all of that. Whereas amateurish me records with one [web]camera, and keeps almost all the footage in the final edit except for small things like clearing my throat, false starts, and staring at a detail on something. I'm jealous of your editing skill in this matter.
I've never measured it in hours per finished minute but a typical vlog takes me about 8-10 hours to create (excluding filming) so yes, I suppose you're about right!
Well done with negotiating the Hatton Flight. At least you had a partner to assist. I like the spur at Budbrook Industrial Estate, Stopped there too. A wonderful film today - love the montage! Thank you again for a lovely day
Another great Vlog, such a relaxed way of life, even it you do have the pain of the locks, but well worth it I'm sure, really like the views of the country side and the old homes etc., being from the US of A it's a view into a different world, keep up the good work and looking for the next one, Cheers
Hi there. I am enjoying your videos very much. The short, concise commentary says it all, no flowery garbage, just what the doctor ordered. Here in Canada we don't have canals like Britain, our waterways are wide and join lakes where the water can get quite rough, does not bode well for flat bottom boats. The scenery in England is so tranquil and pretty and the pubs, ahh, for the next pint. I was originally from Somerset. We have a saying here the a boat is a hole in the water you pour money into. Fair analogy I think given your expenses. Keep them coming mate, they are great.
I absolutely love this vlog and the information is very useful. However, I will confess to watching them primarily for the scenery montages. There is some staggeringly beautiful countryside along your canals.
For some reason, we are intensely fascinated by all of these wonderful little do-it-yourself locks. We traversed 17 locks on a river cruise in Russia several years ago, with some drops as much as 50 feet! We're sure those locks are not self-service though! If you have a video that we've so far missed, where you show in more detail exactly what the entire process is like of operating a lock from entry to exit, please do let us know. Thanks David!
I did do one, not very good in hindsight, but can't remember the vlog number offhand and am about to run out of mobile data (dammit!) so will post later!!
I came across your videos and am rather enjoying them. I've made it through 49. After so many the music is becoming rather dull though. Just the other night I fell asleep during a montage, ha. Thank you for your efforts! Cheers
I do love your videos. Indeed done the first 49 in 2 days!! I’d like to add, a cheese sandwich, always tastes better when cut as a triangle in my opinion. Please try. Keep up the great work and lifestyle
Looking forward to perhaps sharing a lock or two with you one day! Through watching your videos its inspired me one day soon moving to the water, thank you for inspiring my adventurous spirit!
I've gone back to watch a few vids and listen to the hauntingly beautiful theme music. As a guitarist, I've been noodling around trying to play it. My poor wife has sighed more than once as I butchered the tempo. Ah, retirement.
As usual, a great vlog! I'm looking at them in a new light as we've just bought a narrowboat and intend to give continuous cruising a go starting in the spring of next year. These are now compulsory education vlogs! Keep up the good work.
I am thinking of Hyacinth Bucket and her finger buffet with riparian entertainments and the extreme struggle with the locks. Great videos, thank you for sharing your amazing life with us.
It was only missing tomato which is they other key ingredient but I didn't put it in earlier in case the sarnie went soggy. Nothing as disappointing as soggy bread!
Ah thanks for the reply. Yeah didn't think you had been 'out there' from following your vlogs........have to do it at some point as it's the only way from here to the canal system! unless we are piloted around the other way to the Avon.......no thank you at this stage! We're trapped ha ha!!,! Do have someone to come with me but not experienced either but two better than one on the river I'd say! Happy Cruising! Hope you're not getting too wet in this lovely British weather!
Such a lovely stretch of canal. I did notice at 5:01 and on a few other locks on the stretch, there's a smaller canal to the side of the lock. I wonder what these are. "Eat, Drink, Allday" looked rather tempting, by the way!
Another great Vlog :) Now you've been on the cut for a while, how about one on how its been, how you've adjusted from land to water, what has been better than expected or a bit of a let down, how you've been getting on with the internet usage as im sure you watch other youtube channels etc.. and whats its like to live/stay in the middle of nowhere in what must feel like a black hole at night :D
Do you sit with your evening tea and think up these pithy, punny titles? Love them! I find myself looking forward to the next video partly for that reason. lol ;)
Lovely video once again......am I right in thinking, you might have lost a little weight? All the work, opening & closing the lock gates, keeps you very busy!
im very much enjoying my choice to start on your videos during my narrowboat youtuber binge, by popular demand from most of narrowboat twitter. very well executed and this is fpur years ago - the newer ones will surely be even more so. by the way, i'm sorry for the bad experience you had at hatton's cafe, i promise theyr'e not normally like that!! i enjoy a visit there from time to time.
@@CruisingTheCut it's nice to come along, currently watching you cruise through Stoke-on-Trent in 2017. really enjoying it so far! thank you for your hard work. :)
Hey David, I mentioned in another comment (on a different vlog) that I'm hoping to get my own narrow boat here in Ireland next year...have to say, the thoughts of going through locks (I'll be by myself) is freaking me out!!! I get so bloody anxious just watching you go through them :p That being said, Ireland isn't very liveaboard friendly (seemingly they're trying to outlaw it) and locks aren't made for lone boaters (many of them don't have ladders, so it would definitely be a 2 person job). Not letting that put me off 'though....as they say (whoever 'they' are) were there's a will there's a way! ;)
Thanks, I'm planning on doing a 1 day course closer to d day so that should help with the nerves! I believe a lot of locks are manned, although not all. I'm sure I'll be grand :)
Another great Vlog.......I'm trying to pluck up the courage to go past the lock at Gloucester Quays and venture out on to the River Severn but a little nervous.....any tips ??? I moor on the Glos & Sharpness Canal and just go from Sharpness to the Quays and back again.......quaint!
I'm probably the wrong person to ask, alas - I have yet to venture onto a river, preferring to get used to the canals first. I suppose my tips would be don't do it solo the first time, get someone else along to help. And, of course, make sure the river's not in flood or likely to be. Take a charged mobile phone and have a life jacket on maybe. Good luck!
They have a fair few dotted around the network but they are also closing quite a few and amalgamating them for example the one at Fazeley has now shut.
I'm not sure what you're requesting but if you mean just shots of moving, see this playlist of mine (from later videos): th-cam.com/video/-S2kKQaDnV8/w-d-xo.html
Why don't you try Vuollerim? Some 140 km uppstream the Luleälv in Sweden. The curren aroun 5 knt. No locks! But you have to carry your narrow five times! The lowest lift some 5 m the highest approx 30 m. I'll have a cup of tea for you when you arrive! By the way. I like your vlog!
As always it's great to see the canals and countryside looking lovely. The drips on the solar panels made me wonder how they are performing. Do you have one of the controllers that allows you to see their contribution in relation to what you get from running the engine?
You should send the CRT a letter typed in teen tiny font. As for trying to read them from the boat, you could take a photo with your phone and then pull it up and zoom in to read 😳
Re; The wide brimmed hat look - a bit like a pretty young Dame Edna Everage Me-thinks ;-) Plus! ... I think everyone who manages to navigate that set of locks should get some sort of medal at the end ... if only the CDM ;-)
Okay - I've - read the FAQ'S - will stop skipping adds. And here is me always wondering why anyone would binge watch tv series - 48 down hundreds to go.
Sir Ed was a kiwi and so am I, (7 min 40 sec or so) and when he got down from Everest he proclaimed... "We knocked the bugger off." Did you do the same with that lock or did you just bump into it? Love the series, especially your early stuff. Nice attitude to a new way of life.
Been following you for a while now. Definitely decided to purchase a good livable narrowboat and cruise the entire waterways of England. Do you think I should video the life I am going to live?
Hi, I only top up the tank every few months and there's no actual shortage of fuel as such, just of truck drivers. While marinas do get supplied by tanker, I think they'd be so infrequent as not to be an issue, it's not like a petrol station where they need daily refills.
You have got to watch " horse boating in stone TH-cam vid around the 4 minute mark pay close attention to the entering the lock I do think you will find it quite interesting Cheers I hope it helps you in the future Jim
The Saltisford Arm is no less safe than a house. Plenty of people around to spot ne'er-do-wells. A lot of CCers have a lot of padlocks on their boats :-)
Even your most high tech and modern tunnels have problems with seepage, but when your talking about brick lines with several meters of rain saturated soil above your head, seepage is unavoidable
Scenery montages and all the rest EXCELLENT. Commentary PRICELESS
:-)
"Where the two staff members ignored me......" Love it! Like your style, Capper-tain!
Thank you
Just as i think the vids cant get any better, they do, keep up the excellent work.
Haha and in this video it was literally all downhill from the start ;-)
Now that I have caught with all your posts, I now eagerly await every new post. Really enjoy them. You are one of my favorite mini series..👍 👍
Thank you.
Just finished Your Vlog of You living The Dream, now to set My alarm for 3.50am for the Rat Race of The Week ahead,,,,,
Brilliant Vlog, as always.
for me, BEST VIDEO in the first forty-nine - what a great combination of technical (locks), life-on-the-canal, and pretty montages of the lovely spring-summer weather with ducks and ramblers and dogs! Perfect!
Many thanks, keep them coming, great to watch. Any chance of some more of your daily and evening life on board the boat. Cooking, cleaning, reading, watching the telly as light fades outside and your interior lights come on, drawing the curtains, preparing for bed , then getting up making breakfast, preparing for the days cruising etc.Its the small things of unusual lives that can be fascinating I think.
Maybe. I don't really cook and can't imagine me reading is interesting but maybe a "day in the life" video sometime...
Great series of 'blogs'....much appreciated! I'm a middle aged bloke about 1-2 years away from returning to the cut and this series is brilliant! Thanks David....keep them coming!
Thanks Andy
The scenery is just great...complete with animals, birds and plants.
You must just love it.
Yes, when the sun's out!
It's all a mater of perspective.
Living here as I do in the high mountain desert southwest a rainy day is a beautiful day.
I always enjoy the obligatory montages.
It was nice to hear from you again and to enjoy the scenery montage portions of the vlog. Thanks for sharing. And thanks for the dry humor, showing the little café where two staff ignored you. Good stuff, that. You seem to be enjoying your life, as I would hope you would, and making the most of it. Locks like fun.
Haha! It is.
Loving these videos. Don't under-estimate those montages. They are magic and complete the videos. Keep it up.
Cheers
Return of the Lockmaster :-) *Two Thumbs Up*
:-)
Awesome video in that Tunnel with the light reflecting off the Brick Ceiling...stunning
A surprisingly nice tunnel! But very damp.
I'm sure there are wrinkles and drawbacks, but what a lovely life (at about 2 1/2 miles an hour!)
I seriously considered selling up and moving to a life on the canal when I retired, but being in my
sixties and NOT fleet of foot I decided that locking on my own would be a no-no.
Anyway another excellent and most enjoyable vlog. Can't wait for the next !
Sometimes as high as 3 mph!
Boy racer !
Hello David! Always a joy to see a new vlog on your travels! May the wind always be at your back! Cheers!
Hanks Ken
I used to work in a industrial unit backing onto the canal. I IRC the pub in the distance in one of your last shots is the Black Horse or as we used to call it, the Dirty Donkey
Classic as usual, beautiful video and commentary, brightened up my day following the depressing few days events.
Good to hear the videos are just the tonic! Ideally with gin.
Delightful, as always. Thank you. What a pretty stretch of scenery.
It was gorgeous!
What a great vlog! Such an appealing way of life, and you present it so well. I enjoy your dry sense of humor, too. I look forward to vicariously traveling with you on many more occasions.
Thanks Ron!
HAHA a few extra minutes video,very good thank you . Really do enjoy them.
More accident than design, probably back to normal next time ;-)
It always amazes me how you can have multiple camera recording for hours per day, and _somehow_ you manage to get a clean and precise -10 minute video out of all of that. Whereas amateurish me records with one [web]camera, and keeps almost all the footage in the final edit except for small things like clearing my throat, false starts, and staring at a detail on something.
I'm jealous of your editing skill in this matter.
Hahaha thanks
I'll bet @CruisingTheCut spends an hour or more for each minute of finished video. (Am I close?)
I've never measured it in hours per finished minute but a typical vlog takes me about 8-10 hours to create (excluding filming) so yes, I suppose you're about right!
It looks like you have a fantastic time in your narrowboat on the cut, l envy your life just doing what you like ,going everywhere,awesome.
David as I watch you I think this would be the life!! it so relaxing n so pretty!! ty for doing what you do!!!
I appreciate your keeping the fresh water full, and empty the know what.
Hilary atop Everest! Great to have a laugh out loud moment in troubled times! Thank you.
Well done with negotiating the Hatton Flight. At least you had a partner to assist. I like the spur at Budbrook Industrial Estate, Stopped there too. A wonderful film today - love the montage! Thank you again for a lovely day
Enjoyed your video.... as always. :-)
I look forward to these blogs. They provide a bit of sanity in todays world
Glad to be of service ;-)
Another great Vlog, such a relaxed way of life, even it you do have the pain of the locks, but well worth it I'm sure, really like the views of the country side and the old homes etc., being from the US of A it's a view into a different world, keep up the good work and looking for the next one, Cheers
Thanks John
8:25
That supermarket 5 minutes away is built on the canal, which used to extend further into Warwick by 400m or so.
Yes sir yes sir three longboats full!
Hi there. I am enjoying your videos very much. The short, concise commentary says it all, no flowery garbage, just what the doctor ordered. Here in Canada we don't have canals like Britain, our waterways are wide and join lakes where the water can get quite rough, does not bode well for flat bottom boats. The scenery in England is so tranquil and pretty and the pubs, ahh, for the next pint. I was originally from Somerset. We have a saying here the a boat is a hole in the water you pour money into. Fair analogy I think given your expenses. Keep them coming mate, they are great.
Thank you. Yes, I can certainly relate to the bottomless pit of money... :-)
What fun! Keep it up
I absolutely love this vlog and the information is very useful. However, I will confess to watching them primarily for the scenery montages. There is some staggeringly beautiful countryside along your canals.
Then you're going to love the "bonus" scenery video I'll be publishing in a few days... :-)
I'm certain I will. I'll be looking forward to it. Thank you
great scenery!
No matter,I'm going to enjoy them none the less.
For some reason, we are intensely fascinated by all of these wonderful little do-it-yourself locks. We traversed 17 locks on a river cruise in Russia several years ago, with some drops as much as 50 feet! We're sure those locks are not self-service though! If you have a video that we've so far missed, where you show in more detail exactly what the entire process is like of operating a lock from entry to exit, please do let us know. Thanks David!
I did do one, not very good in hindsight, but can't remember the vlog number offhand and am about to run out of mobile data (dammit!) so will post later!!
Got it - th-cam.com/video/nEtIixsrBxw/w-d-xo.html
I came across your videos and am rather enjoying them. I've made it through 49. After so many the music is becoming rather dull though. Just the other night I fell asleep during a montage, ha. Thank you for your efforts! Cheers
so relaxing that even the lock where easy for me !!!!!! LOL !!!!
:-)
I do love your videos. Indeed done the first 49 in 2 days!! I’d like to add, a cheese sandwich, always tastes better when cut as a triangle in my opinion. Please try. Keep up the great work and lifestyle
Just love your vlogs we can't wait to live the same slow paced life do you have to do daily engine check if so please could you film them thank you
I check the oil level before I set off and give the stern gland a twist of grease but that's about it.
i am michael from trinidad/west indies & i enjoy your videos, its a great way of life.
Thank you Michael, cheers :-)
Loved it thank you.
truly enjoyed this one
:-)
Lovely farm land views
Loving your vlogs. You have inspired me to try a narrowboat hire next time I am in the UK. Looks like a very relaxing way to see the countryside.
This was delightful...to watch.
Wishing you well on your journey.
Looking forward to perhaps sharing a lock or two with you one day! Through watching your videos its inspired me one day soon moving to the water, thank you for inspiring my adventurous spirit!
I've gone back to watch a few vids and listen to the hauntingly beautiful theme music. As a guitarist, I've been noodling around trying to play it. My poor wife has sighed more than once as I butchered the tempo. Ah, retirement.
If you go into TH-cam's creator section, you can download the entire track from the YT music library. Cheers
As usual, a great vlog! I'm looking at them in a new light as we've just bought a narrowboat and intend to give continuous cruising a go starting in the spring of next year. These are now compulsory education vlogs! Keep up the good work.
Wow, fantastic. Congratulations!
I am thinking of Hyacinth Bucket and her finger buffet with riparian entertainments and the extreme struggle with the locks. Great videos, thank you for sharing your amazing life with us.
Thanks for watching!
scrummy looking sarnie, going to make myself one now !!!! lovely vlog as usual,,,keep 'em coming !
It was only missing tomato which is they other key ingredient but I didn't put it in earlier in case the sarnie went soggy. Nothing as disappointing as soggy bread!
+CruisingTheCut What is a sarnie?
Abbreviated form of "sandwich"
+CruisingTheCut Ah, ok, I'm onboard now. It's too bad we don't have an abbreviated form of the word "sandwich" - we'd save so much time! :)
It's that tricky "dw" changeover in the middle that slows things down ;-)
Ah thanks for the reply. Yeah didn't think you had been 'out there' from following your vlogs........have to do it at some point as it's the only way from here to the canal system! unless we are piloted around the other way to the Avon.......no thank you at this stage! We're trapped ha ha!!,!
Do have someone to come with me but not experienced either but two better than one on the river I'd say! Happy Cruising! Hope you're not getting too wet in this lovely British weather!
Soaked!
Your videos are so relaxing seems to he quite the life, cheers from america, your commentary and descriptions are classics
Another great Vlog keep up the good work!!
Yes not a bad spot Saltisford Arm, stopped off there on the way to Kate boats just down the cut. We too were ignored at that cafe.
Glad it wasn't just me!
love your videos mate I'm getting my own canalboat soon
Excellent, hope you have a great time aboard.
Such a lovely stretch of canal. I did notice at 5:01 and on a few other locks on the stretch, there's a smaller canal to the side of the lock. I wonder what these are. "Eat, Drink, Allday" looked rather tempting, by the way!
They're overflow/flood channels.
@@petesmith7796 I believe that new wider locks were built in the 1940's and the overflow channels are the remains of the old narrow locks.
Beautiful! Joe from Ottawa, Canada
:-)
good video as usual many thanks, errrr double mooring.
that's a new one I don't fancy.
I had one next to me for a day. Actually made me queasy, all the wobbling as next door kept getting on and off via my stern! It was non-stop :-(
I hope they took their muddy boots off, that would get on my nerves.
Ps : takes a sea sickness pill next time your doubled up. Haha
Luckily they moved on a day later. One one point the bloke started polishing his boat using mine to stand on (and rock) as he did!!
"The Dog and Windlass" would make a fun pub name.
"The Dog and Windlass" - good name for a pub.
Good video
The Flying Reporter sent me here, brilliant videos! Subbed.
He's a good chap! Cheers
Its being installed on the 21st of this month baby.!!Have to walk down the cut though to see boats and imagine
Fantastic! Take care. Get a CO alarm (seriously)
I much prefer listening to you talk, your humor and quick wit are so much more enjoyable than the, "Obligatory scenery montage."
Another great Vlog :) Now you've been on the cut for a while, how about one on how its been, how you've adjusted from land to water, what has been better than expected or a bit of a let down, how you've been getting on with the internet usage as im sure you watch other youtube channels etc.. and whats its like to live/stay in the middle of nowhere in what must feel like a black hole at night :D
Maybe; I'll put it on the "to do" list!
6:43 Hehe that's definitely not an octopus... It's a very cute marijuana leaf :) Another absolutely stellar vlog, I'm slowly catching up to you!
Lol
Do you sit with your evening tea and think up these pithy, punny titles? Love them!
I find myself looking forward to the next video partly for that reason. lol ;)
Indeed I do!
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full 😎
Lovely video once again......am I right in thinking, you might have lost a little weight? All the work, opening & closing the lock gates, keeps you very busy!
I don't think so but I don't keep any track of it. The people in the other boat did most of the work!
Great video :)
Those old working boats should be in a museum
im very much enjoying my choice to start on your videos during my narrowboat youtuber binge, by popular demand from most of narrowboat twitter. very well executed and this is fpur years ago - the newer ones will surely be even more so. by the way, i'm sorry for the bad experience you had at hatton's cafe, i promise theyr'e not normally like that!! i enjoy a visit there from time to time.
Haha hello Emily, I saw a few tweets directing you here, nice to have you along :-)
@@CruisingTheCut it's nice to come along, currently watching you cruise through Stoke-on-Trent in 2017. really enjoying it so far! thank you for your hard work. :)
Hey David, I mentioned in another comment (on a different vlog) that I'm hoping to get my own narrow boat here in Ireland next year...have to say, the thoughts of going through locks (I'll be by myself) is freaking me out!!! I get so bloody anxious just watching you go through them :p That being said, Ireland isn't very liveaboard friendly (seemingly they're trying to outlaw it) and locks aren't made for lone boaters (many of them don't have ladders, so it would definitely be a 2 person job). Not letting that put me off 'though....as they say (whoever 'they' are) were there's a will there's a way! ;)
Locks are fine (over here) single handed, you just need to take your time. I thought the ones in Ireland were staffed though?
Thanks, I'm planning on doing a 1 day course closer to d day so that should help with the nerves! I believe a lot of locks are manned, although not all. I'm sure I'll be grand :)
@@inoodleberry1 I live in Fermanagh. How's your boating experience so far? It's something I'd be interested in.
Another great Vlog.......I'm trying to pluck up the courage to go past the lock at Gloucester Quays and venture out on to the River Severn but a little nervous.....any tips ??? I moor on the Glos & Sharpness Canal and just go from Sharpness to the Quays and back again.......quaint!
I'm probably the wrong person to ask, alas - I have yet to venture onto a river, preferring to get used to the canals first. I suppose my tips would be don't do it solo the first time, get someone else along to help. And, of course, make sure the river's not in flood or likely to be. Take a charged mobile phone and have a life jacket on maybe. Good luck!
The CRT must have a lot of offices!
They have a fair few dotted around the network but they are also closing quite a few and amalgamating them for example the one at Fazeley has now shut.
now that's what I call an efficient food processor, not sure I can beat that, not that I'd even try :-D
:-)
Please make a calm quite float , so we can use it to get ready to go to bed or nap. You do great shots, keep it up , Thanks
I'm not sure what you're requesting but if you mean just shots of moving, see this playlist of mine (from later videos): th-cam.com/video/-S2kKQaDnV8/w-d-xo.html
Why don't you try Vuollerim? Some 140 km uppstream the Luleälv in Sweden. The curren aroun 5 knt. No locks! But you have to carry your narrow five times! The lowest lift some 5 m the highest approx 30 m. I'll have a cup of tea for you when you arrive!
By the way. I like your vlog!
As always it's great to see the canals and countryside looking lovely. The drips on the solar panels made me wonder how they are performing. Do you have one of the controllers that allows you to see their contribution in relation to what you get from running the engine?
The charge controller displays what's going in etc. They''re doing very well, I've never had to run the engine to charge the batteries.
You should send the CRT a letter typed in teen tiny font.
As for trying to read them from the boat, you could take a photo with your phone and then pull it up and zoom in to read 😳
Hatton Locks done them twice quite a few years ago wore me out both times.
Re; The wide brimmed hat look - a bit like a pretty young Dame Edna Everage Me-thinks ;-)
Plus! ... I think everyone who manages to navigate that set of locks should get some sort of medal at the end ... if only the CDM ;-)
Sigh. I was going for Indiana Jones :-(
Okay - I've - read the FAQ'S - will stop skipping adds. And here is me always wondering why anyone would binge watch tv series - 48 down hundreds to go.
Love the music , sounds a bit like early Pink Floyd.
Yes. I can't agree with you more. Specifically More.
Stoned are we? (i am) lol
Sir Ed was a kiwi and so am I, (7 min 40 sec or so) and when he got down from Everest he proclaimed... "We knocked the bugger off." Did you do the same with that lock or did you just bump into it? Love the series, especially your early stuff. Nice attitude to a new way of life.
The boat that joined you at the top lock appears to have a dry stack exhaust! Not common on a narrowboat.
The old low revving engines have dry exhausts, the really old hot bulb engines make pretty impressive smoke rings sometimes.
Nice ! What is it with the two "ski" sticks that some walkers carry ? Are they expecting a difficult climb ? Weird..
Actually, the walk up Hatton locks is quite steep in places!
That was nice🤔🇬🇧Paul
Been following you for a while now. Definitely decided to purchase a good livable narrowboat and cruise the entire waterways of England. Do you think I should video the life I am going to live?
Good luck with you decision! Videoing is entirely up to you.
I totally understand, lottery wins keep missing me as well. But I keep trying, lol.
In the days when this flight of locks was build... not like building a cathedral but a bit the same. When it was al finished life changed.
another great vlog ,geesh 22 locks,how much of a drop total?
21 locks; according to Wikipedia, that totally reliable source, it's 45m drop / rise.
You could have soaped down the boat and got it rinsed going through this tunnel.🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
Hey David . Love the videos. Are you having problems getting diesel due to the shortages we heard about?
Hi, I only top up the tank every few months and there's no actual shortage of fuel as such, just of truck drivers. While marinas do get supplied by tanker, I think they'd be so infrequent as not to be an issue, it's not like a petrol station where they need daily refills.
You have got to watch " horse boating in stone TH-cam vid around the 4 minute mark pay close attention to the entering the lock
I do think you will find it quite interesting
Cheers I hope it helps you in the future
Jim
Do you think I need help? (Genuine question - what do you think is going wrong?)
Quite close to the road on the last place you stopped? How do CC'ers who are on their own feel safe leaving boats?
The Saltisford Arm is no less safe than a house. Plenty of people around to spot ne'er-do-wells. A lot of CCers have a lot of padlocks on their boats :-)
Something I've been meaning to ask; where does the water come from in the tunnels ? Do they go through a hill or is it seepage from the water table ?
I've truly no idea. That's one to ask the Canal & River Trust.
Even your most high tech and modern tunnels have problems with seepage, but when your talking about brick lines with several meters of rain saturated soil above your head, seepage is unavoidable