114. Narrowboat trip from Stratford to Wootten Wawen on the South Stratford canal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ต.ค. 2017
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On a glorious day in mid-June I departed from the canal basin at Stratford-upon-Avon and headed north up the South Stratford canal.
En route I ducked under low tunnels, breathed in for narrow bridges, held my breath on an aqueduct, saw some unusual wildlife and showed off my pasty white legs. All of those treats are included in the video.
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Hello. I am not English nor do I have a boat, and I will probably never leave my country, but if I watch your videos and listen to you, even if I do not understand you well, your relaxed way of speaking, and the beautiful landscapes, give me a lot of tranquility. ... Thank you. Greetings.
I've always had boats that I fished and played with on the large Texas lakes but I'm fascinated with these slow narrowboats and the stories of the people who travel on them. Keep on making these vlogs.
I know! Me too! My son is a tankerman for an oil company out of Houston. He is going to be getting his Mariner pilot's license soon, I hope! I love the British shows anyway. I would love to see England where Downton Abbey and the Doc Martin is filmed! I love the crime shows, too!
Great vlog again and again , oh and your voice is just fine don't change a thing.
Thank you! (I wasn't going to!!)
Loved the "tired ducks" and "cranes". Serrously, my kind of humor.
I'm from belgian and we have inlandshipping as well, which is interesant but I've been to london a month ago and I've seen the narrowboats there and I love it, they have so much character, I LOVE your channel
Thank you! Hope you enjoyed London :-)
I've been subscribed for 2 years or so and this vlog popped up on TH-cam as a suggestion to watch, so I did, again. As much as I enjoy your current vlogs, this is a pleasant reminder of the past, especially as covid restrictions are almost over.
That turtle looks like a red eared slider. I’m surprised there aren’t more. Love the blog. I watch when I want to relax.
Hello from MONTANA USA......Great adventure.......very interesting way to live and travel the area. Very enjoyable to watch and Thank you so much for sharing.
Hello back!
i am from the states n i had no idea there was such a big group of canal boaters thats so cool to me seeing all those locks we dont have many in the states so its really cool to see
"These are my first cranes" depicting construction cranes, I hope you're proud of yourself
I was, yes. Just wait til you see the title of my next video, coming tomorrow...
I laughed way to hard on that one !! Lol !
I came here because I just watched a video featuring you 'TV Journalist Quits His Job to Live on a Tiny House Boat & Cruise UK Canals Full-Time', and you mentioned making beer money off of your youtube channel, so I turned off my ad blocker and I am going to watch a few of your videos so I can help you get beer. I would love living on a boat like you do! It seems so peaceful! Thanks for the videos, and hello from New York!
Thank you for watching the ads!
Me too
You got a like for the tyre-d duck joke.
Cannot help Binge watching this. The narration is very well written. Besides, everything sounds sublime in a British accent :) Cruising the cut can easily pick up a commercial television contract.
As I watch my way through the series, I have come across another jewel. Although a Southern lady never swears in public, it is most certain these words occasionally flit through the mind. Moreover, this represents EXACTLY what goes through the mind of a lady when one “cocks” up a turn on a narrow drive. From all Southern ladies here in Texas, we salute you! Much ❤️ from our great State of Texas!
Hi I live in Australia and really enjoy your blogs
In 2009 my wife and I hired a narrow boat and went down the Oxford canal. We hire the boat from Black Prince canal boat.
We very much enjoyed our time on the canal and the well appointed boat. Keep your blogs coming
Hello, and greetings from the USA. Thanks for sharing the journey. I'm reading L. T. C. Rolt's "Narrow Boat", so I looked for some videos to help me learn a bit more about cruising on these canals. I was able to find part of the canal on Google Earth, and followed along some of the place names and aqueducts as you passed them. It may be the closest I ever get to this sort of trip.
Watching this in corona time lockdown.....So relaxing....
Two dodgy puns in one vlog - ooh David you do spoil us !! 😎😲😨
Lovely and enjoyable as always! So glad to have a new vlog! Tired ducks!!!!! LOL!!!
Good ;-)
Between the crane pun, the Dr. Hook song reference, and the aqueduct imagery, this is my favorite vlog entry so far - which is saying a lot! Thank you for posting your adventures.
Working my way back through the VLOGS. They are so relaxing, not that I am stressed being comfortably retired.
13:58 LOLOL you are hilarious, just binge watching! from Toronto!
"Hmm, let's listen. Dammit!" 🤣🤣🤣.
It's Lunch Time - so that means another journey with Cruising the Cut
"Tyred ducks"... ever the pun master :-)
I find what you're doing and where you're doing it absolutely fascinating. So beautiful and interesting! I live in America and I've never sean anything like it! Cheers
A Dr. Hook and a Noel Coward reference both in the same vlog! What excitement!
I'm not even sure I'd made a Coward reference, what was it??!!
CruisingTheCut “Mad dogs and Englishmen” is a song by Noel Coward
I didn't actually realise that was its origin (though I do recall the song, now you mention it). I just knew the phrase. I hang my head in the shame of ignorance.
As a 33 year old former us soldier and current hillbilly I have no idea why I find your videos so addicting. I just wanted to let you know how diverse an audience you have
Thank you!
Hey Joe, I am a cattle farmer from northwest Queensland in Australia.
I have never seen a body of water bigger than a dam or a boat. Like you, I love watching CruisingTheCut.
Maybe I will go on an English narrowboat holiday when I retire.
@@jacquesdemorton5871As diverse as the u.s. is we have nothing like this. I had no idea places like this existed. I dreamed of something like it as a kid. This definitely seems like something I could spend my life doing
No idea how I ended up on this video but it was a very interesting watch. Very clear and very interresting even for someone with no care for boating.
Thank you
Good job youtube. Always learnign somethign strange and new here.
brings back memories from when went from stratford upon avon up there to the grand union and down :)
:-)
Just beautiful. I hope to live in my own narrowboat for a few years in my late 20s, moored in Edinburgh. It seems like the best way to see most of England in a single holiday . I remember the Bicester canals from early childhood and would like to revisit
I find aqueducts fascinating. A bridge that carries a river/canal/etc....neat.
I love the aqueduct crossings! So neat to see your boat way up off the ground and passing over roads and R.R. tracks!
I chuckled at the Dr Hook reference! :)
Lord, I’m at 5:10 looking at the locks and how old they are and all the hardware on the locks that make them work and the locks themselves. How old they are. In my mind I can-picture dozens and dozens of men digging these locks out when they were new, Generations ago. If there’s one thing that I have a major passion in my heart for it is history, I absolutely love and adore history of just about any type
Those aqueducts were an amazing adventure! Thanks!
The cameraman gets an A+ the Aqua-ducts were fun to watch.
Your videos have provided me another reason to visit England...I'll need to add a few days to my trip and hire a boat!
I am an old blue water Captain. I do so like watching your videos over dinner to relax. so far I have not seen anything negative safety wise in the videos I have watched. Perhaps I will have to cross the pond and give the canals a go.
Love that music and sound of the engine. Very relaxing...
I have been watching UTube for years and your channel is the first one I have ever subscribed to. Brilliant stories and inspirational. Well done David.
Wow, thank you!
Very informative and relaxing videos.
I love your VLOGs. I'm a Yank who has lived in Hawai'i for 45 years now, but I spent the 1967-1968 school year in England before university. After my mates and I finished our A-levels, we contemplated renting a narrow boat and going on a pub crawl through the Norfolk Broads. Thank God we were too broke to do so. Your videos have shown me that if we had taken off on this adventure, we would have probably caused Bedlam and ended up in gaol as well. Still, I have been fascinated with England's canal system since I first arrived there in 1967 and was introduced to it by my grand-uncle. The aqueducts still blow my mind. How I wish I could afford the air fare to return to England and see this canal system once again.
Hahaha, you'd have had a great time :-) Glad you enjoy the videos. Cheers.
Watching the boat cruise thru the canal is so relaxing! And you do an amazing job of narrating of course. Lovely content. Thank you so much for sharing this!
What a lovely video, so relaxing.........
Beautiful scenery. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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This is quite beautiful! I wonder if a foreigner like me, can come to the UK, spend some time training and then rent a boat for a similar trip like this. Not as challenging maybe... :)
Not even any training needed, you can just turn up and hire one, amazingly enough!
great job of sharing your lifestyle. I first met canal boat folks in Leeds. Brilliant lifestyle. As to the question "why do this?" 1) you can travel huge expanses of the countryside. 2) no hotel 3) your house geos with you. You get to see a LOT, including cities. 14 days free moorage then move on. 4) No rent 5) independance 6) women find it increadibly romantic 7) some of the nicest people you could hope to meet.
Can one rent one of these "boats" to travel on the canals for a couple weeks? I'm in USA.
Absolutely; there are plenty of hire boat firms ready to take your money! Just google "UK narrowboat hire"
@@CruisingTheCut Thanks for the reply, just started watching your channel. Starting to watch the first episodes now. Great Idea on the episodes by the way.
Really fun to watch. It’s a mini- vacation. Lovely~ 👍💕🙏🏻
I did this stretch a couple of years ago (in the other direction) with my family and the in-laws. Great scenery and great memories.
Very enjoyable watching this video. It reminds me of the days when I used to cruise the Canals including the Stratford back when shared ownership was popular. Watching this was almost as relaxing as cruising used to be.
Cracking stuff! Enjoyable to watch, fun and interesting :)
The temperature dropped to 1C the other night. Watching this makes me realise how distant the summer feels.
I've got the stove fully fired up now and likely to stay on til Spring, I suspect!
Lovely to see the British countryside go by without having to be on a motorway.!
I am so happy that you show som “hits” of the wall, with your fine ship. What I mean is that I was beginning to think that your are the perfect pilot...so thank you for making your Journey so real for us “armchair” sailers. I get so carried away when I se you coming close to a hit that I forget that you are the only one taking risks. Thank you for being on board and speeding the video up when you have to, that why I don’t get bored but carried away between the engine and your story telling. 🤗👍
I am glad TH-cam recommended this video to me!
I am glad you watched it!
Yup. Inside and going through all of these is a great time. Thanks for posting this.
is there a chance to rent a kayak somewhere and swim through there for young travelers? the countryside looks amazing
I've never looked into kayak rental but I'm certain there must be places to do it, yes
Well David i just watched 3 of your video’s and I really enjoyed them , i look forward to many more trips through the canals with you , I envy you because it’s something that i would love to do. Keep the video’s coming , they are very enjoyable and many thanks from Canada .
What a nice person speaking in a marvelous English. So enjoyable! Thanks!
I've got to say I love these videos. They're so calming and interesting!!!
"Sylvia's Mother" and "tired" ducks got a laugh, David. :)
Thank you ! You have convinced me, narrow boating is not for me. I lived in Stratford. A walk on the towpath is far more appealing :)
Puny; informative; scenic; just perfect
Cheers
"Get a bit of a scoot on", I am definitely going to be using that. There will always be an England!
Your vids are really great. I'm planning a future as a solo narrowboat operator so you advice is invaluable to me. Thanks so much for posting!
Absolutely fascinating, David! We were so taken with the view coming into, and through, Wilmcote that we had to Google it, and explore the whole town via satellite & street view. We saw both the exact spot where those lovely homes are built right against the water on the left as you came into town, but then found the Edstone Aquaduct further north, and explored it from several angles. Fantastic to experience this trip with you virtually. We can't promise you're not going to have some Canucks visiting you at some point. ;-) Great Dr. Hook reference by the way.
Oh, you know very well you'd be so welcome to visit!
Loved this entertaining commentary...and I'm jealous.
So good to see one of your uploads xxx love cruising the cut.
I enjoy watching your vlogs from the states. The commentary at times is very funny. Thanks for taking me along.
Thanks very much for showing that hire spot (anglowelsh)! you've given me an awesome vacation trip idea and quite a reasonable price for a one or two week rental!
Loved the Silvia’s mother reference! So wonderfully obscure, gave me a good chuckle!
Daddiebear I confess I didn't get it. Then, dredging the recesses of my mind, I recalled the line 'Who is Sylvia?'. That was it, so I was still none the wiser. Then, as I always do, I looked on the Internet and discovered it's a Shakespeare poem. Now I'm checking out if the Bard said anything regarding narrowboats...
John, it's a reference to the Dr Hook song, "Sylvia's Mother"
John Craske check out the song “Silvia’s Mother” by Dr Hook. It’s actually a pretty sad song. But that’s where that reference is coming from.
CruisingTheCut Eh? Who? So the reference was not Shakespearean after all. I'm afraid the only Hook I know is the seafarer who gave Peter Pan et al a hard time.
Again I had to look the good doctor up. I'm afraid that being born in 1945, I am of the generation which followed Elvis, Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Everleys, Stones etc. Can't get into this new-fangled music.
CruisingThe Cut Been doing more reseach on Dr Hook. So my reference to Captain Hook wasn't silly after all, as the name of the band is indeed based on said pirate. Even more startling, I am familiar with one of their songs "When You're in love with a Beautiful Woman". Just didn't know who it was by. Right, that's enough Dr Hook for the time being.
Very enjoyable vlog! Watching from Sydney Aus 🙋♀️
This one was especially puntastic :)
I just came across your channel whilst searching for something interesting to watch. Having lived in Australia most of my life I found this fascinating and enjoyable watching! (I did have a chuckle at the 'scorching hot' 34°c temps though. If summer where i lived didnt go above that I'd be quite happy 😂 Happy boating! ^_^
Haha, to us that's a furnace!
That was soothing!
When I was a kid in the 60s on the Saginaw River in Michigan there was a small restaurant that had a bucket on rope for boaters to write their orders, put money in and ring a bell. They'd pull bucket up and in a while would lower your food down. You never saw a person. It's a KFC now and they don't do it anymore.
Shame! Sounds excellent.
Hi we have a float thru fish and chip shop on the Forth and Clyde canal in Clydebank. It's called mcgonigal's fish boat.
McMonagles this is how u spell it. Sorry autocorrect kicked in and spelt it wrong.
I miss you!!!! Please come back regularly! I have ALS or MND its known as in England and watching your precious videos makes me so happy. Thank you!!!
Hi Mary. There will be some more videos but I'm having a break at present as you know. Cheers
Thhe standard we have come to expect was yet again maintained, thanks David. Melb.
Cheers
Enjoyed very much, thank you for bringing me along.
I’ve just realised I’ve made it past the halfway mark since discovering the channel just two weeks ago! Here’s to the next half. Simply brilliant videos and the narration, camera work and editing is second to none. Keep up the excellent work 👍🏻
I just found your channel in my recommendations, due to my recent fascination with longboat lifestyle. You had me ducking under bridges. Holding my breath going through locks and giggling way to hard at your "tired ducks" and so many others. New sub to follow along on your journey ! Hello from landlocked Kansas USA 🇺🇸 🖐👋🖐👋
Welcome along!
Absolutely fabulous!
Many thanks!
So weird to imagine travelling across an aquaduct, and seeing the landscape (roads, etc) so far below you!
It is a bit peculiar, certainly.
This is amazing thank you for showing this
After years of lurking yours is the first page that enticed me to subscribe. After years of cruising from Seattle to SE Alaska, fishing, crabbing, shrimping, clamming, trekking into trout lakes, anchoring to visit every hot spring or fjord, visiting every small town to big city plus all the Indian villages as well on the way in me own cruiser (Swedish, if you will) I feel I missed the boat....if you will. Thanks for doing it....however.
Thank you! Welcome along.
All the bumps going under the bridges... Maybe just for this episode: Colliding with the Cut
No matter how many episodes of yours ive seen and how much ive learned about overpass narrow boat routes... it blows my mind that narrow boats can scoot over a car highway... and it's business as usual!!!
I agree!!! First time I have ever seen a boat bridge over a roadway!! Usually it's the other way around!
Love these videos, I did not know that there was so much beauty on these little canals.
In Enkhuizen, the Netherlands, there is a McDonald's accessible for small boats, near a canal. The favorite boat trip for my kids.
I was just going to mention that, beat me to it lol.
I have been watching your videos for about two weeks now. They are wonderful to watch. My job has taken me on a semi permanent basis to the Far East where Ilive now and I miss England badly. Your videos bring home to me whenever I watch them. Thank you very much. Incidently, I wondered what professional you have/had since you are very well spoken. I thoughtt you were perhaps an Engliah teacher but now I know you are/were a (TV) journalist. I've SUBSCRIBED ! We love your videos !!!! Publish as many as yoiu can. We'll watch them all.
Hello! Thanks for tuning in and glad you're enjoying them.
I am unsure how many times I have watched this episode. Very nice. Thanks
Finally a CruisingTheCut thank you so much. Wonderful Video Sir.
"Finally"?? It's only been a week since the last one!
I have to get my fix of CruisingTheCut.
glad you hit the left side LOL!! keep knockin them bricks off... JK love your vides from Colorado US
clean pass the rest of the way the elevated canal is wild
Can’t wait to get over to the UK when all of this Corona nonsense is over and done with!Amazing and southing videos!
I get relaxed just watching these videos.
Such beautiful, green scenery. It’s lovely.
Living off the grid on a narrow boat sounds amazing
It is!
Lovely vlog again 👍
Your sense of humor is golden.
A very technical and interesting journey.
Thanks for taking us along!