CruisingTheCut#narrowboat #narrowboats #canal #canals #liveaboard #cruisingthecut The weather was sunny, the mood was chilled, the final three-hour stretch from Market Bosworth to the navigable end of the Ashby canal at Snarestone was, without doubt, the most beautiful cruising I've ever done. It did indeed take me to the edge of heaven.
177. Narrowboating the most gorgeous stretch of canal (Ashby canal)CruisingTheCut2019-06-04 | #narrowboat #narrowboats #canal #canals #liveaboard #cruisingthecut The weather was sunny, the mood was chilled, the final three-hour stretch from Market Bosworth to the navigable end of the Ashby canal at Snarestone was, without doubt, the most beautiful cruising I've ever done. It did indeed take me to the edge of heaven.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library305. Through the Thames Flood Barrier, by narrowboatCruisingTheCut2023-07-23 | #AD Visit ABC Leisure at http://www.abclg.com or call 0330 333 0590 for everything to do with canal boats.
This is Part 2 (of now 3 parts) of the cruise I was pleased to be invited on by the St Pancras Cruising Club. We'd started at SPCC HQ and come down to Limehouse on the Regent's Canal (see prior video) and then went out onto the River Thames and east towards and through the Thames Flood Barrier, in a convoy of 16 narrowboats. Part 3 is "coming soon". Ish.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard304. Every canal enthusiast needs to watch this videoCruisingTheCut2023-07-16 | The Canal & River Trust, the charitable organisation tasked with maintaining the navigations of England & Wales, gets a quarter of its budget from a government grant. It's just been announced that grant is going to be cut from 2027 onwards, leaving the CRT with a huge hole in its finances, that needs to be plugged. I sat down with the boss of the CRT and asked what the practical effects of the cut will be and what they - and we - can do to stave it off.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard303. Its unbelievable what you see in Londons canals!CruisingTheCut2023-07-12 | #AD Join Readly! Two months' free trial, cancel anytime! readly.com/cruising-july
The Regent's Canal runs through much of the middle of London and is a surprisingly peaceful oasis of calm amongst the hustle and bustle of the city. And yes, there is a shark! I joined the St Pancras Cruising Club who'd arrange for a huge convoy of boats to travel along the canal, assembling at Limehouse Basin by the end of the day.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard302. A race to the finish in the BCN canal challengeCruisingTheCut2023-07-03 | #AD Visit ABC Leisure at http://www.abclg.com or call 0330 333 0590 for everything to do with canal boats.
Welcome to the edge-of-your-seat finale of the marathon BCN Challenge 2023, where narrowboaters compete to see who can cover most of the Birmingham canal network in 24 hours.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard301. I took part in a 24-hour narrowboat challenge!CruisingTheCut2023-06-25 | #AD Visit ABC Leisure at http://www.abclg.com or call 0330 333 0590 for everything to do with canal boats.
Every year, the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society (BCNS) hosts the 24-hour BCN Challenge - actually 30 hours long but you have to take 6 for rest. The aim is to cover as much of the 100-mile BCN as possible, without breaking the speed limit, and accruing bonus points for reaching extra-tricky locations. This is my account of being a passenger on the 2023 Challenge.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard300. Reconnecting Wales to England by canal.CruisingTheCut2023-06-16 | #AD Visit ABC Leisure at http://www.abclg.com or call 0330 333 0590 for everything to do with canal boats.
The Montgomery canal which runs from Shropshire into north Wales is absolutely beautiful but only parts of it are in water and useable by boats. Efforts are underway to connect the whole length and this video covers the latest developments.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard299. Getting rain-soaked on a canalCruisingTheCut2023-06-09 | #AD Visit ABC Leisure at http://www.abclg.com or call 0330 333 0590 for everything to do with canal boats.
In order to film the boats featured in my last video, we took them out for a cruise. It was raining. Here is the footage from that gentle trip along the canal.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard298. The man who built a canal boat out of scrap metalCruisingTheCut2023-06-02 | #AD Visit ABC Leisure at http://www.abclg.com or call 0330 333 0590 for everything to do with canal boats.
This video profiles the incredible Edwin Fasham and his two custom-built canal boats, both of them unlike anything I've ever seen before and mostly hand-built by him in his back garden!
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard297. Can they handle it?! American sailors try canal boating (Gone With The Wynns!)CruisingTheCut2023-05-21 | If you're a fan of boating on YouTube you surely must know Nikki and Jason Wynn, ex-RVers turned global sailors. Now having a brand new boat built, they decided to take a little time out to visit Britain and have a go at narrowboating. So I sorted them a 10-day trip on the Llangollen Canal.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard296. A day in the life of a professional canal-boat moverCruisingTheCut2023-05-07 | #AD Two months free! Cancel anytime readly.com/cruising :-) REUPLOADED due to dull technical matter.
I spend a day with Connor Warner, a professional boat mover who takes customers' narrowboats, cruisers, Dutch barges ... you name it .... around the rivers and canals of Britain.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard295. The astonishing garbage thrown into Englands canalsCruisingTheCut2023-04-28 | Every year, the IWA in Milton Keynes organises a massive clean-up of the local stretch of the Grand Union canal, which a team of eager volunteers undertake. The garbage they pull from the waters is quite staggering, as this video shows.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard294. The ship they said couldnt be restored! (actually, it can)CruisingTheCut2023-04-15 | A return visit to ML1392 Sarinda on the Wirral to see how Simon and Gemma are getting on with their painstaking restoration of this historic ship.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboardSlow TV / ASMR electric narrowboat canal cruiseCruisingTheCut2023-04-10 | This is not a vlog, there's no talking or music (deliberately) - it is a "slow TV" uninterrupted recording from the bow camera of the electric day-hire boat seen in video 293 (link below, if you want the vlog version of the trip) doing the return journey from Tamhorn Farm Bridge to Kings Orchard Marina on the Coventry canal near Lichfield.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard293. I tried an electric narrowboat on the canalsCruisingTheCut2023-04-04 | An all-electric narrowboat is now available for hire by the day so it's a low-cost way to test the waters of near-silent narrowboating and leave no air pollution in your wake.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard292. House life vs Boat Life!! And other questionsCruisingTheCut2023-03-26 | This is a much-requested fireside* chat video where I sit and chat for nearly half an hour, answering questions posed to me by viewers.
*There's no fireside but I did have a central heating radiator nearby.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard291B Canal boat cruise with a pirateCruisingTheCut2023-03-16 | This is Part 2 of the day I spent with Heidi, the Narrowboat Pirate, aboard her boat "The Rum Wench". In this video, we cruise a little way up the Llangollen Canal in north Wales, starting from the Prees branch.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard291a A day with Heidi, the narrowboat pirateCruisingTheCut2023-03-05 | I spent a day aboard The Pirate Boat with Captain Heidi; this is part 1 of two videos where we tour her boat and chat about her life afloat. Part 2 will be a cruise with her along part of the Llangollen canal.
See Heidi's version of the day at youtu.be/X4455KVj2lw Be warned: Heidi's channel is VERY, VERY full of innuendo.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard290. Million-pound mega-yachts in Palma, MajorcaCruisingTheCut2023-02-24 | I’m just back from a week’s holiday in Palma in Majorca where I thought I’d do a rare ‘real vlog’ where I wander about as a tourist, pointing the camcorder at the boats.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboardLive from Boat Life Live at the NECCruisingTheCut2023-02-16 | A replay of my live broadcast from "Boat Life Live" at the NEC.
Important note: early in the video I mention that Bickerstaffe Boats appear to have been bought by Lakeland Leisure. In fact, Bickerstaffe Boats is owned by Artie Chalmers and his wife and they were merely exhibiting on the Lakeland Leisure stand as the latter was selling a Bickerstaffe boat with a mooring at one of their marinas. My apologies for the misunderstanding.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard289. The canal painter keeping history aliveCruisingTheCut2023-02-06 | Paintings of roses and castles are about as traditional on the canals of Britain as it's possible to be - but why? Why roses? And castles? And how do you paint them? I went to see a artist and historian Kay Andrews on her boat as as well as Penny Arscott, Manager of Foxton Locks Museum to find out.
Bonus footage! Watch Kay paint the entire cutting board in real time: youtu.be/o-xHQJDoOb0
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard288. An amazing model railway on a canal boat!CruisingTheCut2023-01-27 | Here is an actual - albeit scale model - railway line and even a canal within the hold of a narrowboat on the canal. Made by the wonderful Keith Lodge, he even has a blog for the model which you can follow at http://hadarford.blogspot.com
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard287. Removing 6,000 tonnes of muck from a canal!CruisingTheCut2023-01-17 | If you've ever felt your canal boat scrape on the bottom of the canal and wish more dredging was done by the Canal & River Trust, here's an explainer of how dredging is done, why it's so expensive and why they can't do more of it.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard286. The narrowboat you can drive from the towpath...CruisingTheCut2023-01-07 | For single-handed canal boaters, shimmying up and down lock ladders or trying to get through swing bridges can be a huge nuisance. How much easier it would be if you could steer your boat with remote control! That's exactly what Gill Gregory can do aboard "Desiderata" so I went to see the system in action.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboardMerry Christmas from Cruising the Cut (plus bonus footage)CruisingTheCut2022-12-25 | Really just a chance for me to wish you Merry Christmas but also a good place to pop some spare footage I had from a shoot which didn't end up happening due to bad weather! Please consider it purely bonus clips, it's not supposed to be a full vlog or anything like it.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard285B The narrowboat river trip you’re not allowed to take*CruisingTheCut2022-12-17 | * Well, not usually. But over winter, with permission of the Cam Conservators, you can take a narrowboat onto the Cambridge "Backs", where the river Cam flows behind many of the city's historic colleges.
Many thanks to Simon Judge for asking me along! See his website at scholargypsy.org.uk
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard285A The most unusual narrowboat cruise Ive ever been on (Part 1 of 2)CruisingTheCut2022-12-05 | I was invited to take part in a trip that very few narrowboats are able to enjoy, along the "Cambridge Backs" - the river Cam running through all the historic university colleges. For most of the year the waterway is forbidden to powered craft but in winter, with permission, you can take a narrowboat. The trip is in two parts, this being the first is the voyage from Ely to Cambridge; part 2 is the trip along the Backs themselves.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard284. Festive gifts to buy from British narrowboaters!CruisingTheCut2022-11-25 | A guide to some of the very many gifts you can buy from narrowboaters, hand-made or designed on their narrowboats on the canals of the UK.
Technical note for nerds: yes, this was done against a green screen. Yes, I did forget I was going to hold up items to camera with green in them. Yes, this did lead to infinitely frustrating keying problems hence a bit of green fuzz here and there. Yes, I probably could have masked and tracked out all the offending issues but even with automation this would have taken days as I waved everything around so much. Let's just let it be, eh?
Let me make this *absolutely* crystal clear for any cynical trolls: I am getting NO commission from these vendors and I specifically requested the products on loan, to be returned at my expense after filming (though some of the vendors have since said I can keep them). I chose to feature them entirely of my own accord and no deals have been struck.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard283. Life as a London liveaboard narrowboaterCruisingTheCut2022-11-15 | London's canals and rivers are becoming ever more crowded with boaters as people flock to the capital's waterways, drawn by the lure of a seemingly idyllic and possibly cheaper lifestyle. But is the dream for real or is reality not quite as rosy? I went down to the big smoke to find out.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard282. The last boat of its kind in the worldCruisingTheCut2022-11-06 | Following on from the last video, about wooden narrowboats, which are quite rare on the canals, here's another wooden narrowboat which is even rarer - a "fly boat", the parcels service of the canal network.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard281. The old wooden boats that are restoring people (yes, you read that right)CruisingTheCut2022-10-26 | The Wooden Canal Boat Society in Ashton-under-Lyne is a wonderful group of enthusiasts who not only renovate and bring new life to decaying ancient wooden narrowboats but also provide valuable services to the local community. And, curiously, the boats have been restoring the volunteers as well.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard280. The “working” narrowboat that hides a secretCruisingTheCut2022-10-13 | A few weeks ago I went past the well-known historic narrowboat "Dover" on the Grand Union Canal but its looks belie its actual interior so I went back for a proper snoop around.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard279. Tiny Narrowboats!CruisingTheCut2022-10-03 | Regular viewers will know I have long had an interest in - some might say an obsession about - very short narrowboats on the British canals. The time had come for me to go and have a look around a couple and see if they are for me.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboardLIVE for Part 2 of the Cotswold Canals Trust Annual Raft RaceCruisingTheCut2022-09-25 | Broadcasting live from the Cotswold Canals Trust annual raft race in Stroud, Gloucestershire
RESULTS! Taylor Made - 20:58 Cotswold Boatmobility - 21:57 Green Pig - 27:06 Riff Raff - 27:18 Renishaw Raiders - 27:34 Ragged and Dangerous - 28:33 Greeny McGreenface - 32:12 Chaos Cruisers - 32:24 Up The Albert - 32:40 Wallbridge Wonder - 33:50 GSRE - 47:57
For a technical "behind the scenes", see youtu.be/pAH1NlzpetYLIVE from the Cotswold Canals Trust Annual Raft RaceCruisingTheCut2022-09-25 | Broadcasting live from the Cotswold Canals Trust annual raft race in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
RESULTS! Taylor Made - 20:58 Cotswold Boatmobility - 21:57 Green Pig - 27:06 Riff Raff - 27:18 Renishaw Raiders - 27:34 Ragged and Dangerous - 28:33 Greeny McGreenface - 32:12 Chaos Cruisers - 32:24 Up The Albert - 32:40 Wallbridge Wonder - 33:50 GSRE - 47:57
For a technical "behind the scenes", see youtu.be/pAH1NlzpetY278. The ferry boat with little legsCruisingTheCut2022-09-16 | I went to visit a unique ferry boat in south Wales. This is the story of that trip. For the "behind the scenes" campervan trip, see youtu.be/vfKXWhRAB_k
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard277. Narrowboat cruising up a creek in CambridgeshireCruisingTheCut2022-09-07 | This is the third and final part of my cruise along the Middle Level Navigations across the Cambridgeshire Fens on a borrowed narrowboat, in which I go up Well Creek.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard276. Narrowboating from Whittlesey to March on the Middle Level NavigationsCruisingTheCut2022-08-30 | This is part 2 (of 3) of my cruise along the Middle Level Navigations on the Cambridgeshire Fens, as I took the narrowboat I'd borrowed from Whittlesey to March. It was windy and the skies were dull.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard275. Boating in a drainage ditch!CruisingTheCut2022-08-23 | I was lent a narrowboat for a week by two viewers of the channel! Starting in Peterborough, I took the boat off the River Nene and onto the Middle Level Navigations. This is part 1 of 3 of that week-long cruise.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard274A Not a Vlog - realtime narrowboat cruise from Gayton Junction to Weedom Bec (ASMR / Slow TV)CruisingTheCut2022-08-09 | This is an uninterrupted (almost, there are a couple of camcorder battery changes and a re-fuelling stop) video recording from the camera on the bow of a narrowboat as it travelled along the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire from Gayton Junction to Weedon Bec.
There is no music, just the natural sound captured by the camera. If you want music, I recommend playing your own choice as you watch, that way you can be 100% happy with your selection.
For the much shorter vlog version of the trip, with commentary etc, see youtu.be/46onhJvFJBA
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard274. Narrowboat cruising on the Grand Union CanalCruisingTheCut2022-08-03 | A long-standing viewer of this channel was kind enough to offer me a day trip on her boat as she came along the Grand Union canal from Gayton to Weedon, so of course I jumped at the chance.
For the (almost) uninterrupted bow-camera video, all three hours of it, see youtu.be/dxF-R6sNE0s
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard273. The Little Ships that saved us from the Nazis (plus other classic boats)CruisingTheCut2022-07-26 | Rescuing hundreds of thousands of stranded Allied troops in World War 2, the Little Ships of Dunkirk are little miracles. Several of these historic vessels were on display at the Thames Traditional Boat Festival at Henley-on-Thames. I went along to have a look at all the spectacle and to hitch a ride on Little Ship "Aquabelle".
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard272. The deepest, highest, longest canal tunnel in BritainCruisingTheCut2022-07-17 | Opened originally in 1811, the Standedge (pronounced "Stannedge", apparently) canal tunnel is a legendary boating experience at 5km (3.5m) long and hundreds of feet underground. I was lucky enough to join narrowboaters on a Pennine Cruise organised by the Huddersfield Canal Society as they went through this amazing tunnel.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard271. Canal boating in convoy through Birmingham.CruisingTheCut2022-07-09 | (This is not a repeat of the live broadcast but a full vlog of the day).
On Saturday 25th June 2022, around 80 narrowboats took part in a colourful and noisy parade through Birmingham to mark the city hosting this year's Commonwealth Games. This is my record of that day.
You may also have spotted I did a 'live' broadcast during the event, this can be seen here: youtu.be/hCFNVXvf4sA
Please note: to prevent copyright strikes against this video, I have had to replace the background sound as we went through the centre of the city (there was a lot of music playing, which resulted in a copyright claim on my live broadcast). I trust this minor but necessary adjustment does not spoil your enjoyment of the video. Tough luck if it does.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard270. Cruising the Cut and AQUAHOLIC go to seaCruisingTheCut2022-07-03 | On the canals of the UK, the speed limit is 4mph so how would I fare when given the chance to do over 30 knots on the open sea? An invitation from legendary boat-tour channel @AQUAHOLIC gave me the chance to find out, on a day in Devon with Mr Nick Burnham himself.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboardBoating in Birmingham (recording of “live” broadcast)CruisingTheCut2022-06-25 | A rather impromptu live-stream on my iPhone (sorry, should have actually planned this in advance so as to avoid the naff sound due to wind but it only occurred to me to go live as we went along) from the large cavalcade of boats in Birmingham, assembled to do a bit of flag-waving for the city as it hosts this year's Commonwealth Games. Thanks to Narrowboat "Old Nick" for hosting me!
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard269. Steam narrowboat on the British canalsCruisingTheCut2022-06-23 | On a sunny day at the Anderton Boat Lift, I was delighted to have the opportunity to chat with Katherine Hutchinson who operates the steam-powered narrowboat Emily Anne.
My prior video about the Anderton Boat Lift can be seen here: youtu.be/gJDqGimPc9Q
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard268. Replacing canal lock gates using a boat craneCruisingTheCut2022-06-15 | Every year, the Canal & River Trust replace a load of worn-out lock gates across the 200+ year-old canals of England and Wales. But how do you lift a 4-tonne chunk of wood out of its bindings, on waterway, often with limited room to manoeuvre? With a crane on a boat, that's how...
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard267b. Scotland’s Union Canal is 200 years old (narrowboat flotilla Part 2)CruisingTheCut2022-06-06 | As part of the 200th anniversary celebrations for the Union Canal in Scotland, running from Edinburgh to Falkirk, two flotillas were organised over two days in May. I joined both, through a bit of logistical effort involving my campervan, and this is the second of my videos of that trip.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard267a. Happy 200th birthday! A party for Scotland’s Union CanalCruisingTheCut2022-05-31 | Throughout 2022, Scottish Canals is holding a series of events to mark the 200th anniversary of the Union Canal which links Edinburgh to Falkirk, and I went along for a two-day flotilla cruise to mark the occasion. This is Part 1 (of 2) of that trip. Part 2 is coming soon, once I've edited it.
Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the YouTube music library
#narrowboat #canal #cruisingthecut #rivers #offgrid #liveaboard266. A narrowboat designed for the less agile liveaboard boaterCruisingTheCut2022-05-23 | What would a narrowboat look like if you were able to start with a blank sheet of paper and design it so that the boat was still very usable in later life or with limits on your physical agility? A couple from Hampshire have done just that so I went along to see the finishing touches being put to the boat ahead of it going on display at the Crick Waterways show in June.