Old age & DAMP patches - BOAT LIFE as a SOLO FEMALE aboard a NARROWBOAT [Ep 92]
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- It's bleeding cold and I continue my solo narrowboat adventure, cruising downstream on the Llangollen canal. I tackle some DIY projects that I have been putting off - The joys of living aboard a boat and meet up with a fellow single handed narrowboat friend to help each other down the canal locks.
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Like many people I stumbled on your channel and kept watching. What a fascinating brilliant talented character you are. You deserve a TV Series except they would fuck it up. 😂😂
Aww thank you 😂🏴☠️❤️
She's lovely, God a c ruise would really be a Fun Cruise with this exceptional Woman❤ She could be Brilliant on TV
@@smljohnstone awww thank you 😃🏴☠️❤️
@@smljohnstone arrrgh 😂😂
Yes I thought the same!
She has a real talent for
video presentation too.
I loved walking round the canals around Anderton lock when I stayed with a relative in Barnton.
My favourite pirate story ........
A tourist meets a pirate , and notes that the pirate has a peg leg, a hook, and an eye patch. The tourist asks, "So, how did you end up with the peg leg?"
The pirate replies, "Aye, matey, we was in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard into a load of sharks. Just as me men were pulling me out, a shark bit me leg off."
"Wow!" said the tourist. "What about your hook?"
"Well," replied the pirate, "We were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords. One of the enemy cut my hand off."
"Incredible!" remarked the tourist. "How did you get the eye patch?"
"A sea-gull dropping fell into me eye," replied the pirate.
"You lost your eye to a sea-gull dropping?" the tourist asked incredulously.
"Not exactly," said the pirate. "It was me first day with the hook."
😂😂
I did hear that Captain Hook died from jock itch.....
You are an absolute delight and bring such a lively, lovely spirit to narrow boating.
Aww thank you 😄🏴☠️
OLD AGE AND DAMP PATCHES
THE BOATS GOT THEM TOO !
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What an absolutely wonderful way to live! Your little bed looks so comfy. Over here in US I have a massive van that I camp in on occasion. I would trade that any day for your peaceful canal life. I'm totally envious. I can only imagine the world going by so slowly. Epic! Be well, stay happy. Cheers.
Aww thank you and may you have many good adventures in your van 😄🏴☠️
Ive just discovered your channel & am excited to binge your channel from the beginning. Your delivery is well done & the editing is smart. I especially love the natural sound you allow in your cuts. Ive got many questions & im certain your vids will answer a few. Kudos my friend! Ill watch the ads for ya too😊
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
I love how you have a little mobile community that moves around and gathers in different places.
It’s so amazing ❤️😄🏴☠️
Amazing captain ❤
That looks like an awesome peaceful, relaxing way to live, I think I could be quite happy living that way.
You are so much fun I love watching you go through good old England, the land of my mother who came from Manchester and was a WW 2 Warbride. I am from Smiths Falls, Ontario Canada. Happy Sailing!
Sharon Clarke
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Belated Birthday Greetings Heidi. There were so many references to ni@@les that I hadn't enough fingers and toes on which to keep count.
Anyway, here is my short pirate story for my favourite short pirate.
Heidi is a pirate wench who sails the inland narrows.
So brave is she to solo sail, amid the swans and sparrows.
She fears not the cold and rain despite her rising ripples.
She carries on, and wets the lips with Rum, her favourite tipples.
Inside her boat, it's toasty warm. So cosy and inviting. Her adventures on Rum Wench are really quite exciting.
Stay safe fair wench both near and far and warm your hands before removing your bra.
(With reference to your new body warmers)
Brilliant Harry 😂🏴☠️
Bravo!
very good dude . . .
I appreciate the free, independent spirit of narrowboaters. If I was 30 years younger and in better health, I'd definitely have to give it a go. Videos by you, Dave, etc. are very encouraging to watch.
Aww thank you 😃
Beautiful camera work and drone work throughout this video. You’re getting so good at it all.
Using the drone also as a way of looking at what’s up ahead is a good idea, being on your own. Brilliant and very handy 🙂
🙂🐿🌈❤️
Thank you, I crashed it last week 😂😂
Arrrr! A pirate woman single-handin' 'er narrow-boat through England's canals in search of treasure. Now that's somethin' after me own heart. Great video! An' I'm yer newest subscriber.
Aww thank you and welcome aboard 😄🏴☠️
This is the first time I watched your video and I am fascinated. I have long dreamed about what it would be like to live on a long boat, now I can find out.
Thanks for watching 😄🏴☠️
The Pirate stood on the burning deck his legs all a quiver
He gave a cough
His knob dropped off
And floated down the river.
How’s that 😁
😂😂
Another fab one! We knew that book would bring you hours of underpants joy. Glad you’re sharing it with your viewers ❤😂
Oh it’s going to bring so much fun 😂😂🏴☠️
Doing the ''Dreams'' of life is why we get out of bed. My thing is finding off beat places around Oz during winters and sparking up a huge fire. Ports, Cubans and a fire cooked dinner, another 8 weeks and I'm off again for another 4 months straight, living the life.
Wow sounds amazing ❤️🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate Living in your own Universe seeking the vast depths of your mind is an amazing journey. Nikola Tesla was onto this 100 years ago.
The more you unplug from the 'World'' the more you'll discover ''Inside''
The physical body is just transport for a ''Mind'' very few will ever grasp in this life time. The stars are vast in number yet so far away. But being so far away makes the nights that much more mythical. If they were vastly closer then nights would not exist. We only see 2 worlds, a day and a night. I think there is far far more than that.
More people need to ''Journey''
More people need to discuss their findings
More people need to share their thoughts
Sadly the idiot screen has closed that door
I absolutely love your videos! The way you put them together is like I’m on the voyage with you, and it’s a happy one no matter what you’re going through. You’re amazing!
Thank you so much!! And thank you for taking the time to leave such a lovely comment 😃🏴☠️❤️
The views Heidi, in your last few videos have been absolutely stunning. Here’s to boiling 🥵 yer knickers off! he-he ☺️
😃🏴☠️ thank you
Nah then, ay up me duck.
I can't wait to walk the Llangollen later this year, hopefully I'll have a bit warmer weather, mind. A belated happy birthday 🎂🎈👍🙂
It’s such an amazing canal 😄❤️🏴☠️
I’m fascinated by how narrow the canal seems to be, yet how easily you seem to steer the boat. Is it as easy as you make it look, or did you take a long while to be that good? The corners look like they are impossible, given how long the boat is, and the fact that you steer only by a tiller in the stern. You should do an episode where operating the boat is highlighted. Love your stuff.
Yeah you just get used to it… as long as you go slow it’s all ok 😃🏴☠️
yes it helps if you have a large one . .rudder . . .
@@Headwind-1 so size does matter then? 🎉
For the first time I've seen my boat, yeah!
Whey hey 😄🏴☠️
I just started watching you for about a week now and almost finished all your episodes. Just loving all your video's love your humor I laugh everytime your cheeky lol. Happy Birthday Heidi!
Welcome aboard! And thanks so much for watching 😃🏴☠️
Another great episode, cheerful as ever, love your attitude, Good Luck. Graham
Fire is my favorite part of rolling on the rivers
I love my fire 😃🏴☠️
Brings back some nearly forgotten experiences. I was sent to school in Ellesmere (and hated that awful school). But in my last year there I got heavily into kayaking. The target for all my training was the famous Devizes to Westminster race, 127 miles and we finished in just under 24hours. In those days the summit of the Kennet and Avon was dry and it meant a 2 mile portage (running with kayak). But the highlight was escaping the dreadful school each morning for an hour or so kayaking. Weekends meant longer trips to Llangollen and back (taking a tent, and enjoying under aged drinking at night). Beautiful canal, even at 5am in the winter, cracking the ice with our paddles. Pity I had to leave it to go back to the institutional bullying of the English Private school system of that time.
Aww bless you! Well at least kayaking and the canals got you away for a short time ❤️🏴☠️
I also went to boarding schools, three in fact, last one in N Devon close to Dartmore in a very small village. Reading about your escape from school by kayaking, mine was cycling, used to cycle 15 miles to Bideford to see my sister in another boarding school.
The pirate boat slid through the sea making only ripples. Do you want to finish that on off Hiedi, happy birthday.
Lmao 😂😂
Just stumbled across this channel, thought I give it a look,really enjoyed it ,certainly nothing boring about it 🙂so look forward to seeing a few more adventures.
Aww thank you 😃🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate love your video s how do you make ends meet x
Heck of a sunset! That old saying, "Red sky at night, Shepherds delight; Red sky int morning, Shepherds hut aburning."😀
😂😂😂
This is really an eye opening video to those who think life on the canal is all peaches and cream…as fun as it must be it’s also a hell of a lot of work from what I’ve seen…keep on keepin on 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks you T, i try to show it all on here 😄🏴☠️
Thanks!
Cheers Alan 😃🏴☠️
Absolutely loved this one Cap’n H!
Its got the lot - lovely countryside, lovely boat, lovely sunset, lovely friends and lovely family. Off the scale. Thank you so much.
Aww thank you John 😃🏴☠️❤️
I just love your ‘engine room’.
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
A belated happy birthday Heidi. I can see you had a smashing time with the family. Thank you for sharing, the Vlog was lovely. All the best.❤Stephen xx
Aww thank you Stephen 😄❤️🏴☠️
I love Thursdays watching your videos! 😄🏴☠️
Happy Belated Birthday too!! 🥳🥳🥳
Yay! Thank you! 😃🏴☠️
What a life. I'm envious. Spent a lifetime on land because of funky ear canals and severe motion sickness from dysautonomia.
I'll live vicariously through you.😁👍
Happy belated birthday.🎉🎂 Thanks for letting us spend it with you.
The "nipples" talk had me in tears.
😂🏴☠️
Bridge 69, makes me smile every time, I’m no more grown up than you are Heidi 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂
Wish I could give multiple thumbs up for this one. Happy Birthday Heidi. Wonderful. Simply Wonderful.
Aww thank you 😄🏴☠️
i normaly find narrowboat videos boring but not yours.enjoyed it...miss pirate..
Aww thank you 😄🏴☠️
An ode to a pirate....
One day aboard the Rum Wench
Her buttocks our Heidi did clench
As her rather large shaft
And her ginormous draft
Caused her boat to get stuck in a trench
The cold weather affected her nips
And almost froze her top lips
But this wench she just laughed
As she took out her flask
And treated herself to some sips
Shes survived lock jizz and other such frights
Cold mornings and boiling hot nights
Duvets in the hatch
An expensive new cratch
So this wasn't too much of a plight
With heart things to warm up her nipples
Dancing round to that tune called "Stiff Ripples"
She's sound as a pound
Til help can be found
Knocking back all her favorite tipples!
Tracy 🙏 😆 Well, Bob Dylan it ain't but it's the best I could do!
Wow absolutely brilliant 😂😂
@@TheNarrowboatPirate cheers ears!
well done . . .
@@Headwind-1 😆
A moist bilge! That made me laugh. Been 18 years on board now but never heard that. Made my day 👍😊
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HIEDI
I see Jim just checking rosey has got her thermals on it must be cold 😆
Lmao 😂😂
Happy Birthday Heidi!
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
Lovely vlog, Heidi. Nice to see you having your birthday with family. Fantastic sunset.
Thanks so much! 😊🏴☠️
Happy birthday and lot's more of them oxoxox. Steve
Thank you
I have been binge watching all your past videos 😁. Came across you accidentally about three weeks back. Your brilliant and I absolutely love your channel. 🦜 I didn't even know there was such a thing as narrow boating. And those canal's with all the gorgeous country-side views. With those fantasticly old bridges and lochs. I'm way over the other side of the world in New Zealand,we have nothing like it. I can see why you love England so much. She's a beautiful old country. You work so hard every day just to maintain your lifestyle and you do it with style. So thank you so much for sharing part of your life. Glad your nipples won't be nippy any longer. 😂. Happy belated birthday Heidi from a new subscriber. 🎂.
Aww thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave such a lovely comment - thank you 😄🥃🏴☠️
Belated birthday greetings, looks like you had extended celebrations 🍾 that drone footage looks chilly, icey fields ❄️ good to see safety first on those frosty locks. Stay safe, thank you for keeping us all entertained xx see you next Thursday ♥️
😃❤️🏴☠️
Happy Birthday 🎂.
Thanks Mark 😃🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate You're welcome.
Looking forward to your next Great video,enjoying your cruising it takes me away for awhile I day dream about living on a narrow boat 😊stay safe and warm
Aww thank you … I hope your dreams come true soon 🏴☠️😄❤️
I’m already inspired with that view
Belated Happy 🎂 Heidi. Loved this video. You sure looked as if you had a great time, both with your lovely family and friends. Thanks for taking us on yet another journey. The scenery is always amazing and that sky was awesome. Stay safe out there.
Thank you so much! 😄🏴☠️
Your boats are something else...
Happy Birthday 🎉 Hope you have had an amazing time. What an amazing family you have. Stay safe pirate :)
Thank you so much!
So jealous you have the perfect life. Happiness is most important and you have really found it
Aww thank you 😄🏴☠️
Ah! Happy belated birthday 🎂 Heidi. Just discovered your channel and I’ve been slowly catching up on all your older vlogs. Love your vlogs, your content and humor. 😀
Aww thank you 😃🏴☠️
Nip in the Air is lovely!
Thank you 😃🎵
What a beautiful way of life.
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Great vid yet again Heidi!
It’s not a story but I think you should read this out!
There once was a pirate named Bates,
Danced a hornpipe for all of his mates,
But he slipped on his cutlass,
And made himself `nut-less`,
And now he's just worthless on dates.
It’s not mine but it just made me laugh!
Love it 😂😂❤️
Wish we had these in Canada without freezing! Love it! and jealous!
Aww thank you 😃
Dear TNP Rum Wench.
👍👌👏 This is the first time I watched a video about your narrow boating and I like it really very much. Because of your birthday and the mentioned nipple warmers etc. it was even more special. 😁 ;-) I definitely like your humour and your little bit of naughtiness. 😇 2) I wonder if it is possible to collect some fire wood along the channels? It could at least help to start your coal fires and save a bit money. But maybe you already do collect branches and driftwood etc.?
Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards, luck and especially health to all involved people.
Yes I often forage wood and sticks on my travels 😄🏴☠️
Dear @@TheNarrowboatPirate
Thanks for replying and especially for another heart. By the way: Here's one 💚 for you. Of course in my favourite colour because I love nearly anything that is green.
2) Yes, I already thought that you would definitely collect sticks while traveling respectively while mooring. In fact meanwhile I already saw you collecting/foraging small sticks. But I thought that you would also want bigger ones for making your fire really burn high/hot. 😁 ;-)
Sincerely yours.
I love your music, brilliant vlog x
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
the music is proper I'm envious
Thank you 🏴☠️😄
Stay warm 🤗
You too 😃🏴☠️
You must be the life and soul of any party. Brilliant!
😂🏴☠️🥃 cheers!
18:49 so flipping awesome. How beautiful, thanks for sharing this.
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Thanks for watching 🌈😄🥃🏴☠️
What a great way of living. Enjoy!
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
My great great grandfather was captain Morgan he’s not here any more but I’m a chip of the old block
And happy birthday matey
Cheers 😄🏴☠️
Heidi, you give whole new meaning to the phrase “Bite the bullet…” 😜
😂😂
I'm so glad you got off with some friends and family for your birthday...
My morning inspiration
What a fascinating presentation! I'm watching from landlocked Alberta Canada. I grew up on the West coast near Vancouver, so I have a long history with boats. I spent a year as deckhand on a 40m private yacht out of Florida, and travelled all the way to Bonaire. It was an amazing time of life. After that, I came back to Vancouver and spent the next 15 years working for yachtbuilders.
I'd love to spend a week travelling slowly along the canals with you.
You can hire boats over here 😄🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate Haha, understood. I wasn't looking for an invitation. Just letting you know I'm routinely getting lost in the fantasy of living your life 😋
I so enjoy your music, I think it reminiscent of the style of composing published by Wyndham Hill studios.
Very impressed by your huge shaft. I had to blow down my blouse. Ooh err Missus.
😂😂
We dont have canals in Oz., love your videos, your persona, you would be a ton of fun in a pub for a night your lighthearted humor, awsome,
Aww thank you 😃🏴☠️
Hi Heidi, in this video, and plenty of others, you show the towpath which is basically just a mud bath. Yet When you show us inside your boat, the floors are immaculate ..... So my question is how the heck do you keep the mud out of your boat. Unless you spend hours every day cleaning.
As always, it's a joy to watch your vlogs, and a happy belated birthday to you. 🙂
I take my shoes off in the back cabin when I get in and I have a dyson vacuum and also just give the floors a wipe over most days with floor cloths, it takes no time at all and makes the boat smell amazing 😃🏴☠️
I always remember with happy thoughts a wonderful summer holiday with mum,dad and my sister on the canals, we lived in Maidenhead and it wasn’t far away to pick up the boat, it was fantastic, especially the locks, in-fact a few years later I joined the Merchant Navy, but that’s another story. I do remember seriously considering getting a canal boat, being able to move around was very attractive.
I adore it … I bet you had some great laughs in the merchant navy though 😄🏴☠️
The sunset was outrageous. Birthday Blessings.
Sailed the Llangollen a number of years back, during September. No holiday traffic, weather not too bad. My favorite canal.
Learned about your vlogs from the ones you've done with C.T.C David....and very happy I have done....cheers!!
Welcome aboard! And thank you - David is a wonderful guy 😄🏴☠️
what a lovely person you arrr xxx
Aww thank you
What a wonderful boat and travel on the narrow waterways in that beautiful country must be extremely delightful! Surely I would enjoy doing that some point in life. Seems you must provision heavily by seeing its very rural countryside. First I have seen. NARROWBOAT Chanel. Thanks for the Pleasant experience, would truly need to put this on my bucket list.
Aww thank you 😄🏴☠️
Lidle from time to time sell green fishing gloves that has a neoprene hinge on the index finger, so you can sort your phone out etc.
We wintered on the Llangollen last winter, so different to the summer months but still beautiful. Lovely to see your birthday celebrations. Nothing better than dead man's fingers.....
Aww we are loving it 😄❤️🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate without me 😢😍
@@NarrowboatChangingPace 😂😂
I love the sound of the old engine!
I can’t wait to turn it off at the end of a day though haha
Omg Heidi was watching 999 Critical Care on TV and in it was a lady who had fallen off her boat and the prop had cut up and broken her foot!! For fluffs sake take care out there. We worry about you x
Very enjoyable, as usual, thank you. AK
Thanks for watching 😄🏴☠️
You are a naughty pirate. Love it.
Happy birthday Heidi. Be healthy and happy. May the water gods protect you.😊🎉
bless ya
Drinking some beers for your birthday cheers girl love the boat
Cheers 😄🏴☠️
Really love "Pirates love underpants" , it's brilliant. Used to read it to my kids.
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Wow that sunset was stunning Mrs. Happy birthday. Love that sign. Blimey heated jacket. I'm well jel. Ta Ra.
Thanks so much I can’t wait to try it 😂😂
You should put a couple of jumpers on until the fires warmed thing up......
Stay safe, stay free. stay afloat 😁👍
Top lass!! Ellesmere, great place, great load up venue too
Oh you have a beautiful family first time I'm on U-boat what a lovely time
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
red sky in the morning sailors take warning I think I have caught up a bit have been binge watching your channel at the time its my fav
Aww thanks Ian 😄🏴☠️
Pleasing video, thank you.
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
Hi gal, just came across your channel, & like your attitude to single handed living afloat. Here's a little tip for you. Before you use the Kurust, instead of using turps, (which is an oil based thinner, & the instructions on Kurust say the the surface should be clean, dry & grease free), use Meths instead, which is spirit based, & will remove any oil or grease & speed up the conversion process. I'm gonna subscribe & look forward to your further adventures.
Regards.........Urban Geeze.
Aww thank you and also thanks for the tip 😃🏴☠️
You make it look so easy and you are beautiful to boot
Aww thank you 😄🏴☠️
When burning coal, it often helps to start your fire using dry wood after your kindling. Once you have a bed of charcoals stick your coals on top and you will find your coal lasts much longer in the burning session. This does mean you will have to scavenge some 3 to 4 inch sticks in the summer and cut it up. Use seasoned wood, or at least the dry standing dead wood you find in woodland in a hot dry spell in summer. I think the secret is in the ash and charcoal bed. Shh keep your wood collecting stealth or from the canal banks.
If you go to 4:14 mark, you will see the Rum Wench painting on the side of the boat. Look a bit to the left....That's your shadow. Interesting. The Wenches drinking rum together
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