The most UNDERRATED trip we ever did! French Canals| Patreon Q&A | Part 1
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- Опубліковано 22 січ 2020
- How to do the French Canals by sailboat?! Before we journeyed from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic side of France by sailboat, we had a LOT of questions. Plenty of boaters choose to unstep their mast and transit the Canal de Garonne and Canal du Midi, but there weren't many videos on UA-cam giving us the practical advice and information we were seeking. So, we hope to address that with today's Q&A, brought to you by our lovely Patrons! Hope you enjoy this episode!
Cheers,
Nick & Terysa
Q&A PART TWO: • REGRETS, What We Wish ...
Timestamps:
01:53 What were the dimensions of the French Canals?
07:50 What were the fees for the French Canals?
10:40 What were the rules of the road/canal etiquette for the French Canals?
12:59 Were the locks in France automated?
15:48 What is the speed limit on the French Waterways?
15:55 How did we tie up every evening?
16:00 What are the hours of operation in the French Canals?
19:05 What was the availability of diesel, pump out facilities & provisions on the canals?
20:50 Sailboat mast transport for the french canals Med to Atlantic
21:30 How to transport mast on sailboat on the french canals
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Cheers,
Nick & Terysa
So glad you had fun in the Midi guys! It certainly looks like a different experience from our French canals - although we did find a few hanging handles to operate the locks. We also saw other methods such as motion detectors to prep and open the lock then handles in the lock to run the cycle once you were settled. We also were much less troubled by the charter fleet problems. We did pass through a couple of areas where there were bases but they were just local sections then we were out in the regular open stretches again with just us and other long term travellers. Of our 179 locks transited we were only in those areas for much less than 1/4 of the time. We also had none of the rounded locks which looked difficult since your mast would come close due to the radius. Also the depth was 1.8 meters so we had much more underwater clearance.
Hugs,
Paul & Sheryl
SY Distant Shores III
Good stuff! As I’d probably lose my mind with the inept boaters one more thing I’d add to my kit is bail money.
Nick you have a rare gift in that you can make Terysa laugh. Don’t lose it because she is a gem.
Some years ago (2006?) we did canals east of Paris on a private boat. For us the auto locks tended to work on electronic eyes 1/2 km before the lock then in lock red and blue vertical poles to operate the hydraulic controls of the locks. We never saw a twisty pole.
There were small Government free marinas. Part of canal system. But they were mainly in the middle of nowhere. This meant you needed bicycles to get anywhere to far to walk. Dutch canals I have done a lot more they have the canal going right thru the town centers making much more attractive to travel , stop etc.. The French canals were revamped and expanded by Napoleon who made then all the same size but had to build them where he could. Defiantly enjoyed my time on canals.
My sister rented a canal boat for a honeymoon and her husband was a long time skilled power boater. He found the design of the rental boats so bad that steering and driving was really difficult! But there are definitely incompetently operators.
Cheers Warren
Nivernais is another exception to automated canals. In most of them you and/or a lockkeeper (they like the help) push on a huge wooden lever swing the gates open and closed. And you get out and crank up some of the low bridges by hand. Rough on the elbows, as my wife can attest.
So lots of Capt'n Crash in the French canal system during the holidays.
Very useful information, thanks!
A pleasure mate
Now my wife and I are conflicted. You got us all fire-up to do the Canal Du Midi, so we decided to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary on the canal on a hire boat this fall. Then you let us know about the level of incompetence you saw from those that were on hire boats. We get it because we've been sailing up and down the east coast of the US and through the Bahamas for the last 20 years and have had numerous encounters with charter boats. We call them "Student Drivers". So here's the conflict. We want to experience southern France by water, but we don't want to be one of "Those People". In truth we don't care about that, but it is good to know what we may encounter from other boaters on the canal. Thanks as always for your thoughtful and humorous incite. Sail on!
They don't call them bumper boats for nothing. My experienced friends fell in the locks and dropped thier bicycles in etc. It's a whole new world.
I'm adopting "cheaper than ski chalet" and "cheaper than a peacock" into my daily language, thanks!
From time stamps 30:20 to 30:40 is priceless and why I keep watching you two. Truly fun! Love your channel.
By the time you were done talking about this trip I decided that it was fun to listen to your trip, but no way I would want to put up with the negative issues. Especially the other boaters and that stuff! Very informative. Happy Trails
Brilliant! thank you, How wonderfully informative.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
When in doubt, throttle out! Thanks for the Q&A!
Very well done!
Extremely informative and entertaining!
Love following you two!
Saw the thumbnail on my homepage and thought, "WTF is Little Caprice doing on UA-cam? Ohhhh... it's one of the sailboat channels I subbed to."
some good info in there. Thanks for the great vid.
Teryse you should make a whole episode of Nick Rants for our comedic relief....
Congratulations You Two‼️
Love your videos. So entertaining. Been to France so many times and love to go on the Canal de Midi. Thank you.
At 18.26 Nick mentions buying four candles. Did they then light them during a cosy evening on-deck, it'd have been nice to have seen that, oh well.
Just want to say I really liked that trip. I did a bike and barge trip with a group up the rhone river for a week about a year ago, and the views on your trip were quite similar, so I got to relive that experience. Well done.
Great video!! Loved the canal series as a whole.
DEPTH depends on time of year. Springtime favourable. If you then can’t travel under a bridge arch, a few sweets and the local schoolchildren will weigh you down.
Y’all are so much fun
I can appreciate your incident (33 minute mark) with the young Spanish women who said "This isn't my fault. I don't know what I am doing". I live in Mexico and on numerous occasions I have been told after an accident, when it is the other persons fault "It's was an accident, it's not my fault." Yepper, if a person is incompetent, blame the entity incompetent.
Fully enjoyed your canal transit!! Hahaha thanks for the meters to feet conversions Nick!Great Q&A Part 1 guys. Look forward to all the future adventures! fair winds and following seas Ruby Rose!
Great video - again!
Don’t think I will do the canal anytime soon but enjoyed following along!
You guys are great. Mount a camera to the bow and do that trip again with nothing but cruising and I'm hooked. I LOVE those 1 to 3 hour (and more) "just cruising" videos. Yea. Especially canals in summer when all is green. Just put them on and let them run.
Really informative!
Always a great story and lessons learned :)
Thank You for your video. I look forward to your next video.
Like your comments in this video.
Entertaining. Informative. Believable.
Awesone, thanks for this vid!!!
Hey Terysa and Nick - CONGRATS :*
The best videos I have seen, you are a dream team (crew) with a lot of humor take care off you!
Agree about the shallow depths in the Canal du midi. I did that trip in the mid 1980s when I was 14 with my father, delivery trip back for his friend, sailing from Ibiza, in a rebel 41. I think the water levels were slightly deeper then. non the less we got stuck south of Avignon (grounded) as water level dropped (we were going the Rhone route). Had to wait a few days for the Hydro power station further up to open the sluice and let some water down to free us off. Fond memories though and cheap wine - (first time I got legless! - something less frowned upon back then :) ) Fair Winds.
What is the key takeaway from all of this? Men, if you want to marry and live a happy life find a girl with dreams of sailing and adventure. Ladies, if you want to marry and live a happy life find a man with dreams of sailing and adventure . These 2 fine Sailors are living proof with hard work and determination those dreams are possible.
Very interesting
Very informative. I will probably never do the French Canals, but the basic management and approach to solving situation that come up is good.
This is definitely on my bucket list - also a way to gradually convince my partner to entertain open water.
Good Morning Nick and Terysa,
I just finished watching your visit with Nandji ... great to see you tubers meeting up .
I thought it was something when you met up with Niki and Jason , and now Yosh and Bonita, wow, my 3 favorite channels are all connected .
Thanks
Bob from Calgary
ps......Congrats
Cheers mate. They are super nice people and it was a pleasure to see their part of the world
I was watching the new Sailing Nandji All smiles to you two.
Great episode, plus you’re getting so close to 100k subscribers!
CONGRATS you two!! Snuck over from Nandji !!!!
Thanks mate. Welcome
Congrats on your engagement!!🍻 The Nandji reveals everything😉
They do indeed :)
Congratulations on your engagement 😜😗😁🕍🍻💈⛵
Peacock and horse 🤣🤣🤣🤣 dying here!
only buy a peacock if your neighbors are awful, good grief, they are a noisy lot!
bamboopeacock.com/Peafowl_Sound_Clips.html
Roosters are pleasant compared to these birds... Ponies however are quite nice. Everyone needs a pony, not a Shetland though as some bite.
Congrats on your engagement!!
Thank you
I watch this channel for the Aussie's smile and the scenes of the Brit pretending to be sleeping beauty - lol. Love the channel -started watching when you visited the Wynns and for some reason I have found the canal episodes the best.
Thanks mate
Such detailed information.
Really good presentation and surprised that people are allowed out with no sailing experience you get this with some of the nutcases out on the Solent mid Summer in their multi million pound speed racing boats
Thanks for posting.
So pleasant watching you, Terysa, watching Nic's expressions/ emotions... fun.
Nic, yes...
peacock and horse makes me think...
Well, ah yes...
Maybe feeling a channeling / canaling connection to Monty Python, maybe an episode around barge life?!
RIP Terry Jones.
Cheers, SV Good Karma.
Did you guys experience clogging of the through holes with all that mud and debris? Oh, and by the way the bit of the peacock was 👉🏼🙄😳🤣😂😂👈🏼 thanks for sharing,; I especially love the laughs that I get from some of your videos! You guys are funny....
I thoroughly enjoyed this series..by far your best work!
To create a feeling that we the viewer..are on the journey with you guys was simply outstanding.
Just adored the way you captured the countryside as it flowed by was superb.
How you top this series will surely be a daunting task indeed.
Thank you both for taking me to the French canals..I had a blast!!
Best Wishes
Aussie Mick
Just watched the latest Nandji episode, so came over here to say congrats Nick & Terysa.
cheers mate. Welcome to our channel
@@sailingrubyrose Been sub'd to your channel for a while, Just haven't commented much, clicked like plenty of times 😁
Just heard your news from Yosh. Congratulations!!!
might have missed it, I'm going on beer #3, but I wanted to take huge rips up and down the canals in my jet boat at 70-80 MPH and saw the speed limit was 5 knots. Took all the fun out of it. Never saw the speed limit mentioned.
Great storytelling. I love your videos, but this episode was like I was there experiencing the crazy stuff. Casey Neistat always says the story is king. You both did a great job answering questions and relaying experiences (like wrong coins and crazy people hitting you and the mast). Really interesting. I enjoyed you canel videos and I was able to visualize (along with your footage) of what it was like.
We have a four part series on our channel about acquiring our 356 and I wish that I had filmed more. Really enjoyed the stories and look forward to more. Thank you. Heidi
LOL Nick,
I guess we won't be seeing you on the Norfolk Broads anytime soon then, July/August seems to bring out the "special stupid" there too.
Loved all your journeys so far, keep on keeping on!
Best wishes from blighty
They not exaggerating! I have done canal du midi in a hire boat( with a friend with lots of boat handling experience!) and their are people that literally go from hitting one side of the lock to hitting the other side, its crazy. Some form of boat handling as a prerequisite should be a must. It is an amazing experience though, just don’t go in the height of summer.
hi there went transport cargo in canals and river is the size and weight is big that road most canals what need is barge which take mast and have nice business like the old days
Hello I like Carcassonne Francia. Enchanted. Saludos
Great videos and information. Thank you!
Makes me want to travel the French Canals.
What would you say was the most popular kind of boat you saw along the canals?
Knowing what you know now what would you have done differently if doing this trip again?
Very informative. Thanks. I'm taking my boat, a 12m motor launch, through France this summer. Wish me luck. :)
Ah take your time Mate, it’s amazing
@@sailingrubyrose - Yup. I have. friend flying in from America to join me for the trip. The plan is to get to The Med, then turn left and figure out what to do about the Brexit regulations. :/
Bonita and Yosh just broke the news!! Congrats! Um..., Nick, was it an off-budget expense? I am happy for you! Yeah.:¬) Webhead USA
Just looked up those rental boat companies. I wish I could holiday in Europe and do that. Okay, $10,000 for a month, but if I had it, it would be worth it. Of course, I don't have it, so I'll be looking forward to your next Q&A video.
Cheers!
Thanks to the both of you for all the info....I really hope you guys captured those incidents on camera 🎥, would love to see Nick telling those idiots off. We seem to have have the same temperament Nick and I....😂😂👍
Haha. Yeah the filming was difficult with a fork handle but n one hand
congratulations you two. i just heard from nandji. it's about time :-))
I just saw you two on another sailing channel 😎🍻 Congratulations! 🎉 on both things!
Cheers mate. Welcome and thanks
Well lived! I thoroughly enjoyed your reports of the travels and travails of canal cruising through France 👍😊 I'd love to have the wherewithal to rebuild a PBR and cruise somesuch canals, but almost all of those craft were scuttled at the end of the Viet Nam War 😕
I would sincerely appreciate viewing some of those confrontational verbal abuse scenes, here on sailing yacht Ruby Rose, if available.
Me too :}
We did the Irish Limmerick river years ago, and I can fully appreciate the comments of the clueless users. But as you say, you can see them a mile off. Unfortunately that does not mean you can escape them.
And you passed just a couple of hours away from my place ! Think yourselves lucky
Congrats on the engagement, I just come from Sailing Nanji. Congrats !
Welcome mate, and thank you
@@sailingrubyrose Dittos from me, just caught it also. : }
Ealking cained. Wow!
You asked yourselves a question at the start about whether catamarans can go through the canals, but then didn't really answer it, so I'll give the answer here...
The answer is yes, but only for a few types. Of catamarans in current production only 2 can fit within the 5m maximum beam of the canal locks to get to the Mediterranean. They are the Gemini Legacy (which is uncommon in Europe) and the smallest Broadblue, the 346. The Broadblue 346 is specially designed to be able to fit at 4.85m beam. Larger catamarans can fit through the locks on the major rivers like the Seine up to Paris, but cannot go through to the Mediterranean.
Of older catamarans, the smaller ones like Heavenly Twins and Catalacs fit, and the Prout boats up to 37' also fit, like the Snowgoose, with a beam of 4.85m, and earlier model Geminis.
With a beam of 4.85m on the Broadblue 346 and the Prouts, the fit is very tight. There is not even space for normal fenders. Instead boards have to be used for fendering.
There is a channel here on youtube showing an old 4.85m beam Prout taken through France. Search on Sailing Kallisto. Once the first 5m width lock had been traversed and they had sorted out their fendering subsequent locks were no problem.
Very beautiful 😍👍
Is the secret out? Anybody check out the meet up between Ruby Rose and Sailing Nandji? Nick and Terysa have some explaining to do! :)
Nice information. Have wondered how similar the boat specs needed for the great loop in the US were in comparison to European canals. And if the same boat could be used for both.
Meldrew your looking very clean today , new razor
comedy Gold - episode full of Nick-rants ;-0
Wow! That's hilarious about the other boaters! Just like other drivers everywhere you go. Here in Minnesota, USA we have 10,000+ lakes and rivers - many of them very large, we see 1000's of boating accidents every year - many of them just at the boat launch before the fools ever get into the water! I watched one fool attempt to drive his new $85,000 Ski boat onto his trailer when he fell over backwards onto the throttle (yes, he was drunk) and hit the trailer with enough speed to drive the boat past the trailer and onto the roof of his new $70,000 pickup truck. But it got even worse! the boat then rolled off the top of the pickup and landed upside down on the concrete boat launch. We estimated the damage to be about $50,000 to the boat, trailer, and the truck. Be careful out there!
You guys need to make a blooper reel of all the bad snippers
We have mate. We now have two out.....
ua-cam.com/video/TIrsj7kxob0/v-deo.html
"Me guts" LOL !!
The twisty poles aren't universal in France. Some places issue a remote, some (like the canal du Nivernais) have lock keepers, and some were timed and you would have to call to reset the sequence if you stopped unexpectedly.
Just caught Sailing Nandji - CONGRATULATIONS on the ???? Super Happy for you. Waddya think of the whippit?
Pin balling off the banks as they come along! Makes one wish to have a potato gun filled with paint balls for retaliation. A really great video. I was wondering if live aboards on the French canals can have a wooden stove like they do in England or is that a no no in France.
Lots of info there guy's. Be great for folks if you could do a summary sheet or something. We don't think can say avoid the numpty's or the the French, (Pause for breath) ....... Holidays, LoL Great information video to complement the series. Sail Safe. Ant, Cid and the pooch crew...xx
We have sailing GBU, (most exploited ass award), Elayna from LaVegabond, (M.i.l.f.), Khiara from Millennial falcon, (who looks like a runway model), Captain Ricks Valentina, (I bet she’s a handful), and then of course the floating international hostel, Expedition Drenched, with its plethora of salty wenches, but for some reason I have a crush on Terysa, she's just so lovely, (you seem like a great guy too Nick and well deserving:) cheers.
Sorry for my comment in french but my scolar english is very far!..
Il y a eu plusieurs tentatives de percement du canal depuis l'Antiquité pour éviter le passage par Gibraltar, les taxes perçues par le Roi d'Espagne et les pirates barbaresques. Je connais bien l'histoire car c'est mon aïeul, le Marquis de Riquet, ingénieur hydrologue, qui a conçu, financé et fait creuser ce canal sous Louis XIV. Avant le creusement, presque 10 ans de recherches hydrauliques et de déviation de tous les ruisseaux pour alimenter ce canal en eau. C'est aussi lui qui imagina les écluses courbes en forme de ballon de rugby pour résister à la pression de l'eau.
Il a également conçu le pont-canal.
Riquet a vu la fin de son oeuvre mais il est mort ruiné quelques mois plus tard car il n'a pas pu se se rembourser en percevant les droits de passage.
Ce projet fut le plus titanesque au XVII ème siècle en France avec la construction du château de Versailles.
Désolé pour le commentaire en français mais mon anglais est très lointain! Votre compte-rendu est très bien fait!
Really enjoying watching your series as our draught would never allow us that route . Was there a reason why you chose canal du medi over the rivers & canals to go via Paris? Sailing gently do very informative videos on the canal systems. We like the idea of shipping mast between Rouan and port Napoleon so it doesn't get damaged.
29:08 Nick, you need to save this clip, because you aren't going to hear those words very often!!! Hahahaha!
great inspiration! thanks! Did it cost anything to use the locks?
All your videos have been great. Really enjoyed your canal passage. My sailboat will never fit. Nice see Teres butt in spandex. Keep having fun
Most hire canal boats don't have holding tanks :-) so high summer can get a little stinky.
Loads of great info. I hope you are still taking questions. Due to a pathetic pension, I is extremely unlikely that this is an adventure I could embark on. However, is it possible to cycle the entire canal system, staying at hostel;s, etc? Thanks!
Really really ENJOYED the "Sailing Nandji" episodes--- 01-27-20---- congratulations to the both of you ! GREAT !
Cheers mate
Because you motored the entire way, I think I would rent a motorboat that has all the amenities as your sailboat, and not have to bother with all the work of taking down the mast and all the other preparation needed.
would loved to have heared the old Nick voicing this, Nick 2.0 with the effing and geoffing filter on (Thanks UA-cam Gestappo) is very informative and entertaining but not as side splitting as potty Nick 1.0 :)
good episode, when i did the mast up route i was lucky that it was off season and there was no one who didn't know what they were doing, in summer in the canals it gets uncomfortable with the drunk idiots. Amsterdam tried to ban drink driving on the canals and the people complained so much they scrapped the law.. its a joke.