We spent a week living on a canal boat!
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- We spent 5 days living on a canal boat and it was our first time boating...ever! Join us as we get to grips with slow life on the water, the ups, the downs, and the reality of canal boating on the British waterways.
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We went on a canal boat holiday when I was a child and it was wonderful ! My Dad did all the steering and my sister and I were on lock duties with supervision from Mum. All was peaceful and calm until Dad accidentally beached the boat , ooops. My sister being the eldest took the pole and pushed the boat away from the bank BUT she leant in too far which resulted in something akin to a scene from Monty Python with her eventually falling prostrate into the canal 😂. She flailed and screamed all while Dad was shouting to her to just STAND UP as the canal was all of 2 feet deep. Ahhhh the memories , good times 🤣.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 what a cracking story
That's definitely on my bucket list. Looks like you had a great time 😊😊😊😊! Thanks for sharing. Lauren, Florida, USA
You made a great little mini documentary- thank you!! 😊
It looks idyllic. Simply lovely. Yes, I would very much like to try it.
Try it for sure, actually want to buy and live on one! 😊
Been on many canal boat holidays - just love them!
How beautiful 🧡🧡🧡
Just found your channel. Having a wonderful time wallowing in nostalgia and remembering back to my childhood growing up in the 50’s. My family also used to shop in thrift shops or at auctions, and our house(s) were all filled with vintage secondhand furniture. I also went canal boating lots of times in my teens. Great times! Thank you for the memories. 😊
My stag do was on a canal boat. My friends were very sceptical at first but it turned into one of the best stag dos we had done!
Thank you so much for bringing us along ❤
❤Always looks Lovely My uncle and his family hired one in the 1970s for a Holiday ❤
i have been on a short canal trip
but never like that❤
now i am to unsafe on my feet with my hips ect and sciatica and being a widow of 66 ❤not for me now ❤
I could feel myself relaxing just watching this!
I haven’t been on a canal boat, but I have been lucky enough to have spent holidays on the Norfolk Broads. And I have to say, being on a boat out on the water is one of the best holidays I’ve ever had.
Good old jack needs to book his ideas up 😂 great video THANK YOUUUUUU
I used to live on a boat for 2 years (not a narrowboat and it was a tidal river) and if the maintanance with boats wasn't so crazy, I would do it again in a heartbeat. I loved my boat so much and still miss the freedom you have, despite the small space indoors and all the daily chores that are just not the same as chores in a house. Maybe some day I'll manage a canal boat holiday, that would be fantastic :)
This is the cutest video ever
Thanks for the historic information. I'm from Venezuela and your videos are so informative and well done. I'm learning more and more of the British way of living thanks to you.
Cheers
Thanks for sharing, it looks dreamy but challenging. There was an American artist named Harlan Hubbard who spent a good part of his life living on barge/houseboat with his wife and traversing the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers before settling into a self built house in Kentucky. Recently saw videos of a gentleman traveling around the Great Lakes on a smaller flat boat that really requires a lot of strategy and planning with regards to knowledge of weather and wind . So great to visit places you know you will never get to.❤
oh poor Jack 😮❤❤you look happy together ❤❤😅Nice friend to let you take their boat for a week ❤❤
Just found your longer form content and really enjoying it!
Ahh thank you!!!
We live in SW Norway and had 2 canal boat holidays years ago! What fond memories! My daughter and I got really good at doing the locks! What fun, but hard work! The best vacations we've ever had! I dream of doing it again sometime, but not with those prices!
What a beautiful and peaceful video of your journey 💕💕💕. You two are LOVELY!! This would be something my late husband and I would have done on our next visit to the WONDERFUL ENGLAND!!! Thank you for sharing 🙏💕💕💕💕
Thanks for the video. What a neat experience. I appreciated learning about the ins and outs of this part of British life we see portrayed on British tv shows we watch. It's very different in real life just like everything else. I recently found your channel and am enjoying the content. Thanks again!
I live in the states and I don’t believe many people have canal boats (we do have canal water ways so people can take their “regular” boats on them) I’ve watched a few UA-cam videos of people with their canal boats and I must admit they fascinate me, I would love to try that. By the way the swans were acting, and being so friendly I gather people must give them munchies.
I could easily live on a boat. I love sailing and other activities surrounding being by the water. In this video I am envious of you two. I am new to your site but enjoying it very much. I whole heartedly agree with your content. Take care…don’t get wet!
We lived on a canal boat many years ago and it was best enjoyed in Spring and Autumn. In winter the canal froze and in the summer there were too many boats about
This is now on my bucket list!! ❤
Splendid. I did this years ago and it really is a marvellous way to relax.
Thank you for this narrative about your narrowboating experience. I’m researching buying one to live/work from which would mean leaving my home country (so ready to move away from the USA) as soon as I get everything I don’t need sold/given away. You would be surprised at the amount of live aboard narrowboaters who only focus on cruising and frivolous other things they do but don’t really give any actual insight about what it’s like to live aboard or work from their boats.
You should follow the channel The Narrowboat Pirate aka The Rum Wench (name of her deep draught boat with the most beautiful sounding 1960 something piston engine. Heidi is lovely, full of innuendo in a funny way and so down to earth about long term living and working on the canals. She shows her followers all the nitty gritty, the oil, the weed hatch, the having to get into the water to recover your phone! Life in winter. I’d say she’s essential viewing before you make the leap.
Well done with locks! It is a beautiful, slow way to travel
Thank you! ❤️
Beautiful ❤❤❤
Heavenly ❤
We have lived full time continuous cruising for three years now and could never imagine going back on land. Regarding your comment on the cost of hiring, this is the reason that every hire base that we have past this year are full of moored hire boats. I would suggest anyone wanting to hire might be able to cut a better deal by having a conversation with them. Just my thoughts.
Fantastic❤❤❤
I'm in Canada and I'd love to try that but the cost would be astrononical...lol.
We spent a week living on a canal boat!
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Girl this was so fun! More of these!
Fab holiday! Love the boat interior too. I’d love to hire a canal boat but it’s quite pricey. I almost started saving boat when I lived in London because the rent in shared houses was steep. It never happened because I moved away from London instead 😄
Here in South Carolina in the United States for a number of years I was in a relationship with someone with a 27 ft yacht. We frequently went boating on the creeks which are in the low country of South Carolina. Much of what you have written is comparable to boating in these title estuaries. I've long wanted to go on a canal boat in England. Bravo you for having the courage to do the steering, the lock opening and closing, and doing something fun and at a different pace.
Well, that was supposed to be "tidal"...
Oo looks like my comment was deleted, maybe because of the link? Sorry!! I'll rewrite without :) --- My nan grew up on the Worcestershire canals as a lock keepers daughter and wrote a book about it, you can still get it if you're interested in learning more (Lock Keepers Daughter by Pat Warner) - she lived on the canals from 1920s-40s and it's fascinating hearing the stories of what life was like, including her excitement when the Cadbury barges went by with chocolate out of Birmingham 😍 my dad (her son) now lives on a narrowboat just down the road from where she used to live so I loved this video!!
Facinating i definatly want to read the book
i bloody love this! ❤
How fantastic! ❤ I wouldn't do it by myself it differently a yed.
I was told growing up that one of my relatives was a dreyman working on the canal where I'm from. But, haven't found anything more about it unfortunately.
You were on the Trent and Mersey Canal were you not ?
I live in a village about three miles away up over the other side of the trees in the opening shots.
Did you moor up in Tatenhill and eat at the Bridge Inn ? They do great food ! I imagine then you would proceed along to Barton Marina which is a lovely place and of great benefit to the local community etc.
Personally I couldn't live on a canal boat, because it's too restrictive and closed in, but maybe strangely I would be happy living in a decent sized touring caravan. The difference for me would be the ability to go anywhere I wished and I have a classic 1972 Land Rover to tow it !
Hope you both had a lovely time cruising down the river on a Sunday afternoon ! 🎼🎵🎶
You are absolutely spot on with everything you said! ❤ 😊 and yes I know exactly what you mean, personally, I couldn't live on one permanently either!
Blimey! You did so well. I've love to do something like this, scares me slightly! Do you watch the Cruising The Cut UA-cam channel? David is great for all things like this! So glad you had a lovely time. 😁
Thank you, and no I haven't stumbled across that channel but will certainly check it out! Thank you so much x
This is my retirement plan. We were saving for a boat but then we had a little boy and his dinosaur collection would need it's own boat. Back to the retirement plan but it's a dream of ours ❤❤❤
😂 a boy after my own heart, I was obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid... still am 👀
I wish I didn't get so sick on boats I would live to try it but I just can't stomach it. 😢
Looks like you had a good time, question is who won the game of connect four?
Love your videos, I was wondering after your beauty secrets video if there were any more vintage brands that you can still buy today (food and home) that may still have the same packaging? I bought some wrights traditional soap and it got me thinking
Ponds cold cream? Anne French cleansing milk? Pears soap?
@powderandpaint14 thank you so much x
Lol that was a lot of wash. They can go faster than 4 miles an hour. But 4 mph is the fastest allowed.
What happened to Jack’s forehead?