141. Narrowboat cruise from Weedon Bec to near Gayton Junction on the Grand Union Canal
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Another little jaunt along the Grand Union canal in the narrowboat saw me departing from Weedon after a pleasant couple of days, and heading towards Gayton Junction.
On the way, I stopped to refill the water tank and met a lot of boats coming north from Stoke Bruerne after a big event that's held there every year. I end this vlog about a mile before Gayton so as to stop in the countryside.
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Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the UA-cam music library
Nothing better after a crummy day at work than a new cruise through the English countryside. Thanks for posting!
I do enjoy your adventures. I usually make myself a cup of tea and some biscuits and enjoy your vlogs. Good job David
You could sell counselor 'couch' time with your vlog. It is so darned relaxing. Thank you for another fine episode to unwind with.
You cracked the code for a good life, congrats! 👍🏽
6:31 ha ha you can absolutely see that he has that “I don’t have my glasses on” face.
With just a second or two of the “who the flip is that burke” face.
But the genuinely joyful smile on his face, once he recognised you was just brilliant.
🙂🐿🌈❤️
I have watched all your videos in the space of 3-4 weeks. I’m gutted I now have to wait for each new video. I’ve really enjoyed all of them. Keep them coming 👍
That was a pleasant 15 minutes, beautiful
We hired our holiday boat from Steve at Weedon Boatyard. Amazing service from Grand Union Narrowboats for a holiday hire boat. Just booked again for 2019 and can’t wait to get back on the water. Great Vlogs by the way. Thanks for sharing your journey.
Another great vlog as usual - please don't ever change your intro music, it is instantly calming and matches the whole tone of the video.
We used that Winding hole on our first narrowboat holiday, got it wrong the first time and the gentleman who lives in the house came and gave us some much needed advice :-)
This vlog is one of my favorites.
one of your better navigation videos,,,windy day,,,lots of colorful boats,,,tight squeezes at times,,,im surprised you managed it as well as you did. Lotsa options to bump against other boats, the canal sides, and docking areas!! You always make it look easier than it is! I saw many different types of boats, and creative paint options,,,,yours always looks the neatest of all. Thanks for working so hard for all of us who will never have the chance to do as you do....regards,
Great Vlog well produced looking forward to the next one.
the classics under the old bridge thats lovely
I am amazed at all the narrow boats along side the canal
It looks like a blast . hello from Nevada USA
Another grand video. Congrats on 35,000 subs.
Thank you!
Almost as many as Jono!😉
We’ve stayed on that caravan site 7:48 many a time and enjoyed watching the boats chug past. That winding hole is actually quite shallow, we’ve seen a few boats try to use it but bump their hull and move on elsewhere
I agree with your comments about the noise from the trains! One of my abiding memories of my Christmas on the K&A was the trains. The west of England line runs adjacent to the cut all the way from Bath to Reading, so one is never more than a few hundred yards from it. I was lucky enough however, to see "Tornado" as she steamed along, looking magnificent in her cream and royal blue livery. I was able to forgive the noise intrusion after seeing that! xx
Ah, what a magnificent sight!
Yet again another LOVELY Journey. Thanks.
So many quaint gardens along the canal...lovely!
Always a pleasure to travel with you. My wife loves your boat!!!!
Me and my two long haired doxies would just love this.............I'm jealous cheers
The boat at 12:00 is named "Corona" lol...i am in Belize, Central America, i have no idea how I came to find this channel but I love watching your videos, I hope one day to visit England and experience narrow boating on the canals and locks...and a Liverpool game as well...lol...I luv Liverpool
I must say, the landscape views from the canals are just as I remember England from before, stunning.
The landscapes I see now are mostly rice paddies.
Quite different.
A thing I might remark on, maybe, that many boaters seem to be fond of "parking" in bendy spots, restricting the traffic flow.
I would park my boat there where I do not restrict maneuvering room.
But, please, vlog on, I love it.
I was shocked when you said you were doing five miles! Those classic boats were beautiful
Great to see you back in the saddle again.
Miss the fire side chats,your boat looks so cozy, I enjoy your videos very much
I do love David's blogs but I have to admit this is the first time I've noticed the in-camera narration (as I work my way through the back catalog) and it's not quite the same. There's something about the retrospective light-hearted snark that I really enjoy. Perhaps I will grow to like this new (to me) format but I'm not sure -- I'm not even sure I can put my finger on why I'm not in favor of it (other than my clunky guess above). [And yes, obviously this would be a huge time-saver so I can't be mad at our narrowboat bloke for his pragmatism]
Fear not, I return to the longer-winded production process of the scripted voiceover in 2019,; the "say as you go" was just an experiment with that cruising series.
Enjoyable cruise today! Thank you!
came home from a day of hard work (on my boat) it is my birthday, put your video on and instand relaxe kick back and now i wil cook dinner. thanks for all your video's.
i hope to be done in oktober and my boat wil go on the water. oooh i wil be so happy.
greetings,, Kitty.
Happy birthday!!
Happy Birthday Kitty!!!!! Many happy returns!!!
Thank You :D
Hi David! So interesting. At the same time that you filmed this, we were 'accidentally' staying at 'The Narrowboat' at Weedon and then remembered we had friends on the GU whom we hadn't seen for fifteen years. We got in touch and they were moored at Nether Heyford. After a great couple of days with them we ended up, a few weeks later, purchasing a Narrowboat they owned on the same mooring. It seems, we worked out, to be exactly the same time you were passing by. Crazy coincidence!
We have been loving binge-watching your vlogs together before bedtime! Look out for an old green Norseman 40' called 'Zion' next year!
9:34 its like the grass is bowing to you as you pass. How polite.. 😉
What a wonderful way to travel and live
Very true, saturation point, and the need for a cupper, usually will end my day or have me protesting to the skipper, of his duty warranting my break...
True the weather looks to be off, some what. In the near future! A demonstration is required, Assisted by our Anna! Winding hole shunter! Love the blog, Cheers
Hi David listening and watching your vlog and your right about filtering the noise out
I lived right next to a railway branch line and after the 1st 3/4
It became clear and ended up living there for some 25 years.
👍👌
I grew up in the lock house at Barrow upon soar,so i love your vlogs.
I liked the juxtaposition of the old technology, the boat on the canal, against the new train whizzing past.
professional as always thumbups
On the hose bib, the nut just below the handle is a packing gland. Just a small turn should stop the leak if there is any packing left in the gland. The screw you were trying to turn just holds the handle on the shaft. It works like the packing on your prop shaft but without the grease.
One of the amazing things I have noticed is many of the sections of canal you have been filming have been elevated, the normal thought when it comes to canals from the uninitiated is we expect them to be holes in the ground so to speak. The marvel of the English Canals is they did not limit their thinking to that concept and several Engineering marvels have been the unexpected. Canals which are ViaDucts. This is not just a marvel but has to be a bit scary on some of them especially when you thing when these marvels were built. We have a bridge here in Edmonton built of the save vintage of steel as the Titanic, any repairs on this bridge are an Engineering study and the Civil Engineering firms also employ the Engineering students at the local University as a practicum. I am sure the River Trust does the same to ensure the lessons learned on the Canals are not forgotten for the same reason. Cheers and again a very enjoyable and interesting Tour via your Blog
Not sure if you've seen this one yet: ua-cam.com/video/OL-gC0wOg_Q/v-deo.html
So great to have you posting cruising vlogs again, David. Cheers!
If you ever have a mind to do a bit of DIY at the watering points, that leaking tap can be improved a bunch by tightening the nut just below the handle. The plunger shaft has packing around it (similar to your boat's stern gland). Just tighten it a bit with an adjustable wrench and you'll have improved the canal infrastructure.
Cheers for that
Very good David , nice little trip , keep up the good work :-)
Not sure if you've been told yet, but the area at the bottom of the camp site at Stow was not a winding hole. The winding hole there Is just after the bridge next to the camp site.
The area you pointed out at the bottom of the camp site is full of sludge and i have seen a few boats get stuck in the mire there.
Hi, yes, cheers I misread the map when I recorded the video!
David please work towards producing your series for dvd CTC belongs on TV you are the water based Rick Steves. I look forward to every episode and your production is always top notch. Keep up the great work!
Brilliant !! you are back tracking our journey from Gayton marina to Brewood , we were naughty and moored on those posts just before the bridge at the start of the vid, only there for 5 mins though ( milk was required ). :-)
Great video of our current home turf as our share boat is based at Gayton. Took me a bit to stop screaming at the beginning of the video as you showed the scene of my unfortunate accident when I broke my ankle at the beginning of May. It was fun getting up the slope next to the bridge in Weedon as I had to do it on my bottom. Thankfully I am all mended now and looking forward to our next outing at the end of October.
Ouch! Oh my, at least the path up is concrete and not mud!
thanks for this wonderful entertainment cheers.
5:16 --- Taps like that just need the smaller nut underneath to be tightened gently to get the gland to squash around the shaft.
You are my favorite channel on UA-cam. I need to catch up on your more recent videos. Will you be spending the winter on your boat? Blessings from Florida. ❤️
Yes, I will! Cheers
I think I'd rather enjoy having a winding hole at the bottom of the garden; I could crouch down behind a bush and observe the narrowboats in their native habitat, and whisper earnestly about the behaviours I was seeing and pretend I was Sir David Attenborough.
Now that's funny!!
"Magical" indeed. I so want to do this when I have the money. I see why you wanted to make it your full-time life.
nice one, enjoying your cruising vids
very good! thanks for sharing!
Some nice countryside around that part of the canal, rather spoilt sadly by the noise from the trains which appear to be quite regular! Took my boat down there a few months ago :-) Always nice to recognise parts in other peoples videos
Hi David, Just my pet peeve but I think we should put this turning with the wind to bed. Just from a logical point of view it makes no sense. You could only turn on windy days and then only if the wind was in the right direction? What are the chances? I prefer winding as in windlass which seems distantly related to the German wenden meaning to turn round. Wikipedia has the following to say on the matter: "Another Etymology, however, is the Old English word for turn - "Windan", (pronounced with a short I (as in windlass, a handle for winding (long I) gears))[2]. Old English was in use up to and including the 18th century when the canals where built. Much UK canal terminology comes from spoken rather than written tradition and from bargees who did not read or write." Which I find much more persuasive than the wind theory. Keep up the good work. I love the atmosphere in these Autumn cruises :)
Time to forget the cares of every day life and get lost in one of your videos. Thank you.
perhaps a remote camera on the nose and a video screen aft for those angled blind turns
Grumpy Bumpkin won’t do at all, a good G&T is in order here!
inspirational. : )
Fascinating ballast balanced bridge scaffold configuration, if that's what it's called and a shame if it isn't.
It made me laugh when you said good morning and they completely ignored you 😄 or at least looked as if they did.
Thanks mate!
Awesome vlog, beware the winding hole by the camping it has pilings just under water surface 😳✌🏽
That's very useful to know! Thanks
Don’t be grumpy! That’s about my limit at work too! LOL
Seriously contemplating buying a canal barge. Are they safe enough to lock up and leave. I know it all depends upon what security measures you have in place and areas to appease. I will have travel to work and leave it for 8 hours a day. I just love the Canal life so relaxing.
Depends where you moor, who's around you, for how long, what time of year etc. Many, many factors. You can add things that text you if they detect motion in the boat etc
Thanks!
Thank you very much! 😊😊
nice bit of canal.
7 swans a swimming ❤
While watching you motor past some of these marinas and other groups of boats, I can't help wonder if there is a little "length snobbery" among narrow boat owners. Do the 60+ foot owners look down on the 45' owners for example?
No, not that I'm aware of. Size doesn't matter :-)
I really love the next village, I think that its called Poodon.
I think it's called Weedon ?
I'm surprised that the narrow boats track so well without keels, center boards or leeboards.
Probably because big L/B ratio
Another nice video. Have you thought about getting a wired or wireless camera to put on the front of the boat to make navigation easier?
Not for me, I prefer to keep looking ahead and around rather than down at a screen, plus a lot of screens are quite hard to see in daylight, then you've got cabling and waterproofing issues etc.
@@CruisingTheCut Remote control from the bow then. Wow that would be weird.
This makes me wonder if anyone uses cameras on the front of the boat to see if anything is coming around corners. Something kind of like a backup camera on cars.
Random thought No.27 -
I’ve often pondered as to why using coal as a fuel for domestic heating, never really took hold here in Australia.
I mean, obviously our climate is milder, but during winter, and in certain areas people have wood burning stoves and/or fireplaces etc.
I’ve personally lived in a house in the south west of Western Australia, and I had 2 fires going all day at certain times of the year.
One was a smaller Squirrel stove which I absolutely loved and the other was a larger slow combustion stove that could also heat up the hot water as well as be used for baking and cooking.
I along with everyone else in the area, as well as anywhere I’ve lived or been with a fireplace/stove exclusively used wood.
Coal wasn’t even offered as an option. I wonder why that is. 🤔
Although, now that I think about this, I have seen a kind of charcoal product available mainly in summer, for using with barbecues.
Here endeth my random thought sparked by seeing the smoke coming out of the little boat chimney, and Mr Johns exclaiming that it’s smell was glorious.
I too enjoy the smell of wood fires on cold winter evenings.
I’m only guessing that a coal burning fire would not smell so nice - although, to my shame, as a coal miners daughter, I have little to no experience of what that would actually smell like.
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Coal definitely doesn't smell as nice
Thanks David.....could almost smell the countryside.
Hi from Queensland. Why don't you collect rain water on your narrow boat ?
Lovely :-)
I looked in your Q&A but for naught. Do you filter your water when you fill up or on board?
I don't, no.
7:50 mark looked like a camp ground..
Are there any , many along the canals you travel.
So you could really stretch out, star gaze ✨🌌
May you stop anywhere along the canals & sit,
Spend the night. More as you say it ❓😊
Safe boating 🇬🇧☀️
I’ve seen some, yes
As always 👍 interesting.
Summertime narrowboat cruising... nice. Whats the temperature situation for narrowboats in the summer? How well does the water cooling do against the sun heating up the boat? Cloudy/murky water absorbs more heat, as does shallow water, so I wonder what the canal temp is in a sunny stretch of countryside.
If it was me, I would put a couple more solar panels on the roof, if not just to provide shade for that part of the boat
I've no idea what the water temperature is. No space for more panels though.
Hello David, You had mentioned the winding holes for turning around. Having just spent a week on a 45 ft sailboat which had bow thrusters, I was wondering if any posh narrowboats are equipped with such to aid in turning and maneuvering?
Yes lots of more modern boats have them although they're not strictly needed, just a helping hand occasionally.
When you say you have to stay for certain amount of time on locks... who’s going to tell you to move? And how do they know when you arrived? :D
You shouldn't spend any time on the locks other than the time spent transiting the lock. For all canalside moorings, the CRT have towpath rangers who note overstaying boats.
it would appear thatthe narrow boat fraternity is enjoying a huge resuragence
How so? Genuinely curious.
just from the observations on your channel and the two ladies channel, and really the amount of narrow boats that are on the canal and is such good nick
According to the CRT the number of boats registered is up slightly this year on last, to about 35,500 or so I think, up by about 800 on the previous year.
When does a bridge become a tunnel?
An interesting philosophical question!
Recon the bridge, bridge the gap required for crossing with other transport, Where tunnel does not.
When you go over, it's a bridge. When you go through, it's a tunnel. Simples! Excuse the meerkat reference...
Take away the roads and trains. It is another World.🇦🇺👍🍷
Aren't you mean with your Swan food......we've all seen the tuck you keep in the boat.......c'mon give a little, Bill Oddie would have done!!!!!!! :-))))))))
I'm not a fan of swans, they're very grumpy birds!
Hungry birds usually are plus those were looking after their cygnets!. One question I have off bird topic is how safe do you feel just mooring up in some of these quiet places? Are there many problem area's or are they known places and tend to be avoided?
hear hear! Having grown up in Stratford watching them attack any Duck that looks in their direction and multiply to take over the river I've never liked them, but your the first person who's agreed with me!
@@CruisingTheCut, you could perhaps feed them your excess rice pudding; it must be causing ballasting problems by now.
Mostly safe. Depends, you tend to look and see what you think. There are parts of London that are known for itrouble for example and some bits of other canals that people warn each other about. But it's a bit random, just as break-ins of houses are.
David: are you keeping the name of your boat out of the vid deliberately? I was reminded by seeing the boat with the No3 on the side and knowing that yours has No1 but I don't recall ever seeing the entire name of your boat on one of your vlogs
I used to but no longer do.
Greeting from Ont Canada where we wish we had a canal system like yours.
As you were passing a large blue boat you said he was on the off? Side and was very rare. It was a 14 day stay over. What did u mean by that?
Offside ie the non-towpath side.
Wonder what the reaction would be if rather than "Dead slow" you put up a sign say "Ahead flank" :D
Hahahaha
I saw them and thought "Ramming speed!!" 😎😆
If I had a narrow boat, a potential name would be Ludicrous Speed.
what is the green pole on the roof used for?
Hope you don't mind an unrelated question... Saw your vlog where you blacked the boat yourself using Intertuff 16. We are considering having ours blacked with the same product - how is yours holding up? Would you recommend it? Many thanks - enjoyed your vlog as you went passed our marina at Heyford Fields 🍷🍷
Hi. Hard to tell, unfortunately, until I next get the boat out again and have a look! I believe Intertuff is widely used. My concern was that each coat should have the full drying time but what a lot of marinas and wharfs do is slap it on as quickly as possible and you're back in the water the next day (almost!) which may render it less good. I did one coat a day plus another day for final drying.
Cheers
Railways were deliberately built alongside canals to steal their trade. Many railway companies bought up canals and neglected them.
Here in the Northeast US a lot of canal companies got into the railroad business and used the properties they owned along the canal to build the rail line. And promptly neglected the canals.
12:03 "corona" in 2018 😂😂😂
Do you need to add any sort of sanitizer to the water tank periodically to kill bacteria?
I probably should but I don't. On the other hand, I only drink from the tank after it's been boiled and I keep a separate 5L jug for drinking as well.
Weedon is an interesting place at the junction of rail canal and two major roads (The A45 east/West Saxon road and the A5 Roman Watling Street. www.blisworth.org.uk/images/Canal/rumbold.htm
I think from watching so many of your videos I remember the answer being no, but does your craft have bow thrusters?
Some do but not mine
Are Winding Holes all oriented in the same direction to take advantage of prevailing winds?
Crikey, no
Did you ever have to drain your water tank, and give it a good scrubbing?
Once. Not a scrubbing though, I couldn't physically get into it but I dropped chemical cleaner tablets in.