😱 The CRAZY Canal Boats In London! Narrowboat Living - Volkswagen Touran Boat!

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  • Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
  • Thanks for watching! Our canal board game Argy Bargey:
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    In this week's video we (Tim and Sam) cruise on our narrowboat from Kings Langley to Uxbridge. We are on the Grand Union Canal. We see the famous Volkswagen Touran boat.
    Next week we chug into our marina mooring. Subscribe for weekly videos about life on narrowboat Mary L.
    Keep chugging!

КОМЕНТАРІ • 107

  • @garycallihan4206
    @garycallihan4206 2 роки тому +10

    From here in California, it is actually a pleasure to listen to this couple communicate lucidly, emote with enthusiasm, and converse with spontaneity. Here at home, we have a paralyzed and digitized collective well known for grunts and squeals.

    • @irenedavo3768
      @irenedavo3768 2 роки тому

      Really!

    • @irenedavo3768
      @irenedavo3768 2 роки тому

      Thought Americans had lot to say!

    • @lowellirish
      @lowellirish Рік тому

      @@irenedavo3768 We do! Just that 90% of us are too retarded to communicate effectively...lol

  • @Wlf5953
    @Wlf5953 2 роки тому +11

    A VW narrowboat,what a concept 😎. Would like the story behind that. Another fine cruise safe week. Cheers.

    • @Ul.B
      @Ul.B 2 роки тому +1

      Tax status: Sorn, MOT: Expired 23rd November 2012. A creative idea for further use.👍

  • @alicewilson1874
    @alicewilson1874 2 роки тому +3

    great ride, thank you, and yes I loved the wooden boat with stained glass windows

  • @ladyliberty417
    @ladyliberty417 2 роки тому +12

    Have to watch this again- there’s so much to see!! So many boats, can’t wait to see you reach London❣️ love that little cottage too- thanks Sam and Tim🥰

  • @shierahall2686
    @shierahall2686 2 роки тому +4

    Congrats on your 2 year anniversary! I remember Sam saying that she was going to paint Mary L, come Sam don't let us down i know how creative you can be!

  • @1950PeeJay
    @1950PeeJay 2 роки тому +5

    Hello both, lovely vlog and amazing variety of vessels Xx

  • @jonbiglowe3664
    @jonbiglowe3664 2 роки тому +2

    Another great video! Sam, I like the yellow boats too, perhaps Mary L could have a yellow makeover?

  • @weezerr2d283
    @weezerr2d283 2 роки тому +3

    Thanks for the video…I’m always enjoying your content…stay safe and take care !!

  • @goofe.washington953
    @goofe.washington953 2 роки тому +4

    This is one of the most chill narrowboat videos I’ve watched in a long time. Perhaps it’s the constant drone of the engine, or maybe it’s your peaceful demeanor. Either way, it was quite enjoyable.

  • @newyorknewart
    @newyorknewart 2 роки тому +2

    HA-HA, YOU DIDN'T SEE MY NEW SUBMARINE/WIDEBEAM LURKING JUST BEHIND YOU!
    VERY GOOD VIDEO - BE INTERESTING TO SEE SAM'S SISTERS NEXT TIME...
    (ARE YOU GOING TO MOUNT YOUR MECEDES LIMO ON YOUR STERN ONE DAY???)
    KEEP CHUGGING!

  • @MrSheckstr
    @MrSheckstr 2 роки тому +2

    Everybody Sing!
    We all live on a yellow Narrowboat, a yellow Narrowboat, a Yellow Narrowboat

  • @kdkuaana
    @kdkuaana 2 роки тому +3

    Hello from the USA, really enjoy the scenery. Great videos

  • @penneynoss9552
    @penneynoss9552 2 роки тому +4

    Hi Tim and Sam, lovey cruise. I always enjoy looking at the different boats and the names. Narrow boaters are very creative. Tim the wooden boat was beautiful, would love a tour inside and the story behind her. Thank you for sharing.

    • @irenedavo3768
      @irenedavo3768 2 роки тому

      Do not think they are reading comments!

  • @fp30e
    @fp30e 2 роки тому +4

    Hi Sam, Tim, Lovely Vlog again. Great cruising. Some very interesting boats on the canal. Yellow is interesting: I think it's a ladies thing. A lovely lady I knew 40 years ago, she loved yellow Minis (cars). The water looked nice and clean for a change. I'm always interested in your stats. With few locks in the next 11 miles, its anyone's' game. My bet is on you guys making the forecast mph average. Have a great week.Take Care

  • @richardlucas3724
    @richardlucas3724 2 роки тому +1

    Hi Tim and Sam we have missed you, I think we must have been in Denham marina when you past. We are in Tring now for a few days.
    Richard & Jean

  • @Lydibrown
    @Lydibrown 2 роки тому +2

    I've just finished this same stretch, am now in Little Venice, maybe i'll spot you around!

  • @nicholaskemp2246
    @nicholaskemp2246 2 роки тому +1

    Cracking video.
    Loved the trippy pattern from the reflection of the water under the bridge.

  • @roddmatsui3554
    @roddmatsui3554 2 роки тому +2

    Los Angeles here. This looks like a fantastic life to be living. I’m envious! Beautiful boat you’ve created. - By the way, I enjoy ambient sound recordings of different kinds, water sounds great in stereo, and this one video travels through so many environments, it makes me want to hook it up to a stereo system and really listen to the sounds.

  • @MartinJames389
    @MartinJames389 2 роки тому +10

    Watford, Chorley and Rickmansworth didn't look like London because they're not. They're all outside the Greater London boundary. Near Rickmansworth you had the London Borough of Harrow on the left bank of the canal and Hertforshire on the right for a bit, then you had Hertfordshire on both banks until a few miles after Rickmansworth, when you crossed the Greater London boundary, but into Hillingdon, not Harrow.
    People think the M25 is the London boundary. In some places it is, in others it's pretty close, but there are a few bits of London beyond the M25 and some quite big chunks of not-London are still inside the ring of the M25. You were cruising one of those slabs of not-London for quite a while.

  • @ingridlow6959
    @ingridlow6959 2 роки тому +2

    Great episode xx

  • @henrywilliam8506
    @henrywilliam8506 2 роки тому +2

    Hi Sam and Tim, another great vlog as always. Just one thing, could you please keep the captions up a little longer.

  • @johnworboys6435
    @johnworboys6435 2 роки тому +3

    I was looking hard to see the barge Slow Patrol and fellow Utuber The boat that James built but alass l didn't spot it 😎😎😎

  • @PeteEllson5656
    @PeteEllson5656 2 роки тому +2

    Great video. Beautifully crafted. Very much enjoyed this and looking forward to the next one. Thanks for sharing.

  • @henrybiglowe6409
    @henrybiglowe6409 2 роки тому +1

    Some of those canalside houses looked nice, bet they're worth a few bob though. The car on stern is certainly novel! 🙂

  • @julieanneroberts4752
    @julieanneroberts4752 2 роки тому +1

    Weird, wacky and wonderful boats 🛶
    Also loved the thatched cottage 🏡
    And the wooden boat 🤎
    Uxbridge looks & sounds posh 😊
    Keeeeeep chugging 😘

  • @lynstoneham
    @lynstoneham 2 роки тому +2

    Awesome boats

  • @justmeEnglandUK
    @justmeEnglandUK 2 роки тому

    Liked the boat dry dock . Genius idea

  • @judithmallinson5178
    @judithmallinson5178 2 роки тому +2

    Congratulations on your 2nd boativersary 🥂🎉. Great vlog as always! Always love seeing all the different boats on the canals - that's what makes life interesting! Xxx

  • @TM1Alan
    @TM1Alan 2 роки тому

    OK That was fun!! Thanks for letting me tag along.😁😎

  • @buzzukfiftythree
    @buzzukfiftythree 2 роки тому +4

    Enjoyable video guys, thanks. We discovered when doing family history research some years ago that my Great-great Grandfather drowned in the Grand Union Canal at Rickmansworth in 1891. He was a retired police sergeant and the inquest recorded an open verdict, so did he fall in, did he jump in, or was he pushed in? Nobody will ever know!

  • @downhilltwofour0082
    @downhilltwofour0082 2 роки тому +7

    The very first boat looks like something one wouldn't be surprised to see Captain Jack Sparrow standing at the helm! When passing an opposite traveling boat, who has the right of way? Logic would suggest to me, the boat going down-stream would have it.

    • @robw7676
      @robw7676 Рік тому +1

      No upstream/downstream on canals - you stick to the right and give way to boats who are closer to any width restriction than you on things like narrow bridges.
      Downstream has the right of way on rivers, you stick to the right and pass left side to left side unless maneuvering - but common sense applies in terms of more maneuverable boats giving way to less maneuverable ones - you wouldn't blithely plough on in a moderately sized powered boat on a river if confronted by anything bigger than a dinghy under sail on the "wrong" side of the river heading upstream tacking into the wind, you apply some courtesy as it is much easier for you to alter speed or heading to avoid them. Most river and canal users are very courteous and polite.

    • @downhilltwofour0082
      @downhilltwofour0082 Рік тому +1

      @@robw7676 Thank you!

  • @lowellirish
    @lowellirish Рік тому

    We all live in a yellow narrow boat...a yellow narrow boat.... a yellow narrowboat... sing it! We all...

  • @MartinJames389
    @MartinJames389 2 роки тому +4

    I bet some of those "abandoned" boats aren't really. I know someone who lived on a boat which looked abandoned, and wasn't navigable, but was their home for at least 3 years. There's lots of stuff the CRT either can't control, or doesn't try to, in certain places in and near London. Yet in other parts they're heavily on the case.

  • @jerrodbeck1799
    @jerrodbeck1799 2 роки тому

    I watch quite a few cruising in the cut channels and this paint job is by far the best!!!

  • @tangbesitangbesi7009
    @tangbesitangbesi7009 2 роки тому

    The scenery was absolutely gorgeous

  • @Lego6980
    @Lego6980 2 роки тому +1

    Very enjoyable. Thanks

  • @charliegardner6804
    @charliegardner6804 2 роки тому +1

    Great video thanks for sharing 👍.

  • @oneantasgreathouse1318
    @oneantasgreathouse1318 2 роки тому +5

    It’s so sad to see the abandonment of so many boats on the waterways there

  • @leonlegion
    @leonlegion 2 роки тому

    ... Great video 😁 . I built a Ship with a Land rover wheel house , mini clubman front cabin and a caravan section in the middle . Also had jaguar jet droptanks as variable geometry outriggers . Lived aboard for over 15 years 😉...

  • @wdoll3783
    @wdoll3783 2 роки тому

    Great Video, absolutely amazing little white cottage in the start of the Video. So fun watching this one, people are creative and someone likes VW 's. Safe Crusing and "Keep On Chugging. " 😃👋

  • @boxedupchevystyle8244
    @boxedupchevystyle8244 2 роки тому +4

    Once again, thanks for the trips out about town. (from the US).
    It's good to hear that you guys will still be Chugging next year. Any hint on a route yet? Thanks

  • @datathunderstorm
    @datathunderstorm 2 роки тому

    Awww! You two are so sweet! Yeah, you got me, I subscribed…!!!
    p.s. Live in Alperton, not far from the Grand Union Canal, used to watch the boats go by. Intriguing way of life I’ve always fantasised about. I’m hooked….!!!

  • @carolinefiler5506
    @carolinefiler5506 2 роки тому +1

    There are some great boats out there love the vlog take care

  • @michaelwhite8031
    @michaelwhite8031 2 роки тому +1

    The Tesco''s you passed should have a canal boat drive through :)

  • @nickevans1698
    @nickevans1698 2 роки тому

    Great Vlog Guys, looking forward to the finale 👏🏻👏🏻 keeeeeep on Chugging. 👍🏼😎

  • @mickbeeee
    @mickbeeee 2 роки тому

    Nice video - I love the canal and have not yet seen the part which goes into London yet - thanks .... BTW I recognise the fella in the boat ... maybe at a rave :-)

  • @lindabiglowe3135
    @lindabiglowe3135 2 роки тому +3

    Lovely sail into London. I liked the little cottage too, I noticed it was for sale. Did you look up the price?

    • @Silkytoaster
      @Silkytoaster 2 роки тому +2

      Yes I wondered on the price too.

  • @namesake-mx9nl
    @namesake-mx9nl 2 роки тому +2

    I suppose at 2am when you and your mates are blind drunk , it might seem like a good idea to weld your volkswagen to your boat , otherwise , absolutely barmy , but we're glad somebody did .

  • @barefootbob1269
    @barefootbob1269 2 роки тому

    that looks like some testy navigation with not much room for error. Hard to believe so many abandon boats just sitting there.

  • @garylydement5020
    @garylydement5020 2 роки тому +3

    Is it just me or do others think Sam and Tim's vlogs always look slightly jerky?
    Like the frame rate is slightly off

  • @edwardsp1916
    @edwardsp1916 2 роки тому

    Just found your channel, this is the first video I viewed. Very enjoyable watch and some amazing boats. Happy boating!

  • @daviemaclean61
    @daviemaclean61 2 роки тому

    That first one. For many years there was a boat on the River Leven in Dumbarton with a Morris Minor traveller "cabin" similarly grafted on, and a few miles away near Clynder a small coaster with a Scammell truck cab (the old corrugated iron looking one) as the wheelhouse! ;-)

    • @chuggingalong
      @chuggingalong  2 роки тому

      Ah very interesting, sounds cool. Thank you Davie. Keep chugging

  • @MikeBSc
    @MikeBSc 2 роки тому

    I remember seeing these boats last year!

  • @floatybyboaty
    @floatybyboaty 2 роки тому +1

    If you get chance, come down to the River Adur at Shoreham By Sea, i'll buy you lunch.
    There are houseboats made up with all sorts of contraptions.

  • @mv4463
    @mv4463 2 роки тому +1

    Well that was a interesting car/boat 🤔

  • @yvonneajackson
    @yvonneajackson 2 роки тому

    Watford is where I live, if I had known you were passing through I would have said go to D20 in Queens Road it's a board game cafe, you could have introduced them to Argy Bargy!

  • @marksaunders4149
    @marksaunders4149 2 роки тому +1

    Have you seen ‘the trotters’ yellow car on the back of an nb? Its there somewhere. Good vlog guys.

    • @555promonkey
      @555promonkey 2 роки тому

      It’s on the Peak Forest Canal, hopefully they will visit there as it is a beautiful stretch of canal and Bugsworth Basin has to be visited :-)

  • @Lego6980
    @Lego6980 2 роки тому

    Thanks

  • @pauldooley756
    @pauldooley756 2 роки тому

    That made me laugh “Chugging” down the river . That’s cool I say cruise but Chug seem to fit better.

  • @GrahamHazlehurst
    @GrahamHazlehurst 2 роки тому +1

    Like the videos but get dizzy from the camera movement and camera frame rate lag in a lot of the video.

  • @KircheYard
    @KircheYard 2 роки тому

    Saw this boat in Hemel... did think Whisky Tango Foxtrot

  • @emgee44
    @emgee44 2 роки тому

    It seems there’s a lot more boats on the canals nowadays, I live in Bow with Limehouse Cut around the corner, there’s some new pontoon moorings along there now, It’s a lot busier, which I suppose is a good thing. I also work near Walthamstow just off the A406 near Cooks-ferry roundabout where you have the River Lee Navigation, lots of boats along there too. It’s not the prettiest of places so I guess the mooring fees must be cheaper or none at all, not sure how that bit works.

  • @trevorsbarkingmadchannel4501
    @trevorsbarkingmadchannel4501 2 роки тому +1

    Great vlog and really interesting one too. Are u going on the Thames once in London ? Best wishes

  • @ianandrews6890
    @ianandrews6890 Рік тому

    To have a trip average speed over the whole 205 miles of 1.5 mph ; the boat would have to cover the remaining 11 miles at an average speed of 16.6 mph . So the average will probably be close to 1.42 mph , but still a creditable performance given all the distractions along the route .

  • @craigw111
    @craigw111 2 роки тому +2

    It's not a touran! It's A Sharran (Sharon)!

  • @JimmyBoogaloo
    @JimmyBoogaloo 2 роки тому +1

    those punks with the car just use it for storage. insane. i'd help them clear it out. whatever. glad you enjoyed the time, slowcoaches ;o)
    agreed: uxbridge > watford

  • @henrybiglowe6409
    @henrybiglowe6409 2 роки тому

    Tye dye windows 🪟 🤣

  • @peterc5167
    @peterc5167 2 роки тому

    Looks brilliant. I would be nervous about safety mooring in such areas. Are burglaries a problem for moored boats? Do you get problems at night when stopping next to a tow path?

  • @julesswales1535
    @julesswales1535 2 роки тому +1

    Love your videos but I wonder why you don’t film more of yourselves live rather than adding the comments after?

  • @maverickcruise99
    @maverickcruise99 2 роки тому

    Love the VW what mpg does it return does it still require tax insurance and mot lol.

  • @tomlompa6598
    @tomlompa6598 2 роки тому

    Looks sorta cool, but it's travel is limited because of that. It'll never make it under low tunnels.

  • @samogon6969
    @samogon6969 2 роки тому +1

    Все эти людишки, в прямом смысле, гадят в этот канал. Британцы всегда были терпимы к вони.

  • @zerofox7347
    @zerofox7347 2 роки тому

    How quick will a narrow boat go if you rev it up?

  • @donaldsmith3337
    @donaldsmith3337 2 роки тому

    That Uxbridge doesn't look anything like the town (of the same name)we live in here in Ontario Canada. Lol

    • @chuggingalong
      @chuggingalong  2 роки тому

      Ah interesting! We didn't know there is one in Canada :)

  • @tangbesitangbesi7009
    @tangbesitangbesi7009 2 роки тому

    Controlling such a long boat on a stick rudder is no easy task, only the most experienced could manoeuvre it on such a narrow canal

  • @Demun1649
    @Demun1649 2 роки тому

    You didn't go past Jack's Lock, you went past Black Jack's Lock, a most unpleasant character from Harefield's past Great restaurant now fotunately.

  • @csababalint4699
    @csababalint4699 2 роки тому

    Please: how meter deep canals?

  • @alisonb4898
    @alisonb4898 2 роки тому

    Surely putting something like that on your narrow boat will restrict where you can travel.

  • @MarcelEling
    @MarcelEling 2 роки тому +1

    You always stay dry while steering in a car😀

  • @thomascking
    @thomascking 2 роки тому

    I'm surprised you didn't mention the sewage smell around those rusted boats. Wore a mask cruising through there, was really too much.

  • @thisislari7255
    @thisislari7255 Рік тому

    Eeeee blaci

  • @danielhartwig6333
    @danielhartwig6333 2 роки тому

    👍❤️🎲🇦🇺

  • @Videostufftas
    @Videostufftas 2 роки тому

    Started to watch then music spoilt it for me

  • @joshwood3462
    @joshwood3462 2 роки тому

    tie dye windows!?? ya dummy!

  • @ziyayalniz2812
    @ziyayalniz2812 2 роки тому

    KURBAGLIDERE JOINT TO METRO statıon

  • @henrywilliam8506
    @henrywilliam8506 2 роки тому +4

    Hi Sam and Tim, another great vlog as always. Just one thing, could you please keep the captions up a little longer.