NARROWBOAT Living - How do we get OFF this LOG?! DEBRIS in the canal! Ep84
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- This week’s vlog sees us cruising our NARROWBOAT floating home from Foxton, along the Market Harborough Arm of the Grand Union canal. A couple of days before, we had been to BoatLife at Birmingham with our friends from Narrowboat Spudley, this is in a separate video, Episode 81, link below. Firstly, Julie has many huge puddles to negotiate, whilst walking to the road swing bridge. The bridge is renowned for being a really tough cookie and it definitely was! Luckily a boater walking his dog, doubled back to help and thank goodness he did too! After this, we had quite an EVENTFUL JOURNEY, what with lots of water coming off the land and detritus in the water……and speaking of the water, just look at the colour of it!! Martin can’t resist hitting that double hooter! 🙉 We have a huge bough of a tree right across our path that proves quite difficult to dislodge, but working together, we conquer the art of ‘LOGGING OFF’! There’s branches and logs galore, lots of DEBRIS, as we weave our way down to Market Harborough basin, where getting water is not straight forward and we find out there’s no room to moor either! We get a little frustrated by the mooring situation, but in the end, does our patience pay off and can we get moored…..?
Hope you enjoy this week’s vlog! xx😃
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You conquered the stiff swing bridge, a flotilla of debris and scarce moorings… and emerged victorious. Well done!🎉
Aww this is a lovely comment Trudi, thank you so much! xx
Must say i love that claxon, just like in the Laurel&Hardy films, always makes me chuckle!
Haha, glad you like it, it does make me jump sometimes lol, Martin loves it! 😃 Thanks Eric! xx
@@JulieandMartinonRIB lol, i can see why he loves it so much! Martin is known for it! 😜
@@tteric67 😂😂🤣
@@JulieandMartinonRIB lols, i guess after all these years it’s lovely that it still makes you jump! I’m jealous now! 😜
@@tteric67 hahaha 😝
"Martin, that was really stiff!" 🙈👌 😂😅😂😅😂
Haha, I know, I can’t believe I said that!! 🤦♀️🤣😝xx
Julie-1; Log-0! Julie wins🏆
Good job Julie
lol, that made me chuckle 🤭 It was a tough one! Thanks Deborah! xx
2 mails off me this week there is two things I always forget to mention to you first thanks for writing back every week it makes my week you feel like family or a very good friend second I love your boat always look new not a scratch on it means Martin a great driver or he painting boat every day and the shine must take hours see you next week
Hiya Nicholas! We love seeing your comment every week, we feel that we have a ‘UA-cam family’, a lovely group of friends, we feel so lucky! 🥰 Martin does really look after the boat well, he’s very careful when driving and we’re always conscious not to scrape the boat into bushes and trees. But with regard to our boat looking nice, thank you! Our boat only has two polishes a year, the rest of the time and most days, Martin uses a leather to wipe the boat down with water only. Have a lovely week, see you next time! xx
Such debris in the canal and manfully navigated by you both. Stay safe you two!
Yes, there was a lot of debris and we couldn’t get over the colour of the water! Thank you so much! xx
Best part of your Chanel is the enthusiasm and great locations and keeping it real!... Love it 👍
Aww thank you Steve, this means a lot! 🥰 We love this lifestyle, being able to move our home to different locations and the journeys, canals, seasons, views, and wildlife we see along the way, and we always try to show things as they really are. Cruising at 2-3mph is very peaceful and we hope this comes through on our videos. Obviously there are times when things don’t go exactly to plan, things do occasionally go wrong, and challenges are thrown our way lol. Thank you so much for your lovely comment Steve! xx
That's the best view of Electra that I have seen. Usually I just see the bow. I love that color. 😊 It was definitely a gorgeous day but the canal and the towpath were really a mess. It really does looks like spring is on the way. I've got crocus and daffodils up and soon there will be yard work. 🙄 That's the bad part of spring in a house. ❤
Hi Dorothy, Electra is a beautiful boat! It was definitely an eventful cruise, what with all the debris and water coming into the canal, and the colour of that water! 😳 It is lovely when everything starts springing into life and nature starts to wake up, but yes like you say, it means you’ll need to start tending to the garden again! Thank you Dorothy, we look forward to your comment each week xx
@@JulieandMartinonRIB Thanks. ❤ I love the color. First time I'd seen the pink hat. 😊 Yardwork 'ruins' so much of the year. I have so much cleanup to do but want to wait as long as possible because critters will be nesting under the pile of limbs and in the yard. I don't like to mow till the dandelions are gone because they support bees. 🐝
Stunning view at the end there - made the stress of mooring worthwhile. It must be so frustrating when boats leave huge gaps in between which waste space but not enough to moor in. Very thoughtless. The canal looked like liquid mud - horrible, plus of course all that mud and silt will eventually drop and clog up the canals. Between that and all the tree debris it’s no wonder so much dredging is needed. I’m constantly amazed how shiny and clean your boat looks despite the muddy water and rain! Have a great week guys xx
It was lovely mooring at the end, well worth the journey! The water was really mucky and that huge log was so heavy! So lovely to see your comment each week, thank you Mishka xx
Hi Julie, Hi Martin
Seeing how much soil has washed into the canals from the fields, do you not have to wonder how much fertilizer is being washed into the canals as well. If that is true then the fertilizer will encourage the growth of water plants causing the canals to become overgrown in weeds.
The soil being washed into the canals also gets me thinking about how much good soil the farmers are losing.
Mark
Alberta, Canada
Hi Mark, you’re right, there’s so much being washed into the canals which as you say will accelerate weed growth and also silt up the channel too! We’ve had so much rain though, it’s unbelievable, the ground is so waterlogged! Hopefully drier weather is on the way 🤞 so things will start to get better. Thank you so much Mark! xx
what a lovely mooring apart from all the puddles on the tow path. The swing bridge was a nightmare for you good job that kind man helped you. What a performance you had trying to dislodge the log from the bow of your boat. Still a very interesting video.
Hi Joan, it was a beautiful mooring spot! Those puddles were from the torrential downpour we had had overnight and that morning, I just didn’t think to film it d’oh! 🤦♀️ Boat people are lovely, that man actually saw me trying to do the bridge and turned around to come back and help me, so kind of him! You’re right, that log was huge, and so heavy! Thank you so much Joan! xx
Wow! That was a bit of an adventure Julie! Glad you finally made it to a decent mooring.
There’s some lovely scenery down that way. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻
Hi Phyllis, hope you’re both well, aww thank you, that was definitely an eventful cruise! It is lovely around here 😃 Thanks! xx
Us single handers are made of tough stuff 😅 stiff one, hee hee 😂 There has been so.much rain, the other morning I stepped off the boat to be greeted by a queue of animals all in pairs 😂😂 it's autumn for me as well Julie, the start of spring with the new life and the bird song is a close second 😊 you're more than capable at that tiller 😊 t##t gap 😡 stay safe ❤❤
LAT 2
You definitely are, I take my hat off to you all, I couldn’t do it! 👏 Yes definitely Autumn for me and Spring for Martin! 😃 I do try with the steering, but feel better Martin doing it lol, thanks matey! xx 😘
PS. What’s LAT 2 ? 🤪
Good to see you at the tiller! This is our year 😂. That #%*%# swing gate got me good too! It’s so ridiculously hard to pull and push at the same time! You were so lucky to have the lovely man to help. And that log was huge 😮
Lol, I wish I was a bit more confident at the tiller, maybe it will come with time 🤞 That swing bridge was a monster, so heavy, I was very lucky that chappy helped me! We couldn’t believe how big that log was, it really was stuck under the bow, it was a right job to shake it off! Thanks you two! xx
I was worried you were going for a swim in the canal trying to move that log Julie! 🫣 Good job you two, really enjoyed the vlog. 👍
Aww thank you for caring, there’s no way I’m going in that dirty water lol, not if I can help it! I did always make sure I didn’t lean too much, but that log was huge wasn’t it! Thank you Donna! xx
Wow, drums on a boat. Can't be that common 😂
No! We’ve never seen/heard that before, it sounded really good! 👍 Thanks Randy! xx
Lovely video as always nice to see the day's are getting longer Lovely hearing the birds singing 🎶 take care both of you x 😊
Hi David, yes it’s really lovely hearing the birds singing again and Spring literally around the corner, the clocks go forward in 3 weeks! Yay! xx
It was lovely to meet you guys and thank you for mentioning our meeting
Aww it was lovely to meet you both too, thank you so much! xx
If you ever get on the shropshire union canal by bridge 15 we have a caravan on the park get Martin to press his horn to say hi 😊😊 the vlogs are great 👍
Hi Jim, do you mean the green static caravans? We passed them last April and moored just before Countrywide Cruisers, it looks like a lovely park! 🤩
We’ll definitely hoot next time we pass! Thank you Jim! xx
@@JulieandMartinonRIB yes thems the ones say safe xx
Lovely video this week! Some of the swing bridges on the L&L are devilishly hard to swing. And every single one seems to have a different configuration: all manual, all electric, manual gates but electric swing, electric gates, manual swing. One I could not get to swing - a passerby helped me but we still couldn't get it. A mailcarrier came by and he got out to help. Says he has to do it all the time!
Hiya, yes that one was a tough cookie! We’re hoping to head for the L&L later this year, so we’ll keep this in mind! Thank you! xx
@@JulieandMartinonRIB We're headed back that way later this year as well!
That’s great, we may see you there! 😃 xx
Wow I will remember that swing bridge, so glad you had help and I need a good pair of welly boots, the rain really has made some towpaths disappear 😊. Thank you for a lovely vlog as always ❤❤❤
Hi Jacqui, yes winter boating after a lot of rain, you definitely need a good pair of wet weather boots for the towpaths! 🤪 How’s your boat coming along? Can’t wait to see it! See you soon xx
@@JulieandMartinonRIB I think it will be at crick so you can all have a good old gander 🤣❤️
@@jacquelineryde7339 oh wow, can’t wait! 😃 xx
Thank you for sharing your adventure! Another beautiful trip along the canal. Cheers!
Thanks Dan, hope you’re well xx
After seeing the canal there, it's safe to say ye need a mobile sawmill to help get rid o those logs! 😁 And I was almost thinking that ye'd end up in the water at one point, Julie, while trying to get that log out from under the boat, glad ye didn't though. ☺
Hiya, must admit, there was so much logs and detritus in the water, we were lucky to get through without any damage to the prop. I was always careful not to over-reach when trying to free that log, there’s no way I’m going to go into that dirty water! 😝 Thank you so much! xx
You 2 had a rough go this time around stay safe try nd keep dry still beautiful photography .
Hi Mike, it was certainly a journey with a few challenges lol, thank you so much! xx
I am loving and addicted to your vlogs, so relaxing and peaceful. Brilliant the way you incorporate black and white still photos. Please explain " toe paths" or is that " tow paths" obviously a narrow boat term. How easy is it to steer, I would think it's a real knack.. God Bless from New Zealand. Aroha and Kia ora
Hi Adrian, thank you for this lovely comment, can’t help thinking this may have been meant for our friends ‘One Day More Aboard’ as they use the b&w photos, but am hoping you find our vlogs relaxing too. The term ‘towpath’ refers to the now ‘footpath’ that runs alongside the canals. In the old days when the original traditional narrowboats did not have powered engines, they used horses to tow them from the path, hence the term towpath. The canals have been here hundreds of years, before trains and powered engines and were used for transporting goods around the country. There’s a lot of history on the canals, as they were used primarily for industry, whereas today they are for leisure use. With regards to steering a narrowboat, it does get some getting used to at first lol, but they pivot in the middle, so once you get a feel for the pivot it becomes easier, you push the tiller to the right if you want to go left, and to the left if you want to turn right. Hopefully this makes sense and we really hope to hear from you again soon. Thanks Adrian, from Julie and Martin xx
@@JulieandMartinonRIB just put the jug. on. Coffee soon. I finally found your first vlog showing around your boat. Fascinating, as an architect great utilisation. When reading I could imagine your voice narrating. But so many questions. But first I learn how it all started. Keep the blog's comin.
@@adriankeithwellington5464 Aww thank you Adrian! xx
OMG that was a bit hairy. Glad you found a mooring...
Hi Kath! Yes, it was a bit of a journey this week, but worth it in the end 😃 Thank you! xx
That was a beautiful view from your mooring spot. Glad you got to stay close to the shops
It was a lovely view, but boy did it rain while we were there lol 😂 Yes, we ended up with a lovely mooring in the end, sometimes these things happen for a reason don’t they! Thanks Sheryl xx
Lovely vlog as always guys lovely sights and sounds off such lovely birds sounds horns this week I happy thought you both were going to fall in with all the stretching and as for private moorings a load off foot balls and why should just them use water points and not other boaters lucky I not got a boat because I would cut them all down it's wrong that just them use it anyway keep up great vlogs and glad you got a great moorings see you next Thursday it goes so quickly
Hi Nicholas, lovely to hear from you again! It is so lovely to hear the birds 😃 Thought you’d like this week’s vlog, lots of hooters lol 😂 Those moorings aren’t bad, it was just a bit confusing where you were allowed to moor, it was more frustrating that people had left gaps where if everyone moved up you could get more boats in 🤷♀️ You’ll see next week that we get one of those moorings! 😃Thank you Nicholas, see you next week! xx
Delightful and well done!
Aww thank you Steve, it was certainly an eventful journey this week lol, thank you so much! xx
Xx
Thank you Edward! xx
Great location you had with beautiful views.
That debris and tree trunks not good though, but you both sorted it well done 🎉
Hi Debbie, yes it was a lovely mooring, well worth it in the end! Thank you! xx
Great stuff
Thank you Chris! xx
I am a day late this week, fantastic as always but the state of the canal with debris and flooding looked shocking. In all fairness it’s been the same up my way as well, keep warm it’s freezing again this evening
Hi Edward, it was quite an eventful cruise that’s for sure! There’s been so many storms and such a lot of wind and rain, we’re really hoping for a dry spell 🤞 Thanks so much Edward! xx
I can’t see if anyone suggested they look like grain silos. The big chimney things you talked about I know we have them here in Michigan a lot
Hi Malati, we found out it was a refining factory, it’s where they dispose of abattoir waste … not very nice eh! 😳
Thank you so much, it’s lovely of you to leave a comment, thank you Malati xx
Thanks
Oh wow, thank you Lynn! xx ❤️
You’re very welcome. I look forward to Thursday evenings xx
Awesome adventure. Loving it. Best wishes.
Hi Trevor, glad you’re enjoying our videos, lovely to hear from you, thank you! xx
It is nice to hear birds singing, but ‘ that thar is fighting talk mam,’ robins is terrible looking for a fight,
Hi Jim, oh, we thought the Robin might be singing to attract a female, as we know the birds do this in Spring, didn’t realise that! xx
lol you definitely don't want to pass a rendering plant in operation. I drove by one once and almost got sick.
Yes, exactly Scott, thankfully it wasn’t! Lovely to hear from you, thank you! xx
Julie,
give the CRT a heads up about the trees and they will eventually get a crew out to do a clean up.
Mark
Alberta, Canada
Hi Mark, there’s been so many trees down and even landslides, that the CRT are overwhelmed with clean-up jobs, and with most of their staff being volunteers, they are struggling to keep up. They are working their way around the network, so we know this stretch will be done soon. We were amazed at just how much water was coming into the canal from the land! Thank you so much Mark xx
Good day Julie,
Considering what the CRT have to work with and the vast size of their territory, they really do a decent job. Unfortunately upper management seems to be the issue in so many situations.
I really hope that they either chip the branches and logs of wood up or use it i some friendly manner.
Safe journey,
Mark@@JulieandMartinonRIB
@@markrant1460 yes, they do a great job. Often they chop the larger boughs up into fair size pieces and leave them by the towpath for boaters to use with their log burners, and other times they shred it and add it to the ground under and between the trees. Really hoping for a dry spell if weather without these high winds we are now getting! 🫣 Thanks! xx
Good to hear that the wood is not wasted.
Be careful what you ask for when it comes to weather. Remember how hot it got last summer lol?As for us right now we have about 2 feet of snow and have just gone through a cold spell of about -20. This next week will be much warmer and in the + temperatures.
Mark
Alberta, Canada@@JulieandMartinonRIB
Is your boat electric, only it's very quiet when you talk to, Martin. What camera are you using, only you don't appear to get a lot of shake without a gimbal!
Hi Nigel, thank you! Our boat is not electric, it has a Beta Marine 43 diesel engine with a hospital silencer, so that’s a lovely compliment! I only use my old iPhone 11 Pro Max to film with, which seems to be ok, I really wouldn’t know where to start with action cameras, so will stick to this for a while yet 🤪. I do have a bridge camera which I use for stationery close up shots of wildlife, but don’t get to use that whilst moving. Thank you so much! xx