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Hi from Dartmoor, what a lovely little trip but, the mooring, no pub, you must have a drop of gin on board🤣🤣🤣

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Best 30 minutes of my morning, I do so enjoy your travels. Thank you for taking me along. Beautiful canal today looks to be a very peaceful mooring. I'm looking forward to next week.

Love your vlogs, Steve, but blimey, every time you go under a bridge and the camera is that close, I have to duck in case I hit my head 🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣

Your really doing my head in now, first Your a time lord and on the Oxford canal and now the vlog is on Tuesday instead of Thursday. Lol , Agree shame about sunken boats nice vlog Steve take care.😊

Very interesting. I enjoy the slow pace of your vlogs.

Nice vlog as usual, Never seen Bratch locks before they look very good thanks for sharing. 😊

Great vlog as always lovely views as always hard work doing locks on your own better with chug a bug lots off help i noticed in chugabug you are limping with a stick hope you not hurt yoursef think you said in one off vlogs you been boating for 40 to 50 years so how many boats have you had keep up great vlogs

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Truly my inspiration. Brilliant vlog. Lovely cruise. U make the locks look straight forward. Best wishes. 🎉

Good housekeeping making a diversion for less expensive diesel, look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves - even if it takes THREE days!!🤣🤣🤣

Good evening sir, I've been binge watching your videos this evening, My wife and I have been on a few NB holidays. This year we pick up our boat from Stone and wondering what direction to go on our 14 day holiday. We did the four counties last year. Watching your videos for ideas 😊 Thanks for sharing. Subbed 👍🔨📐😀🪚

Love your natural vlogs. I’m 61 and would love to live on the canals. How practical is it do you think ? You seem to manage very well but think you’re younger. Best wishes.

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Good morning from Dartmoor Steve. I expect you've been asked this before but, as a solo boater roughly how long between pump outs and what is the average cost?

The tow path must have often been a right old frightful mess in the days of the horse drawn narrowboats. A lot of that graffiti shows a lot of thought went into the design and the colours. The cost in aerosol cans alone must be considerable. Imagine if that same effort and imagination was directed towards more constructive (and lucrative) purposes. Spring is on its way... where blossoms announce the beginning of spring... I live in Canada...if only it were so here! Can't complain though... well, actually we can, and do. Too hot and humid in the summer and too cold and damp in the winter but that is just traditional as we are prepared for such but crabbing about it is a great conversation opener!

Great cruise, I always enjoy and appreciate the scenery around the canals. It may sound strange, but I enjoy the architecture of the bridges you pass under. And I enjoy checking out the other boats as you pass them.

Pleasant vlog Steve i thought for once the graffiti was interesting on the bridge, As you commented the blossom was lovely on the Blackthorn but i think my favourite bit was Avenue bridge as you said very atmospheric. Take care 😊

G'day Steve, how's your eyes mate? Seeing the world clearly I hope.

Hi Steve. Regarding passing places when it's narrow. I think it would be good to have a boaters code where if the passing spaces are on one's left, you have right of way. If the passing spaces are on one's right, then give way to the oncoming boat. When I was on that stretch I never encountered an oncoming boat, but as I was heading Eastwards, I was prepared to put my 'code' into practice.

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Being alone and being lonely are two very different things. You can be lonely in a crowd. You can be alone and at peace with yourself and surroundings. People with chaotic and stressful lives will ask you if you are lonely. Is this a case of misery loving company? I know what I would choose. The medics have extended your warranty! Enjoy the days given to you.

Nice cruise as usual. When you lost your steering, was it silt, mud or something else. I was thinking, would it be possible to get stuck in all thus.

What a lovely day for February, Very impressed with the roundhouse at Gailey Bridge not so impressed with the breasting of hireboats glad you found a pub,stay safe.😊

Lovely video as always Steve, was nice to meet up with you briefly yesterday, Colin and Lynn

Brilliant channel. Lovely cruise. No fussing. No drama. Thank you. Just a joy to watch and dream. 🎉

good vid on channel cranking it on the cut keep up the cool vid you do thanks lee

nice scenery between all those locks,was wandering with all the years youve been going through locks,how many times you have left your windless on the boat,or is it a first.

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The swans were outpacing Moorland Rose! Does that daft cranky fool shout at them to slow down as well?

Nice vlog Steve, That bridge certainly took a hit trust you to be near two pubs it must be hard work, I've still got a childlike sense of humour so I thought Boggs lock was great, stay safe. 😊

Another great cruise. Warm up, see you next time.

Love your videos, so relaxing!

A fine vessel ⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️

Looked rather windy at the end there.

Looks great, even in the mid winter. I agree you might be on your own but out in fresh air you've always got mother nature for company. You're living my dream!!

Hi Steve very enjoyable cruise, l am now relaxed thank you.

Never been on the Staffordshire and Worcester canal even in winter it looks good especially the train line, Glad you passed your MOT,One thing I've been meaning to ask I watch the adverts believing it gets you money is this true, Great vlog and keep right.😊

Hello Steve, glad you got a clean bill of health. Lovely peaceful vlog, thank you. Best wishes Christine x

Lovely relaxing cruise,so peaceful,

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Good video as always I live opposite the crown pub in handsacre and yes the chip shop is very popular narrowboat will stopped here in December and I said hello to him as a I was local he said they was very good he had some with his son.Trevor stopped but didn’t rate them.Michaels fish bar gets a lot of mentions on all the vloggers did you stop and have any

Alrewas always looks like an anagram, but I haven't worked it out yet.

Lots of tight curves ot that stretch, you had to to aware with all boats in opposite direction,the straigh parts had some lovely scenery.

Happy New year steve, I'll have my birthday on the 7th January, I thought you might have been tempted with that tree on the towpath for firewood only done that first section of the T and m just passed a pub called the Plum something always like cruising by a train line, great vlog stay safe. 😊

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Great vlog as per usual, Happy Christmas. Lol. hope you had a few jars in the Swan, take care.😊

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Great cruise, happy to still get notifications. See you next week.

Thank you, Steve, for these videos - a perfect combination of gentle cruises and the occasional words about things of interest. Love them. One question, though: Bridge 36, towards the start of this video, is indicated as a turnover bridge, but since the towpath doesn't go beneath it I can't see how it's a turnover. Maybe it has been rebuilt at some time?