160. Winter cruise on my narrowboat (Part 2); Rugby to Brinklow
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- čas přidán 14. 01. 2019
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I am nothing if not predictable so congratulations to those handful of people who knew in advance what this episode would be called, being part 2 of the previous one (which you can view here: • 159. Winter cruising o... )
In this episode, my mystery Crew member (not Lorna!) and I continue our winter jaunt along the North Oxford canal from just outside Rugby, through Newbold and up to just past Brinklow.
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End point: goo.gl/maps/nPLL15RKfpR2
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Watching from Long Island, NY, you don't know how much calm this brings me in such a stressed out life quarantined (March 2020) in our homes like many millions of Americans. It's a get away, a reminder of a happier time and innocence. thanks for your work and efforts. All the best of luck and health to you and your loved ones. Please, more.
I can imagine the canal life in Britain is much calmer than Long Island.
I watch these videos for hours. I just can't help myself !
Bliss. Nothing better to ward off winter depression than another episode of your travels. Thanks much!
Yes! Especially this year! 😁😉😍
3:15 every time my family goes out on say a holiday or a sunday my mom invariably says "what are all these people doing out??" like we're not doing the same thing and it's a running joke. Your exclaiming "Another hardy boat - what is this in winter!?" has the same energy
I can't thank you enough for taking us along with you on your journey...
It's such a relaxing view of things you have; meandering down the canal, taking in all the historic places, providing a bit of background on the places as you pass...
Quite a life you've got - exquisite
Step 1 - make cup of tea. Step 2 - press play. Perfect video watching!!
The new bridge is such a modern no character monstrosity compared to the charm of brick stone and iron work. Oh well. That's progress for ya.Thanks for the cruise.
I thought the same thing. As a yank, one of the (many) things I love about Britain is the antiquity of the place. Rather the functional antiquity _still in use_.
I think that can be said of pretty much any new average architecture. I witnessed it in Vancouver when I lived there and sadly here in Vienna, no where is safe. Funny thing is that it all costs so much more than all the beautiful architecture of the past. I wonder how many of those houses will sell after Brexit!!
I was thinking the same thing about the bridges!
i agree. brick and ironwork are nicer to look at.
When we passed that area last year they were constructing the supports for the bridge and tgey were very big. I think that they anticipate that it will be used by heavy traffic. Maybe a brick bridge wouldn't be strong enough. It's just a thought.
My first time watching an episode on the day published- I have finally caught up. My little oasis of calm.
Did anybody notice the squirrel at 7.57 lefthand site?
yep
Always a pleasure to watch your videos. None of your fellow canal vloggers have quite mastered the best editing and pacing as you have. Your videos invite the viewer into the experience without overstaying their welcome or becoming tedious. Thank you for sharing narrow boating. Oh how I wish this was something that existed in North America.
Just to show you how CruisingTheCut has changed our lives. My wife for a Christmas gift purchased me a year subscription to Canal Boat and the first copy came today, the January 2019 edition, from the UK. Thanks for taking the time to share narrow boating, it really is a unique way of living.
Excellent!
A ship and its captain is a sight to see indeed. Another fine vlog and quick jaunt to start my morning! Thanks for the cruise.
Thanks for a very stress less tour on the canal Have a good day.
I was watching Brexit news on the TV and getting crosser and crosser, Then put this vlog and my heart rate returned to normal, thanks.
Cheers Keith
Watching from Northern Utah, USA. She loves the countryside and I'm totally fascinated by the canals and locks and everything really. We're hoping now to someday come over and hire a boat ourselves. Top shelf work, thanks for making it!
After watching No. 159, I suddenly had a thought for a possible future piece you might want to do: what do you do when you finish for the day, after a trip? I imagine you moor up, stoke the stove, and prep for dinner. Or go shopping nearby. And then a nice evening editing, reading, or relaxing. It might not necessarily be the most exciting vlog you've done, but it does round out the daily adventure. Anyway, just a thought.
Binge-watching the last several vlogs. You've got quite the life for one to envy from afar in a cold Virginia, USA.
I agree. It would be interesting to see more of everyday life aboard: how to moor, checking the weed hatch, turning the stern gland, dipping the fuel stick, living aboard...
I have showed most of these things already on the videos.
@@CruisingTheCut Yes you have, to be fair. Just some viewer input that we continue to be interested in that stuff. I am especially interested in how you moor. We only ever used bollards or our own mooring pins, but now I see you often use these metal contraptions that fit into the armco. How do they fit in? I wonder about chafing the ropes. Speaking of ropes, don't the centre lines get caught up in the solar panels when you go through locks? I guess its just the ex-navy in me that is interested in lines and mooring.
I tend to use mooring chains which you just drop behind the gap in the armco, reach around and pull up then thread the rope through the holes in the end. I have centrelines on both sides of the boat so don't need to pull them over the panels, I just take up the rope on whichever side is needed!
I'd love to see that too, but more with a focus on enjoying the freedom as a leisurely traveler, not so much on maintaining the boat. Sort of like - I decided that this is my home for a day or too, lets see what's going on around here...
Enjoyed it again. A whole 'nother world. Different from anywhere here in the States, though I live near to the old Ohio and Erie canal system... long since out of service. Small parts of it are still open but while most of it is "there," it's silted up, overgrown and looks like instant death for those unfortunate enough to fall in. Your situation seems like a nice way to live! Thanks for sharing it.
Hi David.. We're currently moored up in Rugby.. just before the Tesco Bridge. The Rugby vlog was immensely helpful to us as we've never been through before... a perfect guide with enough info to show us what we needed to know.... Cheers..🍷🍷
Sad to see landscape filled with new construction. My father used to say “I love the city, because everyone lives there and I don’t”.
I am glad you took a winter cruise and took us with you.
Watching from Vancouver BC, Canada. There is no equivalent to narrow boating out here. Watching your series--in no particular order--is a real education and an insight into an entire culture that I never would have guessed existed. Fun to watch, and I enjoy the humour.
Watching is dangerous, though. I caught myself speculating about the practicalities of that lifestyle.
And one time these canals & narrow boats carried products from all over the world from the British empire from across the world to shops factories & farms. And during WW1 & 2 they were used to carry armour, fuel & weapons to keep the war effort going. Highways of the Victorian times still used to this day.
Not many canals in Canada. From Vancouver you could take a small cruiser up the Fraser River as far as Hope. About 150km.
Beautiful boating, relaxing vid- especially with your soothing voice - i should have a whole day of these lined up as peaceful background for when I when I see a stress filled day approaching!
Just sat through 8 days of your vlogs, yes and I have enjoyed from start too end. Thank you for allowing me to be entertained.
Wonderful example of medieval field system known as ridge and furrow at 7.40, now being eroded by animals poaching up the ground. Shows that little meadow has never been ploughed since those times. I expect you see lots of it going through the Midlands countryside in old pasturelands.
What an awesome thing, being able to start your home up and just have beautiful new scenery to view anytime you want! You have a truly blessed life!
Thanks for posting!
I still think it’s absolutely amazing that these were made so long ago. Backbreaking work.
What a relaxing 2 parter, always a pleasure to accompany you.
I think this might be the earliest I've ever viewed one of your vlogs--saw the notification and had to jump right on it. Thanks for the lovely tour!
Just wanted to say cheers for these videos, I've always been big on rails and roads, but never given a thought to canals.Well, one youtube recommendation and about half your videos later I'm hooked. Keep up the great work.
Thank you!
I look forward to each and every one of your videos. I love seeing the countryside and learning about the boats. Pennsylvania, US.
I really like the serenity of the winter cruising that you show. Thanks!
I must say... enjoying all and the commentary, leaves a chuckle, keeping me spilling my tea.....
Another brilliant Vlog! I enjoy my morning cup of coffee watching you cruise the quiet English countryside. Cheers.
Enjoyable cruise! Thanks for the "Part 2"!
What a lovely gentle video a balm to the soul after a rough shift at work. Thank you
YAY!!!! I’ve caught up and watched all the videos #1 - #166 I do enjoy the cruising and journey vlogs rather than the maintenance and fire side chats but hey you can’t be nonstop I think I will survive. lol I am a landlover and my closest canal is in Hertford where the Lea Canal starts and goes down to London Limehouse Basin. My dream is when I’m older (I’m 30 at the mo) I would have a house and garden with private mooring and have my own narrowboat that I would have Rosie and Jim merchandise and an interactive duck on top! 😌🦆⚓️ ...... until then I’ll just have to live my dream through you but I’m now with you in real time and going to live seeing what this year brings... maybe CZcams and Norfolk Broads could help you canal hop it onto the Broads to go travel round there????? 😱😱🤞😁🤞
A house and mooring is the dream for sure!
Very good David! Your engine is sounding very sweet!
Squirrel ! ( Left hand side of the sreen at 7:56 ) Haha : )
Cooped up in this Cold Detroit, US Winter. So watching your videos from #1 and using Google Earth to follow along as you Cruise the Cuts. Well done. Relaxing.
That workman building all those houses must be very busy. I hope he gets an extra tea break each day for his efforts
My county in New York State had the Chenango Canal run thru it in the mid 1800's, it's long empty but I've walked and looked at many parts of it, and I've imagined how it looked when filled with water and boats. Your video's are wonderful as I can see just how a narrow canal would have looked back then. Great Britain was smart to have kept the canals, and smarter yet to work on restoring them for pleasure craft and the pleasure of those who live and walk beside them. Between the canals and passenger rail service America dropped the ball along the way.
What a gentle, informative video @ a steady pace, whilst being educated abou.................SQUIRREL
Hi David good to see a winter cruise and hope that you are doing well
Another well narrated and fantastic video 👌
Hey David,your subscribers have passed 50k,it keeps growing
Your channel is booooming. Keep the videos coming!
I adore the way you are so chilled out.
David, you had some beautiful photography shots there. A very interesting segment and very cool and relaxed pace. I truly enjoyed it. Thanks.
Always a pleasure to spend time with you cruising the cut - winter and summer.
Thank you so much for your channel! I have been subscribed since I received my lung cancer diagnosis just over two months ago and must admit that your vlogs are very relaxing and beautiful to watch when I get back home from my treatments. I love your witty narrative style and appreciate the therapeutic value of your channel more than words can say. I will follow you until the bitter end. Love, respect and cheers!
Bloody hell that's a tough thing to be dealing with. I hope the treatment is going as well as can be hoped for and isn't too horrible. Glad the videos help in some way. Cheers
@@CruisingTheCut: Thanks, mate! I am completely unafraid... being an existentialist means easily circumventing the "stages of grief." I have accepted my lot and am moving forward with mainstream medicinal and alternative cures and of course a positive attitude. Thanks for replying. FYI I am 56 years old.
Hello from the Ozarks U.S.A. love your videos. And UK.
I’m quite enjoying this winter excursion! I’ve enjoyed your videos from the first one I saw (I believe I’ve seen them all at this point). They always bring me a smile, and give me calm. Cheers!
At 900 The Barley Mews!!! Love that pub! Visited my Cuz in Rugby and it is their go to destination! From Canada a hardy Rahh Rahh!
It's the Barley Mow, though.
Thanks David. Keep em coming! I’m out on the cut for my first winter cruise and really enjoying it. Passed three boats yesterday.
Cheers. I liked your new video at the Weedon depot - I've got family there and have been round the depot a couple of times including that bookshop.
CruisingTheCut Thanks David very kind of you to say so. I have an interest in industrial archaeology and am a volunteer/trustee of a Somerset Steam Museum
beautiful scenery - thanks!
My favorite channel. Informative, amazing scenery, and so relaxing. I'm envious, I wish we had the canal systems here in the states, I would sell the house and spend my life crusing. Awesome!
Thanks for that bit, very relaxed as usual 12 minutes that made my evening. Thanks alot!
It was Gin O'clock when I started watching this! Just the right length video to get a couple of 'snifters' in.
Great vlog David. At least that short tunnel looked fairly dry looking at your solar panels, nothing like a drip finding it's way down your back especially that time of the year..
Another nice one CTC! Winter cruising looks pretty good; it's summer here in NSW and it has been 40+ celsius this week, in fact a high of 44 on one day.
Lol I too have been google earthing your trips . Stalking !
I received my Canal Boat magazine yesterday. Thanks for suggesting.
Hello from Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA ! I really enjoy your posts - well done and plesant, thank you!
Only just come across your videos and life David, they’re like an antidote to the rat race stresses in this country these days, so very welcome. I’ve fallen asleep to the peaceful chug chug noises of your boat and your peaceful voice the past few days.....and I’m mean that in the nicest way. Keep up the good work and I look forward to working my way through your videos. Take care.
Raining in Nor Cal this evening, chill at 50*F. I see you have similar temp with a chance of rain.
5:21 - Pretty sure 'skeeters like that still water in the summer also.
6:30 - As a yank, can I say this? "Further" is measured in some 'thought' or 'consideration' values; "farther" is measured by scales, yardsticks, tape measures, etc.
12:28 - Looks like very mild winter; good times, but I'm sure it is chill in a boat. Toss some coal on the fire; we're pulling the blankets up this evening, and enjoying the sound of the rain...
Very relaxing! As I set here drinking ice tea in 28f degree weather recouping from a total knee replacement, I just thought it would be nice to have hot tea instead.. lol..
Have a nice day David,
Chris from Missouri
Hope that knee's working well for you and you'll be running around soon!
Shadows on the water .in your last vlog . This one you say We Moored up . ? Have you a stow away . Lol
I implied the same thing in my Part 1 comment...
Beautiful vlog as usual David! Only one thing missing in the winter is the obligatory heron flying away...
Hi David,
I was really chuffed that our paths crossed in Braunston yesterday, I hope it happens again some day, and perhaps I will manage to persuade you to come for a drink and a longer chinwag--even if that is just a cuppa on my boat!
Anyway, another excellent video from the Master! Keep 'em coming--you're the only one who does it properly!
All the best,
Steve.
Thank you; lovely to meet you both too. Yes, I'm sure our paths will cross again, the canals have a funny way of working out like that!
7:57 squirrel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! left hand side.
Nice with the squirrel :)
Sitting down with a spiced tea in front of a log fire on a cold January afternoon enjoying your vlog. Thanks, David.
what a nice winter cruise, thank you for allowing us along for the ride, some intresting sights including the wabbits and squirrel.
Oh bollocks, I caught up! I'll just take this opportunity to thank you again for the great content. Before falling asleep, just watching a couple of your vlogs is a great way to ease the mind.
Also, and I'm absolutely blaming you for this, you gave me the "bug"...Now I'm seriously thinking of trying this whole narrowboating thing, one of these summers! My mind has rushed even further and just for fun I looked at narrowboat listings...madness! Haha!
But yes, I can quite imagine myself doing this... Also I'm an engineer (electrical engineer by profession, but I've done mechanical engineering and even worked in a research institute as a research engineer, so all over the pace really...) and quite handy, and love to tinker, design and build things, which might suit this lifestyle...okay, rambling on now!
Looking forward to new content!
Hahaha buy one... ;-)
@@CruisingTheCut You know that made me imagine a tiny David with horns sitting on my shoulder telling me to buy a narrowboat....haha.
David, thanks for bringing out the icebreaker narrow boat! I needed the diversion:) Thanks for posting!
i have been out and about on my boat the last 2 weeks around middlewhich to nantwich to chester n back. passed about 3 boats out. brilliant. all to myself.
A very pleasant trip around the canals and great vid for newcomers. Whom ever said you couldn't cruise in the winter with the crisp freshness of the air. Keep up the good work David
It is nice to be as you say "Out and about" in the wintertime. The waterways are much more open and far less congested.
When I had my boat, in the summer on a weekend you were lucky to splash it in under an hour after getting to the ramp. And about the same when it came to hauling out.
In the colder months, it takes longer to park the trailer than it does to splash the boat.
SO very enjoyable. from the colony of VA.
Greetings from the USA! Once I started watching one of your videos from some random suggestion and now I'm hooked! It seems like such a peaceful and simple life.
A very nice and pleasant journey. Thank you David for a great video and commentary.
Thanks for bringing us along for another wonderful trip David.Hope your New Year is going well!
Lovely to see rugby by boat as I do live there
Thoroughly enjoyed your video as usual. The history and charm of all these locations I find fascinating. Keep them coming, I look forward to each one.
David, another lovely video from my favourite CZcams. We spent the day in and around Shardlow today, walking up to Sawley Marina and stopping for a winters day picnic. Can’t wait to get the money together to live this life. It’s where me and my lass belong.
I have caught up! watched all the videos and it was very enjoyable cant wait for more! thanks David
I love these videos, thanks for sharing..
always have my Google Earth open to follow your trips.. keep mentioning town names, thanks
See also map links in the video description, cheers
I bought the Nicholsen guide for the grand canal and have been following along with it when he is in that area. (I'd like to have them all one day). It's the closest I'll ever get to a canal.
It blew my mind..well, kind of...when I read in the FAQs that you are going on the right side with your boat. I honestly did not notice that difference to road traffic in GB. I had a nice chat with a cab driver in London a couple months ago; we were making fun about who is going on the right side of the road (I'm german btw), but when watching the boat traffic, I did not notice them going right, just until now 😀
Phil Jehmineh Yeah, on 95%+ of narrowboats, the throttle is along the left side of the boat, so one hand on the throttle, one on the tiller places you in a ‘left-hand drive’ position, and passing to the right becomes natural.
Really enjoying your blog in the snowy cold winter in Montreal. We almost had a holiday on a long boat, but the boat we were supposed to rent was damaged, so was replaced with a cabin cruiser and we went from just above London to Oxford and back. We spent many evenings watching a couple or more of your blog, I feel like we have experienced the canals. Thank you for sharing and as we came to the last one this week, are hoping you will soon be back.
Started watching your vlogs just a short while ago. Extremely enjoyable. I am living in Houston Texas and it brings me back to my life in the UK where I was born. Keep up the good work
A very enjoyable interlude, looking forward to many more.
aww, The tunnel with a path on both sides has the right one blocked off by an iron gate/door thing. It does look pretty cool with vines all over it though.
I hope their building some shops and places for people to work in this new housing district.
In Canada and I'm sure the US too they build up housing districts that are only useful if you own a car.
Enjoying these winter ones! And also enjoying the new camera shots. Loving the water line ones.
Never would have guessed that I would enjoy your vlogs so much...👍👍. Keep the good work going...😉
Love all the cruising the cut vlogs...I'm on my second run through..want a narrow boat myself now.
Keep it up David 👍
Lovely video David,winter cruising looks so cool,wrapped up warm steering the boat,log burner keeping the cabin warm,sounds so appealing,Chris
Another nice video. I wish the government would demand that new bridges fit in with the surroundings; i'm fine with them being made of steel and concrete, but they should be cladded in stone / brick.
Thank you for another excellent presentation. Have you considered a wool hat or cap. There is an extraordinary amount of heat loss from an uncovered head. I spent many years in the elements, and keeping the head covered works wonders.
I have a few hats but I find they make my head itch!
Lovely vlog, the right winter clothes could make this a very easy time to do your travels with so many boats moored. With 136,000 subscribers several companies may be happy for you to wear their clothes. I hope you enjoyed seeing you friend having a private life in your case is tricky.