LIFE ABOARD: Your Questions Answered (Narrowboat Q&A)
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- We ran out of time to get our usual video out so thought we'd answer some of your questions instead! Thanks for putting questions forward, we had fun and hope our answers are useful :-)
A little bit of info for those who don't know, we live in the UK on a narrowboat called Zero, and we're in the process of converting another 20 year-old narrowboat into floating cafe.
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Hope you enjoyed our first Q&A! Comment below if there’s anything you’d like to know and we’ll get a list on the go 😁 Hope you’re having a great weekend 🤩👍
Trim on inside of windows: you can get flat UPVC trims in varying widths and wood effect, 100% waterproof and flexible for arches/curves www.trulypvc.com/window-door-parts/finishing-trims/pencil-round-architrave-5m?number=EUR-2078-1042&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrr3Pgd6h6wIVDOvtCh0mrAYcEAQYASABEgIFFvD_BwE stick it with silicone or superglue. The wood effect one's are best ordered online but you can pick up plain white ones in most DIY stores. Best of luck to both of you! 🙂
P.S. They're harder to bend in the cold so you can leave them out in the sun if it's a tight curve.
You two are so cute together, and very funny. You could do a morning talk show from Holly. You could call your show, The Morning Buzz, and have guests on to whom you service your latest coffee blends.
You two are so adorable together! Loved this one!
glad you liked it David 😁
I love Vics’ James Bond faces that he pulls for the camera LOL
You two are just lovely people, well suited and I think your cafe will be a great success
Regarding pedal power, you could set up a couple of bikes with small generators, on stands and recharge your batteries. This would be particularly useful in the winter when you want to keep warm and there’s not a lot of solar going around. Or, you could set up some miniature treadmills with ferrets and teeny, tiny generators and feed them stale cake from Holly to encourage them to run (fresh cake on special occasions or when you want to go really fast...(p.s. Enjoyed your Q&A - a laugh riot, as we used to say!).
I think I could watch you guys do just about anything and enjoy it. Another charming video. Thanks!
Question for the next Q&A:
Where in the UK are you both from?
How are you supporting yourself through the renovations (you didn't answer this in this Q&A 😉)?
Has the pandemic changed your business plan for the cafe?
What a joy to watch you both and see your progress with Holly each week.
and thanks for answering my question too :)
You two are so watchable, I just love you both, lots of love & best wishes xx
"How do we hipster-up our lifestyle?" Okay I have to admit, that was funny.
Hello Boaters, if you want to see what sailing is like, have a look at the movie " Adrift " loosely based on a true story, I think canal calm looks so much better than life on the open waves!
I now know how come you are so good at editing videos.
Sunday evening and your video is becoming my favourite part of the week. The wife has agreed we need a boat after our recent week on the Llangollen. Going to wait until next year for the boat, but hope to get something from your cafe in the future... Oh no 7 days until next Sunday now :(
Excellent, great video! Q & A with the usual "Vic & Jo, lets just go for it" approach. Settled a discussion I have been having too, I thought Jo had an East Lancs accent. Be good and take care.
Could watch a movie of you two, love your personalities and suit eachother so well..
Hi Jo and Vic, it must be great not having a care in the world and living the dream, you are both always so laid back. I live a mile from goldstone wharf on the Shroppie , I am looking forward to my coffee and meeting you both. Take care Steve.
What a wonderful couple you are. Wishing you both all the best with your new venture. My wife and I hope to someday join you for a coffee on Holly
Your roving supplies for the cafe: An idea I had, maybe worth a try. You should do county or shire specials from local producers. I.E. Fruit cake n' Wensleydale or Curd Tarts when in Yorkshire etc. Scone's n' Clotted cream in the South West and so on. Jellied Eels or pie n' mash in London, the list goes on. It could become a signature thing for you, keeping food culture alive and maybe even taking it other parts of the country if you retain a dish on the menu as it where. Hope your cafe boat is a success. PS. When sailing, try a Catamaran or Trimaran they heel less!
If it's not too personal I'd like to know how you support yourselves, financially. I can only imagine the cost of renovating Holly and it's such a brave thing to do. But then there are the day-to-day costs as well. Cannot wait to see Holly up and running!
Lots of fun, thanks!
Thanks guys had a laugh 😂😂and keep up the good work 👍🏻
Loved that!
Loved this Q&A. I am a displaced Cheshire-ite now living in California. I have been watching your vlogs for yonks from CA. It happens I am currently in Southport and do have transportation for the next six weeks and am desperate to get coffee and cake. I truly hope I can before I have to go back…. Please Please Please open before the middle of July AND somehow let the world know where you are (read let me know where you are…). So I can come and have a slice of decent cake and coffee AND say a brief hello before I have to go back to Cally. That would put the icing on my cake, so to speak.
Thank you both, and William of course!
❤️❤️❤️David
Great vlog! I love the variety of the videos... so much fun. I look forward to watching you guys each week! Can't wait to visit for a coffee sometime :-)
we are very happy for both of you remember tomorrow is yet untouched looking forward to next week
Hi Joanna and Vic,
Loved your question and answer vlog. Enjoy watching you two figure it all out together.
Best boating Q&A I've seen...very funny 😁 ....cheers
Enjoyable vlog. I admire your spirit. You will succeed.
Great vlog - such fun and I wish you well in your endeavours. Having owned/run a artisan deli/coffee shop in Manchester I feel your excitement, which I had - it was hard work but loved every minute - I'm sure you will
Love that orange kettle !! cheers and thumbs up from Florida USA
Joanna - would you like an award winning Lime and Courgette cake recipe. I know it's going to be awhile yet until you're carving it up and serving it to people. Lime and courgette doesn't sound right but believe me they'll be banging on the door for more.
Rich x
Wow, what a difference a few weeks makes, I am impressed, Holly looks great, and who cares about the port holes, adds character. Looks like it's going to be a while until you're down my neck of the woods, hopefully next year. Looking forward to seeing the inside take shape, good job guys, well done !
Spanking editing! So much fun for a Q&A...
Good morning, that was good!
Great video guys keep up the good work 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇵🇦🇵🇦👍👍
I was wondering about those portholes, opening from the outside.
Easy to steal as the bolts are on the outside, and the Café is separate from the living boat so hard to hear anybody, plus it needs to be moored shore side.
I promise it's the last time I'll mention portholes other than they look lovely and shiny.
I enjoyed too see
your videos. hugs from Denmark
Love U guys....UR one lucky guy ! LOL I am following 10 narrow boaters
Doing such a grand job all around! Keep It simple or KIS for Holly. I'm sure you already have a business plan. I wish I could visit, but I will put it on my bucket list for sure. Retirement has been made very different because of the panemic, but who am I fooling, I have a teenager also. Best wishes, I surely hope you can keep up the vlog, it's my fav along with Country Gent!!!! You two make my day with every aspect of your adventures.
Nay, its a Blackburn lass! Turkey salad teacakes, tripe, black puds, 'stew and hard' broth and dumps, steak pud, chips, peas and gravy. I hope you've let Vic know about the East Lancs section of the menu?🤣
Lovely to to see you both! :-)
Stay safe! :-)
thanks Chris, you too!
So adorable
Hi! You talk about two things to check when buying a boat and that´s the hull and the appliances, what about the engine then, a troublesome engine and you are stuck.
Would you say you speak, “Lanky”?
You both are so funny, love your interaction and how you are on the same wavelength.
Millennial snowflake, hipster, too funny, (none of the above, thankfully)
A Wales narrowboat holiday was suggested to us for a 45th Wedding anniversary, that’s what brought me to your site. Loving each moment, can’t wait for the next episode.
Looking forward to the electic boat project, thats right up my street.
MrTeslonian on CZcams has some cool projects to get the mind ticking, do you know of him?
The cafe boat looks stunning, well done everyone! So I'm guessing it's going to be a sit in cafe with coffee, tea, cake, biscuits?
Love your videos, they are inspiring and fun, also I am from Nottingham but am long-term based in distant Canada so it's lovely to see a bit of where I grew up. A couple questions re a moving cafe, I'm thinking by moving around you are eliminating the chance to build up a core of regulars, I'm sure you have thought of this but how will people plan a visit? Will you have a circuit you repeat weekly or just be at large on the waterways and hoping people want a coffee when you are passing? Will you be vending at festivals? What about static cafes next to the canal, would you not be stepping on toes if you set up shop next to them? The other practical issue that comes to mind is water, the replenishing thereof and waste-water removal, surely that'll become a daily chore and limit where you can set up shop? Excited to see how things progress, good luck!
For the eco boat, marine sailboats have marine wind generators, how much wind do you get on the canals? Also there is a pull behind generator that is based on the analog speed logs for marine vessels when underway but may not work for the canal systems because of shallowness... just throwing ideas out, seeing what sticks.
Put a hefty flywheel on a generator and use pedal power to turn it. Once it starts rotating, a small amount of physical energy will be needed to keep it going.
Did you do a avert for river cruises.
Does that cooker run under floor heating
Just catching up on past videos.
The heat generating electicity is a thermocouple, or Seebeck effect. (Same as electrtic coolboxes use, but in reverse.) But it is not very efficent. Running your heating flat out, with acres of elements between you radiators and the hull, is only going to generate tiny amounts of power. barely enough to charge a phone.
Running electric propulsion, you need serious amounts of power, that will only really come from grid power, or a fuel powered generator. And for a generator you are converting that mechanical power to electricity and back, which will add losses. So you end up in a situation where running the prop directly from the engine actually turning out to be the most ecological solution.
Solar is going to be really challenging in the UK. If you cover the boat completely in panels, you are going to be charging for weeks, to get a day's light crusing.
So these are fun things to play with (I do it all the time), but be realistic and keep the engine in place for when you need to fall back on it.
Hi Gonzo, Thanks for this! Yeah I've ended up at the same conclusion with the Seebeck generator idea. It's such a tempting challenge to go trying to figure out how to power a whole boat entirely renewably, but the more realistic solutions tend to be the only ones remaining after a proper consideration. It's actually easier to think about it this time of year when we're not quite getting enough solar from our current set up.
But you're right they're fun ideas to play with. We've got a bit of time until we have to get sensible but we'll probably be talking about those plans more after we're finally finished with Holly. Please do let us know you're thoughts as we do though, it's always good to have a few more heads to check your own ideas against before you end up with a very expensive boat that doesn't go! :-)
@@HollyTheCafeBoat Heat energy and efficiency are the buzzwords, I saw a youtuber charge a cell phone using a piezo electric device two cast iron frying pans and a camp fire. A lot of heat to charge a phone. I think there is a porsche that uses this effect on it's exhaust system to scavenge power, again a lot of heat (energy not temperature).
Soooo annoying that You Tube no longer send email notifications for new episodes when they are released! Nearly missed this one, had to manually search for it!
Good luck
Victor, it sounds like you are talking about a Stirling engine for a boat, which would be pretty ambitious, but great to see?. The problem with whatever you call home, be it boat or house, is you often fill it with things you may or may not need, but at least with a boat you already know you are a space limited so it easier to justify getting the widget or not.
Claiming my 1st place as per usual
😂 There ain’t nothing like TheRealThing!
Have you done the Ribble Link before on the way to the Lancaster canal?
Did you use wallboard (drywall to us here) on your upper walls?? If you did you could cut strips the correct width, lightly score the back where the curves are going to be and it will obligingly bend where you want it to go. However you will still have the edges to contend with. (Jo I have actually done a couple of archways using this method and it is lots of fun!! there is a thin metal strip used for corners and you could bend that also....but then there is the mud....and that might not be good on the boat). Maybe you could also try a wood veneer?? I too had wondered about those windows. So we'll see won't we. Hugs as always.
How.long does it take to learn to steer the boat?
How hard are the locks to move?
Gluten free and ice cream, kids are chomping at the bit to come and visit. I'm fairly sure we've seen all the vlogs but didn't know about your q & a, are we missing a page? Will you be continuing the vlogs once you open the cafe up?
Well done! I enjoyed the Q&A! For those of us who live across the pond, would you explain the AGA cooker to us? We would call it a stove or a range. What is the big deal about having an AGA? I watch a lot of British shows like Escape to the Country, and they seem to be a goal to own one. Thanks! God Bless ( don't forget your logo!)
🤣🤣😂🤣😂 Well done.
I agree with the person wanting to see how you trim the inside of the windows. all the years I worked on peoples houses I kept wishing some one would want a Hobbit house so I could make round doors, windows, halls...........
On a rather mundane point - as you will be moving around how does the Hygiene Certification work? Also your food handling certification and trading licence?
Does the duck keep in touch?
ha ha what a bunch of fruit cakes (in a good way of course) great to see your enjoying what your doing and having fun :)
useful
First question... moustache is mandatories and electric engine it’s the way forward ... then you’ll be between ..... Uma......and .... la vagabond ..... sorry About my English is not my first language you guys are a good watch 🖖🏻
"Mineral? Gold!" 😂
🤷♀️😄
OK call me mad, but why not 3 wind generators.
As there are tunnels on the Cut they would need to be able to fold down, so 2 small that would be lets say 3 to 4 ft mounted on the roof that are employed while moving and then one that can be stored along one side that when erect could (folded up)sit say 10 plus foot above the boat away from the bedroom so at night the hum and other noises would not keep you awake, this would be folded down during travel.
Great channel see you soon.
Tony in Australia
12:15 hope you change your mind, that system will not make enough even to light a bulb all night. Hope that both of you are ok and the pandemic stuff will go fast. Did you think to make also a space for few tables on the roof? it will be taller, but maybe you think at something to be fast deployed, like the furniture for the camping, to be able to pack all if it's a low bridge on the way :). I think this will be nice and work better with the covid rules to have smth on open space.
I missed some videos so just wondering what engine she has and if you had to do much work on it.
Love your videos,dont change a thing.
Dont go La Vagabond way to artificial,
Take care.
Your partner is adorable, such a lucky man xx
Again, top notch vid. Great to see you two,playing with us.😊
Just curious,do you have a personal email add, as apposed to your business add?
I ask, because, like I recognised the accent, your from Blackburn. I lived there from 1969 to 1986, and I still have family there.
Totally get it if you think I'm prying.
Tom from Quebec Canada
Heat your boat with compost will go up to 140f horse shit and wood chips make a box put some pipes together and a fan and you will have hot water and hot air think .
When the EU forced the UK to tax pleasure diesel back in the 90s it was the The Boating Industry that put up the biggest fight. As it's impossible to take the red stain out of the tanks, pipes and pumps, diesel sellers would need to install another complete system to sell white diesel. Commercial boats would still use red diesel and pleasure boater would still be able to use for heating, cooking and electric power generation.
A compromise was found that Red diesel would still be used and tax added to 75% of the amount purchased the remaining 25% tax free for heating etc.
The biggest problem was for boater visiting the EU as customs started fining + taxing not the volume of fuel in the boat but on the size of the tank and even confiscating boats in some cases.
If white diesel is going to raise it's ugly head again then unless a cleaning method has been found to rid the Red stain, then boaters will need to install a complete new fuel system for the propulsion side , plus use white diesel if the charge the power system from the main engine.
You guys need to get together and lobby your MPs. But being on the move who is your MP ?
Join an association, get together with marina and other fuel sellers.
On the cleaning side I have experienced trying to rid red from trucks that had been used off road on a construction project. Flushing through with white diesel and installing new fuel filters does not work. One truck driver was summons and luckily log books were filled in each day the truck was off-road as they would be if it was on the road. plus invoices to the client included the registration numbers, so the case was thrown out.
Funny how the UK gov did not veto the proposal at that time, a time when it could have? However the legislation on diesel would have exempted non pleasure craft. However I suspect that with the current shortfall in U.K. tax receipts that the days of red diesel for pleasure craft are numbered. After all you can’t get ‘red gas’ for a domestic use.
@@JohnSmith-bx8zb I think the main issue at the time was boat yard having to buy new equipment to serve white diesel. They would still need the red for commercial customers, I spoke with one yard up near Reading and one commercial boat equaled 20 pleasure boats diesel sales, plus he had to collect tax and deal with it.
I gave up running a building business because of having to collect tax from my staff and VAT from some of my customers, Then having to waste an entire afternoon with the VAT while he sifted through my books, to try catch me out but couldn't find a thing wrong..
Strange my migraines stopped after that.
Good Moaning Vietnam Let’s hope the Chancellor gets the situation
Are you planning a web site for Holly showing where you are (when it opens) of is it just going to be customers find you by chance?
Great idea!
I just looked at the Video of you taking Holly out the boat yard and it do appear that a porthole is the wrong way round 🤔😮
What shoes did Vic have on for this interview?
It may have been almost asked, but can Xero tow Holly across the Ribble link. Also, I have seen untethered boats struggle with the turns of the Savick Brook. Is it possible to tow Holly? Actually, Does Holly have an engine?
Hiya! Yes Holly has an engine so we'd take them both separately 👍
When are you guys planning on a live vlog
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And how are you financing the refurbishment of Holly? Not sayin!!
Hi Joe! Sorry if you sent a question that we didn't answer, we managed to save money when we were working in London and living on the boat so not paying rent. Hope that answers your question!
What will end first, do you think, Q or A?
will you be offering Gluten Free options? :-)
We will indeed!
Deffo have to pay you a visit once ur up n running 😀
How about free gluten options? (Asking for a friend...)
👍👌🇨🇦❤,,
When do you think you'll be going Electric ?
Are the Portholes the wrong way round or is it a joke ? 😯🤔
Yes
@@TheByard So this was a joke in that Film then ☹ With Robin Williams ? I love Robin Williams but never seen that film 😪
@@mikesmith2401 I have travelled to and worked in many country's the least 1 year the most 7 years so get a feel for that country. Vietnam suits me down to the ground sure all is not right but I couldn't name you a country I've traveled to that is. My moans in Vietnam are mostly good ones and so thought of Good Moaning Vietnam.
There was a Chain of Italian restaurants called Good Morning Vietnam after the Robin Williams catch phrase. Sadly the Italian owner died in a crash riding his motorcycle one night and the restaurants failed one by one after that.
Younger James Franco ?
If you want a low carbon means of pollution, why not get a horse?
Boring!! stay with the subject of your channel>> "Cafe Boat"
Hi Brian! We were just a little behind on videos, they take up quite some time to edit 🤷♀️ but this channel is for lots of boaty things so there might be some variation!
Understanding the philosophy and rationale behind the journey is as much fun as seeing the journey itself. Helps us to come along with you :-)