4. A tour of my narrowboat
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
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Vlog number 4 and this is a tour of my canalboat from top to tail. It's still on chocks at a marina whilst I line up some maintenance to be done on it but will hopefully take to the water again in a few weeks - just in time for winter!
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Thanks for the tour of your boat David, looks like you are going to have a lovely life and see some wonderful places... I have been watching Timothy West and his wife Prunella Scales on their narrow boat tours, such a lovely enjoyable time they share and l feel quite in awe of them...maybe a little envious too ☺ ..enjoy this beautiful weather on the water ☺ xx
+Monnie Garland They're great programmes, aren't they? (Apart from his habit of banging into things and then laughing it off, which is very annoying)
Love rewatching your early videos when you first purchased the boat and started your 6+ years adventure.
Ha, thanks. One day I'll re-watch them myself although I suspect I'll cringe a bit 🤣
@@CruisingTheCut8 years, absolutely flown 🇬🇧🙏😎
It's interesting going back and watching this after all the work you've put into your boat in the past 5 or so years
You’re a natural to blogging, David. 😃👍👏👏
Oh you have made my day ! I used to have a small cruiser on a trailer which my family and I took from Braunston,- up under Brum... out to the Spagetti junction ( Which I knew as the 78 tram from Gravelly Hill as I was born nearby !) round to Coventry and bac k. 40 years have passed since then and now at 90 it is your videos which keep me alive and kicking ! I just can't thank you enough.
That's a lovely comment! Thank you. I'm so pleased you're enjoying them.
Hello from Colorado U.S.A. Looking forward to watching this channel, just discovered it today and already finished episode #4. These episodes, so far, are excellent. Great camera shots, well edited, simple dialog.
I do wish you will reconsider the upholstery. I think it's charming.
Best wishes, mate.
Have a great day!
Thank you! Many more episodes left for you to see 😀😀 The upholstery gets changed though!!
@@CruisingTheCut I was watching a totally unrelated video to "longboats" or "canals" when it was suggested to watch your episode #209, the fuel boat couple. I was hooked immediately. I thought it was a documentary from the BBC. I did go to your website and discovered your past and knew this was too professional to be a retired cab driver.
The drone was a great addition to your productions.
I figure I'll be caught up on your adventures sometime this summer. If these early episodes are any indication of the marvelous journey ahead, I will need more tea and plenty of "biscuits"
Have a great day!
A Spider on the oven !!!!!
" so i can sit in bed and be a slob"
😂😂😂😂😂
There is a spider at 4:36 next to the knob
Nice and tidy it'll be good to see the changes as you make it your own.
Haha, I'm hoping to keep it tidy - what are the chances do you reckon???
I'm glad I scrolled back through the vids to the beginning, as I've been curious about the overall layout. Looks amazing!
So exciting! Sorry I didn’t see these real time, but better late than never. Great tour. I’ve already got a list of things to look for, watch out for, and update.
I’ve started back at the very beginning.
Indeed, a VERY good place to start.
When you read you begin with A B C. But if you’re David you begin at ABNB (abnb).
That one special boat David happened to see at ABNB (abnb).
Aaanyway -
I’m very excited because, whilst rewatching from episode 1, I’ve just noticed that, for some reason, I had never watched episode 4, this episode.
Oh the simple and pure joy felt upon discovering an unwatched cruising the cut episode.
Magic.
🙂🐿🌈❤️
That's 4 vlogs down so only (?!) another 182 to go (minus a few later ones that I've already watched). Luckily it's a bank holiday w/end here in the UK so I should have plenty of time. Just need to tell the Good Lady Wife that there's no chance of getting the grass cut tomorrow !! 😎😲😨
Stephen Pegum doing exactly the same. Hi from Melbourne Australia. September 19.
@@simonnaughton2272 Hi back Simon from sunny N London - belatedly for which my apologies.
😅😅😅😅😎
Thank you so much for this video! As an American with a newly found obsession with narrowboats and no canals within about 4000 miles I have to live vicariously through books and videos. I have never been able to get a proper tour of a narrow boat and this was great!! I look forward to many more videos!
Plenty more on my channel or website: www.cruisingthecut.co.uk !
loved having a nose around your boat. enjoyed your narration. looking forward to more!
Thank you! Plenty more on the channel, have a browse round!
Really impressed with how spacious it is, so much storage & very neat designs, beautiful wood panelling, lots of attention to detail. Very lucky.
I miss cruising the cut vlogs, so i am starting at # 1 vlog. I miss the evil swans and herons that always fly off when they see you. Take care
I hope you enjoy your boat as much as we did back in the late 1960s when we bought our first boat (and had a 2½ year old and a 6 week old baby). We gave up in the mid 1970's but the canals are incredibly busy compared to 'our day' now, and there doesn't seem to be the characters that we knew then, but the tranquillity of the canals cannot have changed so much. Good luck and thanks for sharing your experiences.
I'm enjoying it immensly though the weather this summer hasn't exactly been terrific - it was better in April / early May than it has been in June and July! Thanks for watching and commenting.
4: Done. :)
0:58 Moment of silence please for the shiny brass horn - knowing what happened in a later episode.
Hi David, I thoroughly enjoy your Vlogs , having been around UK boats and canals most of my life as a boatbuilder. Now living in New Zealand and retired , enjoying real boating in New Zealand's South Island near Nelson on the north coast of the South Island.
Wondered if you might consider renaming your boat to "Davy Johns' Locker.!
Boating here is a real pleasure. I live near the beach so can use my boat only a few yards from our house in Anakiwa.
We bought a 2007 UK caravan a few years ago I think in 2017 a double axle Coachman 645 with central heating and air conditioning, freezer and microwave for about 8000 pounds UK and shipped it to NZ. Much cheaper than your DIY conversion and full head height of course with all the features you could want.
Just wondered why you went to so much trouble to convert a van when all was perfect with a caravan from 2007 with everything you need and like new all round.
Keep up the good work,
Peter.
Hi. I don't have a car to tow a caravan, I prefer campervans, and I wanted the fun and experience of doing the conversion.
This is great! I have watched almost all your videos but never made it to the first few where you started your journey. It’s so great to see how it all started after watching it to the end. So young and full of adventure!
That was one of the best walk through I have seen, thanks :)
I've seen quite a few of the videos but hadn't realized that the bedroom was at the back of the boat. You learn something new every day :-)
I'd give up my rural 2 story farmhouse for one of these any day of the week. Wish we had something like this here in the USA. Thanks for all of these videos, it makes for some great breakfast entertainment!
Jerry Boynton III not much in the way of canals. But I see a lot of people live aboard around the Puget Sound and even Oregon.
What an absolutely, charming living area. Larger then I thought given the outside dimensions.
As I get more sophisticated in canal boats I appreciate yours more.
Cheers
Surprisingly spacious you look at a narrow boat and think cant b much room in that when you enter the boat its like a tardis
As i said ive just started watching from episode 1
So as im retired on ill health ive plenty of time this winter
Inbetween studying for my radio amateur licence foundation test to watch your journey i was on cb in the 80.s actually met my wife on cb blind date but i always wanted to become radio ham ive persuaded her to let me have a 21ft antenna on our 270yr old cottage
Anyway back to matters nautical ill say this you come across very well and your manner is very good pleasant and informative
Its like you the boat and the canal were made for each other
Its only just this week i started watching you so
Ive plenty to go at this winter
Take care god bless you pal
Thank you
[we] never knew narrowboating was so fashionable ...
Coronation Street rarely had such storey lines ...
We are huge fans now thanks to you ...
#CarryOnNarrowboating
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the tour of your lovely home! I've been fascinated with the narrowboats (actually with living on any boat, sounds fabulous)
It is! Even when the rain's chucking it down like today. Take a look at the other videos on my channel for more "narrowboat life" (or watch them via www.cruisingthecut.co.uk)!
I'm very much enjoying sharing your experiences.
Both my sons live on narrow boats on the Grand Union Canal in and about London. I'm very far away on the east coast of Australia. I see your vlog and I'm reminded of them. Thanks.
+Dar Hayward That's a very lovely thought, that my videos can connect you like that, so thanks for writing and watching. Cheers.
I know this is an early vlog... how nice to see one of your mandatory spiders... hiding on the gas cooker, waiting to turn it on as soon as you've passed by. At 4:36, I think he's a bit shy. If it's the same type, in New Zealand, they're known as harvestman spiders and weave a scrappy sort of web up where the roof meets the wall and specially in the corners and if you disturb them in their web, they do a dance and because the are very thin, they are hard to see. Because they have long gangling legs, they are often mistaken for the Daddy-long-legs... a pseudo-arachnid. Great vlog.
beautiful boat
Thank you!
As I go back through some of your older videos; I'm reminded of all the interesting changes you made along the way.
Bloody loved this video, thanks for sharing
Great, another Vlog addiction.
Smooth motoring Skipper.
Watch out for the brickwork.
I hope she's got nice thick rubber side bumpers.
I've always thought old tires as tacky.
Found your channel via Greg Virgoe and since a narrow boat holiday is pretty high on my bucket list I thought I'll stalk you for a while. Gorgeous boat you've got there (not that I know an awful lot of others to compare it to). I love all the wood. Real classic! I just noticed that this video is already 6 years old. I wonder if you have a newer tour of your narrow boat? Would love to see what you did to it in the meantime. All the best! 🙏🏽😎
Thank you. I did a further, two-part, tour later, around vlog number 60-something I think
@@CruisingTheCut Found it! 👍🏽😉
what a cool boat
Thanks
Oh wow! I have only just found your channel and it's honestly brilliant. I'm currently am 16 and I dream of one day living on a canal boat! Yours is absolutely stunning and very informative! Just great.
Thank you! Very pleased you're enjoying it. Cheers.
+CruisingTheCut This was the first of your videos I had watched but I've managed to make my way through most of your blogs. Your channels great and I'm so glad I have found it.
You must have spent ages watching them! A marathon viewing session. Cheers :-)
Hi no never ever seen inside a boat ! Nice layout hopefully you enjoy !
I enjoyed the in depth video we have been watching several narrow boat blogs, as a result my wife’s considering a narrow boat Holliday.
I see why you went for this boat. I liked it the moment I saw the layout. A very comfortable and homey boat.
I truly enjoy seeing these narrow boats, your boat is quite beautiful. I live on the shore of The Rock River, in Northern Illinois
Where my wife and I live in a cottage of a home with our cruiser out back on a lift ready to go at a moment's notice but I for one would love to live on a boat or one like yours would make a great guest cottage.
+Greg Appelgren Thank you - maybe you could try to import one?!!
I've watched so many of these now i feel it's time for me to do a 'vlog' about what it's like to live in a house - i spend so much time watching these nice videos!
Hahaha do it!
@@CruisingTheCut I will - specifically for narrow boaters!😄😃
CruisingTheCut - Ok, I feel for copyright reasons I need to ask your permission to do a ‘cruising the landing’ video for this attempt - u may be offended!
Thanks, From Novelty, Ohio.
Love the narrowboat.
This is amazing. I had no idea this was a thing.
Me neither 2 days ago, youtube recommend me his video on a fuel boat. I immedeatly subbed.
It’s so much fun watching purchase to canal ready! So much to learn and do.
Already a true boater, thinking ahead about the Gin and Tonic.
Lol @ nautical name for front of the boat being the front :P. Nice cosy vids by the way.
+eezZzee Thank you!
Despite the fabric on the sofa, that is a very beautiful boat.
I'm looking forward to your remodeling project.
Cheers!
Can I just say, that is a gorgeous boat, very unusual woodwork with the rounded corners. I can see why you went for this one!
Thank you!
WOW am jealous, what a GREAT boat and super investment. DEF way better then a caravan, lived in my 32 foot travel trailer when moving and that wasn't fun, and only in it for couple months. This has SO much more room.
Thank you. Yes, it's very spacious for a compact space, if that makes any sense.
Nice tour, I like the retro decor and the boat, Thanks
Well the decor's changed a lot since then, the dinette's got new cushions and the wicker chairs have gone!
Fantastic boat!
I have thoroughly enjoyed your "Cruising the Cut' Vlogs. and now I find some of the really early ones now popping up No: is the youngest so far, perhaps No: 1 will emerge and then I could enjoy the whole series.
As I have enjoyed to the more 'technical bits' from engine maintenance and the 'never-ending' routine care, replacement, upgrades to the CRT operations such as lock repairs, dredging etc.
Being from Australia, I have found it both informative and entertaining.
Thank you👍
Hello! Never rely on CZcams recommendations; just click on my channel name then Videos and they're all there in order. You should be able to search by "oldest first" though that option seems to disappear sometimes
@@CruisingTheCut Thank you so much, I'll give that a try
Reminds me of that time I lived in my van and traveled cross Canada for a couple years
What an interesting and refreshing journey,thanks for taking us along David.
Thanks for watching.
...#4 and having a great time...
I enjoyed the video and Your boat Is lovely!
I had entirely forgotten that early wicker furniture hoo whee that upholstery was a choice
Surprisingly comfortable but no way was it staying.
Hi David..love watching your travels on the canals...keep it up...Allan
great tour David--fun to see.
Thank you for the tour
:-)
Super tour. Thanks for the film. From what you said and if your plans come to fruition, the boat will look superb
This looks like the life
I'm enjoying your adventures. My parents owned a number of small yachts over the years, and they went through many trials and tribulations in the process, but they dearly loved cruising California's Delta. They also ended up renting a narrowboat for a few weeks, and were thrilled with the experience..
Excellent. Thanks for watching :-)
Watching from Canada. Just started watching your Channel from the beginning, after getting hooked by watching some random Vlog's.
My wife and I own and vacation in a 23 ft / 7 m travel trailer (Caravan), but your narrow boat... Gorgeous!
looks good, I must say i am jealous of all the space
Yeah, it's pretty decent I must say, no problem storing everything.
Thanks for a great video, just starting out, deposit paid on mooring and I’ll be at a place you stayed at, apparently the manager is on your channel. Hoping to sell bungalow and get a narrow boat in 3 months. Like you I do a lot of filming but never on the canal or mooring.
All I've ever wanted to be was a slob, a tidy one though not like onslow.
Very interesting and I am looking forward to the rest in the series . From here in California the UK is exotic , and the canal system is (God , I almost said "quaint" ) something new to me. Thank You for making them. Nilo
Ha! Quaint it is!! Cheers
Beautiful boat.
Lovely boat what company built it , great job, great video, thanks for sharing with us all. 👍🇬🇧
Brilliant video.
Would be interesting to see how much changed now.
See the later tour videos, I think it was 63 and 64 (ish)
Thanks for this video :-) 👍
Your boat like your van is very cosy love it
Thank you
Loved the title of the last video by the way hahaha
I'm really enjoying these vlogs! thanks for sharing 😊 I would love to own a narrowboat someday. keep up the good work 👍
Haha, if you've just started you've got LOADS more to watch :-)
CruisingTheCut excellent 😎 it must seem like an age since you posted this one lol.
It does!
Excellent video David I do hope your not as harsh with the previous owners tho Lol 😂
Looks wonderful!
Thank you. It's changed a LOT since that video. New tour coming soon.
Lovely. Very excited to see how you get on...
Oh, you've got LOADS of catching up to do ;-)
Loved your sound of music reference ;-)
Great Vlogs, seen the lot twice,keep them coming, thanks.
That's very dedicated :-) cheers
A very nice boat, Im happy for You, enjoy for long time. TH
Thank you. I've done a more up to date tour which you'll find on my channel. Cheers.
In the USA, propane canisters are white. Red seems more appropriate, actually.
Makes sense, right?
I have to laugh, I think the upholstery was chosen by my grandparents. It all looks so familiar.
Very cool....
I find this extremely interesting, here in Maritime Canada, we don't have a canal system plus with our long and cold winters where the rivers freeze over owning a boat is really a luxury item. Plus the fact that I'm disabled and a Type 2 Diabetic, I tend to subscribe to things like this to kind of live out what I would have liked to do.
Thanks. I hope you find the rest of the videos equally interesting! Cheers.
Well, given I've always dreamed of living on a houseboat since I was a kid and watched a comedy movie with Jimmy Stewart in it all I've got to do is win the Powerball or Mega Money lotteries then move to England and by one of these awesome floating homes..
Yes, I know how to handle boats given I'm a U. S. Coast Guard Veteran who lived in the Florida Keys for 10 years and actually rented houseboats.
They can be tricky on windy days but that just separates the Captains from the Mates.
I recently commented on one of your videos that "you're my hero!" I should have clarified, maybe hero is a term used far too frequently and inaccurately, after all you're not fighting fires or going off to war here. However, I am quite enamored with your choice of selling up and living full time in a canalboat. So many of us can make excuses as to why we can't do it, but you've put all that aside and put your money where your mouth is, so to speak. For that, I applaud you and, in the meantime, all I can do is watch your vlogs with full respect and a small sense of envy. I've thoroughly enjoyed the weeks I've spent on hire boats on Britain's inland canals and waterways, including last year on the Norfolk Broads, but living it full time is a whole other level of commitment.
So, thank you for posting these videos. I will continue to watch, continue to be a little envious (when things are going well and the weather is nice,) and I'll surely learn a few things along the way. Be safe, have fun, and best of luck to you. ---Cheers from Rich, Connecticut USA
Thank you! Yes, "hero" is rather over-egging the pudding I think!! Glad you like the videos.
As a recent subscriber, I could not agree more with BloomingOnion. As someone who works in learning and development, I watch the way you are doing your vlogs with interest. You make it look really easy but I'm sure a lot of work goes into your videos and you are very authentic in your approach. No wonder more and more people are watching real people (like yourself) on CZcams rather than heavily coiffed actors or so called personalities. You've followed your dream and hats off to you!
Thanks, Alistair, much appreciated!
Good seems everything OK. Nice tour thanks as we don't see narrow boats.
Thank you; if you scroll through my channel you'll find a more up to date tour after I made some changes :-)
epic video
Thank you
The new tech heating system is gonna be great in the cold times. Coal burning stoves may be traditional but an unneeded tradition.
Oh, I never use the "new tech" central heating. The stove is much nicer to have on and keeps the boat very toasty indeed.
I like your boat
Thanks!
nice living room; aint seen a saloon but guess some boats have them
The living room on a narrowboat is called a saloon.
hmmm, the salon furniture kind of suits you, right? LOL, would be fun for some to build their own but you need skills, tools, time. cheaper, maybe.
love the boat....looks great
Thanks. Wait til you see the much newer tour!