Realtime Narrowboat Journey - Teddington to Limehouse on the Tidal River Thames.
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- čas přidán 17. 09. 2020
- Join us for a realtime narrowboat journey from Teddington Lock to Limehouse Lock and Marina on the Tidal River Thames. No music, no talking, just the entire journey in real-time, with actual audio, recorded from the bow of narrowboat Silver Fox in August 2020.
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How absolutely fabulous, we all get to spend a few hours experiencing Narrowboat Silver Fox... More of these in future please xx
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Indeed
Thank you, Colin for the great videos we just love the real time not a vlog.
For us it is just like we are on your boat. It is a bonus and hope you do some more.
It is good to see your happy faces in your weekly Vlogs
Awesome, thank you!
I've found this to be a perfect companion resource for mindful meditation - sitting outside on a cold night, bundled up in my rocking chair. Not sleeping but beautiful sleep later.
Sounds great!
I have a feeling i'll be going to sleep to the familiar slap slap of water passing under the bows for quite some time with your excellent video here. Lovely.
Yeah, it does slap about a bit x
Will put this on the big TV tonight and chill out a bit after a long work day. Thanks for sharing!
Enjoy!
A magical few hours cruising with you, thanks for sharing your journey xx🥰
Glad you enjoyed it!
These real time videos show clearly how intrepid you two are. Brilliant. Tony
Cheers, Tony.
We watch you religiously from Independence, Missouri USA!! While watching this we followed along on Google Maps too. Hope to travel by narrowboat someday too! Best wishes.
You'll have a great time if you do it 👍🏻
When is a Vlog not a Vlog?
When there's no banter!
Good to hear the natural world too.
Cheers Gray
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Oh, I am loving the sound of the water and the birds. Thanks muchly! Gloria 🐂
Glad you enjoyed it
This ride was a dream! I lay in a relax chair, listened to birds chirping in my headphones and used the almost 4 hours to get to know London from the water. I actually love the quieter areas, but this ride was a pleasure. That's exactly what I needed today!
Awesome, so glad you enjoyed it x
I'd love to see some of these in the canal routes! So calming with the sound of the water. :)
Glad you like them!
31/2 hours (plus) of total relaxation, so absorbing I didn't even fall asleep.thats the most relaxing time I've had for a very long time .Thank you both.
Wonderful! Thank you so much xx
The narrow boat journeys make for perfect "slow tv" while I sit on an easy chair surfing the internet. The water sounds are soothing, the low camera angle makes it seem like you are going fast but then someone sculls right past! Thank you for your good work.
Glad you enjoyed it xx
Hello from Arizona in the U.S. Thank you for this. A year ago June my son and I stayed along your route in Richmond. New subscriber, but been watching all along. This summer in Arizona we have had record breaking heat with over 50 days above 43 degrees Celsius. You bring weekly refreshment with your watery voyage and joyful love of life.
That is awesome!
Oh my, wasn't that just glorious! Coffee in hand, laying in bed, what a perfect way to start the very early day. Thankyou, guys!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful, and excellent quality. Thanks. I hope you'll be offering us more like this as you cruise the waterways, especially any of the longer lock-free sections.
P.S. I've just coughed up a PayPal donation by way of thanks for these, and all the rest of course. Much appreciated.
A couple of channels already do these but we'll post the interesting stretches 👍🏻
So kind. Thank you!
Had to watch this late at night so there'd be no interruptions. Very relaxing and loved the sound of the bow water. Had to fast fwd a few times but loved it. Must have dozed zzzzz off on approach to Limestone Marina as ur horn blasts woke me! Fantastic manoeuvring into the marina, Shaun, and a reassuring voice of Colin at the end. T'is now Thurs 0030hrs.... ooo almost Friday again. Vloggggg!
Night guys 🌙 xx
Awesome! Thank you!
After watching the highlights last week I could make out different points of interest and I have never been to London so that was cool. Going under Tower Bridge knowing how excited you were about that and the horn blasts we knew now that we would be turning. It was so cool. I presume that we were hearing the bow thrusters as you were coming into Limehouse lock and then how clear the mic picked up the conversation at the end. That us a great experience thanks for sharing 👍😎💖
Thank you! 👍🏻
This popped up today and I have to say, "I am really glad you did the canal videos because it introduced me to two wonderful gentlemen and funny fellows. I probably wouldn't be following you four years on if not for your Silver Fox.
Nice trip and so loved hearing the birds and sound of water....so soothing.
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Glad you enjoyed it x
This is exactly what I needed today after burying a friend. Thanks ❤
You're so welcome!
Two double decker buses meeting in the middle of Tower Bridge, the quintessential London picture.
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Just lovely.
Mesmerizing, in fact.
The White Noise of the water is lovely for a tinnitus sufferer!
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. 😘😘
Many thanks!
Slow TV like this is perfect to play as background noise to help me fall asleep , and with this video I ended up dreaming I was on a boat which was really nice.
Wonderful!
If I closed my eyes for long enough I’d probably be able to fall asleep as I know how narrow boating feel and how calming it is as my grandparents take us on one for two weeks every year
That's one of the reasons I released these videos. Lovely and calming.
Thank you SO MUCH for creating and posting this video. I am "watching " it for the third time ( I"m packing my house to move) and between the tranquil water sounds, and the beautiful scenery, it is like a mental massage with a cuppa during breaks. I'm sure I will be wearing this one out! ^5 ( That's a high five) for a job well done!! :-D
Thanks so much! Best of luck with the move 👍🏻
That was incredible. As great as it is to enjoy the fun, facts and frivolities of the other videos, this brings home what appears to be the joys of canals and narrow boating. Thank you for posting this.
Thank you!
Wow! Watching that lock was so interesting!!!
Very restful, apart from popping to the loo a few times with all that running water sound, add the return trip like this as a single video and voila 1st 7hr video for one of those night time relaxing channels... :-)(edit. Pull the audio and do a fade to black after 10 minutes, 2nd channel coming 'Chill with the Foxes')
Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻
Watching this “not vlog” for the second time. During the first viewing and now this second viewing I am so enjoying the sounds of the river over the bow of the boat. I would love to have a copy of the sound track on a cd so that I can play it at night when I go to bed; the sounds are so relaxing and would be a wonderful way to fall asleep. Perhaps you could make and sell a cd for all to enjoy. Love following your vlogs.
There's loads of them already available 😉
Thoroughly enjoyed every moment of that! Thank you for sharing this unique perspective, along your journey. What a treat, indeed!
Many thanks!
Great stuff guys!!
Happy memories, you were so lucky, almost a millpond!! I'll be interested to see the difference on the return journey in the afternoon, more trip boats, I bet!
Thanks for that, was great!
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Wow, glorious...How peaceful to be on this river, a lovely moving painting..❤️ Thank you lads, I was lucky to be at the Tolkien Society online Oxonmoot this weekend and got a chance to extol your work to fellow Yorkshirefolk. Brilliant by all accounts! Sending love and hope you and the puppy get a good rest before your next adventure!
Glad you enjoyed it
Your videos are helping me so much. In addition to the restrictions, we had a temperature of -18 (Fahrenheit ) here (Minnesota) today. I can hardly wait until Spring. In the mean time, I will cruise the canals with you. Thank you
Wonderful!
lovey to see and get to see what you see thanks
Our pleasure, Marc!
This was awesome! So relaxing and calming. Great for us landlubbers, to pretend we are being ferried along, without a care in the world 😊
Mind you I still got the heebie-jeebies as you steered into Limehouse Lock 😱
Haha. Yeah, definitely a wake-up moment 😂
I've got this playing on the TV while I'm working away. Great way to start the weekend, thanks for uploading this. You gents have a great weekend!
Give Otis a good scratching for me.
Enjoy!
Now I know what to put on when I can't sleep. Really soothing. Some of my ancestors lived at Limehouse I wonder if they ever worked on barges etc on the Thames and I'm retracing their boating through this clip. Yes I know, strange idea but you never know. I'm a New Zealander so the canal world is fascinating to me, if I lived in the UK and was 20 years younger .......
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I'd miss all three of you if this became a regular feature, but tonight I've poured (several) glasses of wine and am enjoying it so much! What a beautiful journey!
We put all those on a separate channel now CZcams.com/BritainbyNarrowboat
This is so lovely to have on in the background while I work. Thank you for posting it! I loved watching London slowly appear in the distance 😊🤓
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a great trip - going past two of the places I've lived Brentford and then Barnes!
glad you enjoyed this one, Andy. Awesome trip xx
Loving all your videos, great production work Colin and great level head Shaun, you guys are a mighty team. I bet you guys were glad the bow thruster worked as designed when coming into limehouse. Mike in New Zealand.
Thanks 👍
I am grooving to the sound of the water. Can't wait to see more.
Thank you for this. It helps a lot when I can't travel. Makes me feel like I am there with you,Mr. Hero and Mr. Nightmare!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You two are so lucky!im loving it😍
Thank you! 😃
Hi Silver Foxes! I'm watching this trip for the third or fourth time, with more enjoyment on every pass. I live on the Tidal Thames at Twickenham - you went by my windows. Though I've done the downstream voyage twice, places look so different from the water that I've never had a chance to get my bearings properly. Now I've got the A-Z open on my left and Wikipedia's illustrated list of London crossings on my right, to answer the perennial question, "Where exactly are we?"
Thanks for doing this, and for Limehouse to Brentford. And your vlogs. Respect.
thanks so much, Yvonne!
This is just lovely. Thank you.
Glad you like it!
What a beautiful gift!😍 Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Lovely to see you both looking so happy. That BBQ looked great. Take care and looking forward to you next video.
Thanks so much
This was beautiful. I found your channel in the recent lockdown, never thought I would find canal boats and canals so fascinating (I do!!!) I have caught up with all of your videos. I find this one so calming especially during this stressful time and as a London girl, seeing the landmarks and the bridges that I know so well make me happy until we get to go out again! Keep them coming 😊😊
Welcome aboard! Ah, yes. This is popular because I'm not rattling all the way through it 😂
Haha we enjoy the rattling 🤣 really enjoy them!
I just love these Real Time blogs. Very relaxing. I play the on the big screen. Most of our canals rivers are dry.
We are in a drought. One rain in 6 months.
Glad you like them!
That was awesome....really enjoyed the Limehouse Lock....adrenaline stuff with that water coming at you...well done Shaun and of course you too Colin...can go asnd finish my red wine now😉👍
Glad you enjoyed it
This is fantastic. You could actually use the sound of the water for meditation purposes (which I probably will later!) We need more stuff like this to heal our broken world.
Close your eyes and just chill. We all need more of that!
This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing. 🌺🍀🌺
Thank you too!
So beautiful. Was loving watching it and then I started getting motion sick. Lol leave it to me the only place it happens is on a boat and apparently real time videos of boating. You are both so wonderful sharing your voyage!!
Oh no!
I love this guys. So peaceful
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After watching vlog #120 and seeing the real time. I can see your concerns with the wall. Shaun indeed did a fantastic job! I must admit, in the vlog I was holding my breath when SF was entering the gate... lol😅
Awesome! Thank you!
I put this on playback speed x 2 and you really could list these as ASMR. Personally, I love these visuals as much as the water sounds, although there is a huge following of ASMR on CZcams Look into it, they are easy to make, with little editing. Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. 💙💜
Interesting!
@@FoxesAfloat Yes, just put the keyword "ASMR" in the title of this and the other realtime video and any future unspoken video footage. Love your work
I am going to sound like a geek here, but if you posted these sort of videos on a regular basis, I would watch them.
Yeah, we are looking at it 😉
This is really good. Put it on tv with a bit of gentle music in the background. Bliss. Hope you do more of these. A map showing your position in the bottom corner would really have put the icing on it.
Thanks guys.
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Wow that was amazing. Hope everything was tied down some very choppy periods. The last 20 mins or so were gripping can imagine how you guys felt with that water gushing out at you. Thank you for sharing this amazing journey with us. Well done Shaun 💕👀🙌
Glad you enjoyed it
New subscriber. Found your channel from the Lodge Guys. Love watching your journeys and the history lessons along the way.
Welcome aboard!
Would have frightened me to death in that big lock, I can see why you were hanging on for dear life to Silver Fox 😱😱🤣😊🐶💜
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saying hello from Philly..I wish I could be there with you...I don't know why but I always end up on these Narrow Boat Channels...Thank You soooo much for this...*VVchan hugs you so kindly* Ja Ne VV
Our pleasure 💜
Thank you, I love this
You're welcome 😊
I followed along on Google Earth. Loved it.
It was great zooming in and out to see where you were.
The big TV had your video, while GE was on the computer.
I'm in Melbourne Australia but did an eight day canal boat trip a couple of years ago. My dream would be to do more.
Awesome! Thank you!
Really enjoyed that. Two different vlogs, really - the journey down the river, as it gets progressively bigger and more tidal, and then the turn and entry into Limehouse - scary just to watch it at home! (Starts just after 3:25, with the warning horn, if anyone just wants to watch that bit.) Without those bow thrusters, you'd have been in trouble! But I appreciate Shaun's skill even more now, he had to hit those angles exactly right - having never done it before! Amazing stuff. And I see what you mean about Limehouse lock being scary too - all that water! Another world altogether from what you're used to on the canals. A lovely ending as well, as you drift out of the lock into the calm and 'normality' of Limehouse marina. Why the cut in the lock though - did the GoPro run out of storage or something?
What time in the vlog is the break?
@@FoxesAfloat Sorry, took me a while to check this. It's at 3:35:45 - a few seconds after the water really starts to rush in, there's a 'fade' (?) where the view suddenly changes and the boat is higher than it was a few seconds before. This sort of thing is so common on the edited vlogs that it took me a while to spot that it had happened!
Love this - I'm working from home and the sound is a great background!
Wonderful!
@@FoxesAfloat It was until you got to the Limehouse turn, blew the horn for the turn and scared the crap out of me. :) :)
Thanks for the boat ride
Any time 👍🏻
Love this!
Thank you!
Hey Guys, very interesting real time video. Got an idea of the pace down the Thames. I honestly did scene jump to sections I'd seen in your vlog version (while I was eating lunch). I did want to watch the - full time - of the turn into Limehouse, and the lift in the lock to the marina level. I must say, the bow view is a bit intense (and frightening), what with the amount of churning water pouring into the lock, let alone the sound. Ah... but deep breath, and enjoy the ride.
The bow camera is definitely a different and unique view of cruising the waters.
Cheers....
Yeah, it's a different journey from the bow cam.
I watched the whole thing only to find out that the Bow Thruster noise covered up the "instructions" from Colin to Sean when they entered Limehouse.
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I know I won't probably ever get to experience this myself, its nice to watch as we can't do anything here right now. It feels like going on an adventure without being there XD i should get a VR head set and just relax.
Yeah, greta to chill to!
Just the thing I need while working to keep things relaxed!
Perfect!
Hi guys I found this very 😌 love it 😀
It felt like I was on the boat
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for letting me know this was here.
Thanks, John! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
my old home ..eel.pie island .bless
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It's a long run but also a little fun to try to spot the clips you use for the vlog. There's sooooo much to look at along the way.
haha! Just goes to show how much we DON'T use in the vlogs 👍🏻
@@FoxesAfloat And how much work you do with the editing too!
Amazing. Thanks
Our pleasure!
That turn into lime house looked scary.
Yeah, clenched a bit there! 😬
Westminster Bridge marks the central section of the river Thames between there and Tower Bridge. Look out for Hungerford (aka Charing Cross Bridge) and Blackfriars. Of course, the latter has rebuilt and you may see a glimpse of the trains. Before the rebuilding, you can see the trains as clear as day, into and out of the station.
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@@FoxesAfloat I should also mention Cannon Street railway bridge, within a five minute boat ride from Blackfriars Bridge. You may see trains sticking out of the terminus. Above it is an office development (which replaced an arched roof that was destroyed decades ago) between the station's twin towers. Grovesnor Railway Bridge when one train crosses the river and heads for the terminus at Victoria, several hundred yards away. Steam trains and railtours have crossed over the latter bridge down the years, and still to this day.
PS (as always!) - my computer didn't automatically swith to HD, so I spent the first few minutes wondering why the quality was so low. So it's worth checking when you start watching - the difference is really noticeable, and makes the Thames and its surroundings look so much better. The London Tourist Board really should 'borrow' this video! Oh, and turn up the sound as well - you need to really hear the water!
Hehe, thanks! Yeah, the quality automatically adjusts to the best for the signal but always worth changing it 👍🏻
Good luck guys
Thanks Allan!
If I sit real close on my exercise ball I can feel the journey.
Nice one 😂
@@FoxesAfloat when I wave at the rowers I know I need to take a break!
@@victorspaw2k you too????
Well that was fun. Two pots of tea and I've finished my packet of bourbons. Wow those lock gates close up are weird and bloody dangerous. Glad you guys as I know from the other vblog were OK.
I did like this type all the noises of the water and surrounding going ones.
More please when you can. Are you making it in a different playlist. ?.
Thanks guy's 😀
A brilliant record of an extraordinary journey. Thank you. 👍😀 what an experience it must have been sat in Limehouse Basin Lock! 😱
We will be doing more of these but there's a couple of channels that do them already so we'll stick to the interesting route 👍🏻
@@FoxesAfloat don't worry guys. I know them very well. Just like yourselves guys. 😃.
@@FoxesAfloat but most of those i have watched...on the more rural canals ...you cant really hear the wildlife due to loud engines on their narrowboats. I grew up in the country and now i live 1/2 mile from a busy parkway and i miss the sounds of nature without the constant noise pollution. Your engine is much quiter qnd frankly i think i would watch a vlog every day with you on a rural canal during my naptime if you made it.( over and over again) love you 2 *** add Otis too..XOXOX
Fascinating, thanks v. much for posting this.
Did you arrive at Limehouse Lock at a pre-arranged time; or did you aim to arrive at a certain state of the tide (it looked like an ebb tide close to Low Water); or did you just turn up between the Lock's opening hours and enter on the green lights (or, if they had been red, tie up just before the bottom gates & wait)?
We arrived at a pre-arranged time, but the tide also had to be right. 👍❤️
@@FoxesAfloat Thanks.
If this video is downloaded as an mp3 it will make a good meditation/sleepsound audio👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Good idea!
Planning a trip along the K&A next year
Have fun!
Hello. Love the Vlogs. Just finished binge watching from the beginning. I saw online the other day, these Vlogers who film in 360 Degrees. I thought to myself, what if a narrow boat Vloger did the same thing? A video like this would be cool in VR. Or when you describing something, we could be on the boat with you and look where you point. Just a thought.
It would, but the data involved is stupid and CZcams don't support it yet.
Foxes Afloat I’m sure the data involved is immense, making it impractical, but it is possible on CZcams - there are channels that have used it.
How did you keep so quiet during entire run? Not a peep from the stern!
Oh we made plenty of noise, the mic on the front camera just didn't pick us up xx
Does it get to be pretty exhausting navigating for more than a few hours?
It is quite tiring.
Absolutely awesome Foxies. Sat watching it on tv and following on Google Maps. Confused by Richmond lock and weir ... you went under a bridge 🤪🤪🤪 but apart from that learnt a lot. Amazing lock entry Shaun ... I've been through a few in Brittany with its 40' range of tides but none were as scarey as this. If you get time ... what were the four blasts before the two turning to port ones as you turned across the river? Keep safe guys, you cheer us up more than you could know 👍👍
Awesome thank you!
How sad, CZcams has put ads every five minutes or so into this video. What was my go to calming lovely video is now yet another video CZcams has turned into ads for garbage I don't want. FoxesAfloat is one of my favorites and it's sickening that their video has been used like this.
Hi Suzie. We’re aware of this and have moved all our Real-time videos to our other channel called ‘Britain by Narrowboat’ where there are no mid’roll adverts 👍🏻
@@FoxesAfloat Thank you so much for this information. You both are my favs and I find your videos interesting as well as highly entertaining. You provide a unique view of Britain most will never get a chance to see. Don't stop!!!! Ever!!!!
Hi Colin and Shawn did you do this trip twice one in real time and the second one in september
No, it's all the same trip as the vlogs.
Hi, is there any chance you tell me the best canal guide books to get.? My husband and I love your Chantal, we watch all the time.
We use the Nicholson's guide and Pearson's Canal guides 👍🏻
Foxes Afloat thank you x
I want a t- shirt that says. ..." You can't say that" no pictures just the saying.
Black tea with white lettering simple and easy
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Well, that’s one way to get your watch time . 👍
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.. Quiet an adventure gentlemen !
Loved it!
@@FoxesAfloat I used to know that upstream area fairly well before we came to NZ in '76 - I was itching to see the flats opposite Battersea Power station wear my missus lived 'till we wed ... but hell there's been so much building over those years eh.
@@martinkavanagh196 The river front has changed out of all recognition in the last 40 years. I worked in London only 20 years ago, and I can't recognise large parts of the river front now, East and west of the central area it was all industrial, warehousing, etc (and, of course, in the Pool itself), now it's almost entirely flats - none of which the average Londoner could ever afford. Moscow on the Thames.
@@paulhaynes8045 cheers Paul - I read that some of the blocks just sit empty.
Don't have almost four hours but if I did. Still given a Like though.
Thank you 💜👍🏻
Guess I know what I’m doing this evening.
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