Living in London on a CANAL BOAT [Uma Daily #5]
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- čas přidán 17. 09. 2018
- [Vlog Date: Sept 18th]
Definitely a challenge to film, edit and post this one the same day, but the extra hard work was totally worth it! We spent the day hanging out with our Patron Nevil near London, who took us for a spin on his 61' narrowboat / home
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What a nice gentleman on the canal boat. Nicely done guys.
Kudos guys for holding true to your video every night pact! Keep up the great work your fans appreciate it!!
Can’t afford a mortgage, don’t want to live in an apartment complex... buy a boat! What a cool guy and love his alternative lifestyle.
They used to be very affordable. Not as good as it used to be. But still better than a town home.
beyond awesome!!!!!!!!!! oh the life
J B Have you got any idea how much a residential mooring in London costs? You're looking at a minimum of £8,000 a year IF you can find one, which is highly unlikely. In addition to this, you need your CRT licence at around £1,000 a year, council tax (yes it's still payable on a residential mooring) that's another £1000. You're looking at over £10,000 a year absolute minimum. Many people buy a boat without a mooring, and abuse the continuous cruising licence by staying on one small stretch of canal. They risk having their licence revoked and ultimately having their boat impounded. They also clog up the canals so genuine visiting boaters cannot moor. Promoting living on a boat in London as a cheap alternative is completely irresponsible.
has a few cons so is not all that cool... see other videos... he made it sound too easy but is not... toilet, electricity, water....
@@inakiwebtube electricity is as easy as buying between 1 and 5 solar panels, for 500 pounds or so
Way to go, Neville...very cool boat/home, and thank you for sharing it with us!! 👍👍
This is so awesome! You guys should totally get one for when the weather is bad or you want a change of pace. Rent it out as an Airbnb or something when you’re on Uma.
I've been on a couple of canal boats for a bit and electric would be cool. Though in the ones I have been in the engine was beneath the area you would stand with the tiller and I would miss being able to take off ones footware and feel the warmth of the engine radiating through the deck when it was cloudy and a bit chilly. Such a pleasant feeling.
And those low bridges being as easy to reach as they are were always a challenge for my friends, can you climb up and over the bridge and back down the other side before the boat has finished passing under. We were never in London or really in the middle of any city when we'd do that though. Probably something that would be frowned upon and they were often quite dirty but was a lot of fun when younger.
When travelling Europe a couple of years ago, we rented a converted oil barge in Roterdam harbour via a VRBO/AirBNB type site. Much wider than the canal barge here, nice gardens on the roof and deck areas. Wood stove to keep the chill off, soft close drawers and cupboards. Fabulous.
In the evening look out the porthole and see the harbour wall, wake up in the morning and you are at street level.
I'd do it again in a heart beat.
I’m so pleased you had the chance to see the canal boats, I have walked the Regent’s Canal many times, this was the process that lead me to the sail cruising path too!
Have fun, cheers Nigel
Canal boat! What a charming lifestyle!
(I'd probably forget where I parked mine.)
Ha thats funny yer i would definitely forget...
Loved this video! Again, the quality of your video work is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!
Really excited. Have to discuss some ideas when u come here next time.
This was such a cool episode!! I've always been interested in canal boats so thanks so much for sharing this adventure with us !!!
The very best of your uma daily’s so far!!
Great video. Neville was so generous to share his home.
So, imagine an electric solar setup with a servo motor at each end for extra maneuverability (easy 180s wherever there's adequate width). Then add a wireless controller (like those consoles for construction vehicles) so you could operate the boat from bow, stern, or even land.
Perhaps a ducted jet setup would be better than props to not have to worry about the weeds.
Very cool boat and life style. Thank you for sharing!
Broadcast quality filming and editing! An absolutely gorgeous boat. First time I've seen the inside too. Reminds me a bit of the older railroad Pullman coaches.
Wow guys. Those smiles were possibly the biggest I seen them on you and I have been watching since the start. So good to see you getting to do something that you so obviously love and not having to work your butts off to do it. Wonderful stuff :)
Very cool! And thanks to Nevil for sharing his home with us!
What with Coronavirus running rampant across the UK, this is starting to appeal to a wider audience as a viable way to escape the trappings of life.
Love the narrow boat and concept of just moving around London waterways.
Hey Guys. 9 years living aboard my s.v.Someday and have had such a great time following y'all. yes I'm a Texan. thank you so much for sharing your adventures with us. Bravo.
I love the narrowboat with the sarangi and bansuri-playing Neville! I worked in the music industry for 30 years and have produced albums with traditional Indian instruments, sarangi and bansuri-players among them. Love your Uma Daily series!
Ah. That brings back great memories of our time on the canals. Thanks for sharing.
Life in a Nutshell hey! I know you guys! Get back to your boat and quit Lilly gagging with Uma!...love your content, keep up the good work...it’s...NOT BAD!
Hi Again! :)
Lovin these daily updates!
Nice work Nevil, glad you made London work for you! Good film guys.
Awesome! Thank you and Nevil for the detailed tour. Longboats have been on our radar for some time now. We would love to explore inland by boat....after we're done sailing of course. 😉
France and some of the other European countries have larger canals that an take yachts, motoring of course but, locks and draft would be ok.
It sure if we are supposed to mention other channels so delete if there is an issue. Sailing Magic Carpet, sail for Switzerland to the South Of France into the Med in a sail boat
@@philthefarrier9469 thanks for sharing 🙏
So each day we get a different style on the intro and content. Love it.
I TOTALLY love this! What a great way to live! Tiny adventures every day.
That was awesome, those boats are really cool, thanks for showing !
Wow that really is interesting, I never knew about that in London. Thanks for the vid!
Double thumbs up. My favourite from the entire UK visit episodes. 💕
How cool was that!
Thank for sharing!
One of my favourite channels is a narrow boat channel, the narrow boat experience. :) Great video and a very cool guy.
Superbly presented video... a fantastic insight and well done Nevil. We have a distant relation who has just picked up a canal boat, it's not for us but I know plenty of people who have holiday'd on them and had a fantastic time pub and lock hopping.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing!
love that canal boat, thanks for sharing.
Your videos are very good.
I did the Thames twice on a narrow boat as a kid with my family! Also the Shannon River in Ireland! So awesome I recommend it!
I live in the North of England and I'm surrounded by these canals. They were the superhighway of the industrial revolution. I looked at canal boats but then ultimately bought a yacht. Sadly that was lost when the 'Beast from the East' destroyed my marina and sank 80 other boats. Having come full circle I'm now looking at a canal boat as a live-aboard. The canals are close to work and if my job ever changes there are canals in all the main centre's nearby... Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Chester etc.
Love learning people. So much to share!
Those canal boats are fantastic! That’s great you had a chance to go on one.
Nevil is awesome! What a chill dude
that was awesome guys
It so weird i know your dad i work in Haiti for years working on CT for the radiolab and i come across your videos last week the world is not so small after all . love your viedos keep them coming
Wonderful details on this gentleman's vessel!
What an awesome boat and subculture i had no idea about. Also, Kika and Dan, absolutely incredible editing job on this video.. one day turnaround.. thats better than amazon.
Really enjoyed this video. Always cool to check out alternate lifestyles.
Love your sailingvid's and also a big fan of the narrows on youtube. Good insights on the electric engines on the narrowboats, was waiting for this for a long time now. You should make an extra stop in Belgium/Ypres. Lots of Canadian history to discover
The wooden interior of that boat is just gorgeous! 😍
We lived in England for three years back in the early 1990s and we lived on a long boat for a weekend and really loved it. The flute thing was really funny. I laughed out loud. Thanks guys. Great video. All the best, Jim and Donna Andersen, Cat Boat Adventures, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
WOW, what a way of life... So cool!!!
You said it,.. sweet. I knew about canallife in UK, like to do it once for a vacation. Like your vid again!
Really did enjoy seeing the canal boat. Remember seeing them on a couple of visits to England but never did have a chance to look at one.
Thanks for this. Definitely on my bucket list, for at least some x months to a year😂
Narrow boats are so relaxing. Up here in the Midlands there are loads. Lovely way to spend an afternoon on a friends boat.
LOL Its funny watching this knowing you already have the new sail drive installed on the sailboat. As soon as I saw the saildrive for the first time, I thought NARROWBOAT!!!
i love these boats and i love uma rock on
Guys a great episode, loved it and I can visualise you bot living on one at some time in the future
Welcome to Hackney! Most interesting part of London.
I've been watching the videos of London canal magnet fishers, but this gives a totally different perspective. Cool video, loved it.
Nice one guys!😁 I've a member of family living on the canals in France.....has even a baby grand🎹on board......
Like you love our ⛵boat but both worlds are cool!😍
Great videos very appreciative keep up the good work.
Hah. This is very close to what I'll be doing in the next few weeks. Great video and nice bumping into you guys at The Southampton Boat Show.
What a beautiful canal boat and a lovely gent!
Wow, how cool was Nevil’s 61’ houseboat 😱👍👌
Super cool! I could definitely be down with that lifestyle :) I was wondering about turning one of those things around before you guys talked about it. That definitely seems like one of the most challenging parts of having a boat that long!
Dam I was five miles away from you.......Take care guys.....Our paths will cross one day....x
PS all bridges and tunnels are the same height. The reason is that in the past cargo would be pulled by a horse but...through tunnels you would lay on your back and walk along the tunnel roof to push it through.
That boat is beautiful i always fancied living on a canal boat
Splendid !! Thank you.
great video. thanks very much for sharing.
Great video..love the lifestyle!
That's my dream!A solar narrowboat!Sooo glad you guys think it's cool.You should spend a week on one.You will end up horizontal!Great video!
How Cool? Just a totally different way of life on the water. thanks for exposing us to it!!
Fantastic video - as always.
Well - I want to make some general comments:
- These very old narrow canals are typical for mid- England and only there. As far as I know even some canals of that age in France are wider.
- The boat size is standard from that ancient times. There was a little room at the end were now the machine resides - there the family lived. They loaded mass products like cotton or coal and pulled the boats all the way.
- There was a German journalist from mayor TV station, that owned such a boat. Theirs was rusty - she had a new one built! Yes, these are still built.
- as far as I heard, more north of London you may even rent some for holidays. But most common there are plastic boats for holiday rent.
- in other countries house boats are also common - especially Netherlands. But there these are usually modified old river boats - much larger.
- Also the Dutch are famous: building new house boats as a complete village! But these reside on water all time in one place - nothing on to move it.
Weather: You just enjoy the rest of Europe's hottest summer ever. In other years you would already were socks, pullover and rain jacket.
Nice to see your enjoying you time here. Canal boat on the retirement plan lol? They can have Baw thrusters so that helps. They also hold value compaired to sail boats.
That was interesting. Thank you guys
This is an incredible video and a great source of information on narrow boat living from the perspective of a normal middle class person. I follow a few CZcamsrs that own narrow boats and I have been able to compare expenses for people who have the luck to follow this lifestyle. Since I live in South Florida where we have hundreds of miles of canals and one of the highest rent costs in the US, I am fascinated with the idea that narrow boats could present a great alternative living, specially in Miami. Since canals in South Florida are much wider than in England, narrow boats could resemble those in France where they are called river barges and have a width of about 12 feet. Most of the canals in Miami are interconnected and the main one is about 77 miles long. Many of them run throughout the city of Miami even in downtown. By the way, I understand that electric motors in narrow boats are a no no since owners love the chug chug sound of the diesel engine while cruising at 3 knots.
Home Studio Adventures For Dummies There are a couple of purely electric narrow boats on UK canals now although hybrids are starting to appear. The problem with electric is the weight of the boat. I have a 55’ narrowboat and it displaces 12 tons unloaded. It takes quite a bit of power to move it at 3mph. I have a 38hp Beta Marine diesel that moves it at 3mph at a constant 1500 revs. Where the canal is very shallow and narrow my speed will drop to 1 - 2 mph. An electric motor would soon use up the battery storage and it’s not that sunny in the UK. In December daytime is 9am - 4pm so often solar wont keep a 240v fridge running!
This is amazing!!! (And just like that... 100s of fans suddenly moved to London!) :)
London is a nice city
you guys were so close to me and I do jog along the canal, if I had seen you I think I would have fallen over.
That was interesting , thanks for taking me along, I have a similar river in my backyard, but they banned the house boats years ago.
Awe, thats a shame. House boats are awesome!
Thanks for sharing.
Cruising the Cut has a nice channel about life on a canalboat
Wow 👍. Too cool. How fun would it be to cruise the canals of Europe for a few years?!
Great video. Was that the Grand Union in West London?
Back in the 70s I had a friend who lived on a narrowboat in Paddington. During the late 70s and the mid 80s I had a couple of narrowboat holidays pottering around the Mid-lands for 2 weeks at a time. The area round Birmingham is one of the most interesting for urban history. There are about as many miles of canal in the city as there are in the rest of England! Going slow lets you see the scenery go past, and there are lots of pubs along canals!
To fully explore the connected English (and part of Wales) canal and waterway systems takes years. There are some excellent channels. Cruising the Cut is probably the most professionally presented for the very good reason that the owner of the boat in question was a professional TV journalist and presenters. However, if you want to see a couple on a mission to explore the entire navigable system, the look at the Minimal List channel, where Michael and Jo having been doing exactly that for three years. I think Michael is Canadian (although he used to work in LA) whilst Jo is English, although they both met whilst travelling the world. It's a charming channel.
Oddly as it might seem, whilst the canals have lost their original economic purpose, the network is gradually being expanded as old, abandoned canals are being expanded as part of the leisure and lifestyle industry. It's really quite a remarkable phenomenon, and it time it might be possible to again reach the South Coast of England if/when the Wey and Arun canal is restored.
Scotland's canals and waterways are not interconnected in the same way.
excellent. thanks folks ...
You guys could get one of the mini narrowboats that I've seen on CZcams. Those can even be trailered and taken easily to other countries.
Okay there young lady, you had this old biker fooled for a minute there thinking that you were playing that flute... LOL..
Sailboats are to slow paced for me. I'd NEVER make it on a long boat... I'm an older biker I need at least 45 mph. 60-75 mph is my happy spot... LOL... I need the wind in my face on a calm sunny day... LOL.. Great video thanks for sharing it... Be blessed...
BBE..
My older brother, 70, is still riding and repairing bikes for a living - his life passion. I fondly remember being put on the back of his super cool chopper in the 60s (Chicago) so I could carry stuff for him. He loved terrorizing me and my sisters. If your ever out in Escalante, UT, stop by ... he is the Desert Doctor... a Dr. of motorcycles.
What a cool canal boat!
Cheers from Southern California USA ~
Wow thanks for sharing Awesome!!
excellent vid
Your intro footage/audio was amazing! The use of the audio throughout the episode is superb!!!
Thanks!
We once did a canal trip with some friends from London to Bristol! Fabulous holiday and between Bradford on Avon and Bath for me was the most beautiful and interesting! We also have our bikes and cycled loads as well! Just the greatest and winter is a great time to do this holiday, the rates are very low!!!
www.waterexplorer.co.uk/gmaps/interactivecanalmap.aspx
Great vlog going back to the boat show you missed an excellent electric powered sailboat www.w1Da.com not connected to them just think it's right up your street
Sounds fun. Life in the slow lane can be very therapeutic.
I love this vid, nice energy ! I am thinking hard about living on a boat or a yacht. Oceans scare the shit out of me though (even though I love swimming in them) so maybe for riverways with a yacht and a barge for the slow life on canals. My only concern with a barge is steel and water, ie rust Fiberglass seems such a great material. I have also been a little bit seduced by classic wooden yacht's. Any thoughts appreciated
Sweet pad. Nice.
Thank you for interviewing this wonderful person's beautiful music studio home!
I've been trying to find more non-white and diasporic brown ppl in these alternative mobile living home/lifestyle channels and it's so hard!
Why would that be significant? Just people living on boats, so weird how some people virtue signal about skin tones. I am sure your intention is pure but in trying to be so "non racist" you actually are being.
There is an African model, Poppy Otoka (?) who has lived on a beautiful narrowboat for years with her (white) bf who is a well known architect. But I dont think they've ever done a video. Just photos.
@@justinwestcoaching Narrowboating is most definitely a "white thing."
Ahh you missed a great British reference! It's like the Tartis (Dr Who) it's bigger on the inside! What a cool guy and a sweet canal boat.
A lovely surprise i love the way you go past london zoo gibbon enc i think. Can be tricky in rivers when they flood .try a sailing wherry on the norfolk broads🐳🐳🐳😘
That was fun!!!
Thank you so much for showing the narrow boat. It caused me to get informed. Didn’t realize how extensive the network of canals is. Prices from 14 to 100k £. Cost as little as 3500£ per year all in. Great info thanks
Glad you liked it! They're a great way to live, if your looking for a unique twist on a tiny house.
I was impressed with you ability to play the flute.