Category: Travels

Vlog 305: Left Turn, Clyde

Posted on July 23, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

This is Part 2 of the cruise I was invited on by the St Pancras Cruising Club. We went out onto the River Thames and east towards and through the Thames Flood Barrier, in a convoy of 16 narrowboats.

Vlog 303: A shark? In a London canal?

Posted on July 12, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

The Regent’s Canal runs through much of the middle of London and is a surprisingly peaceful oasis of calm amongst the hustle and bustle of the city. And yes, there is a shark! I joined the St Pancras Cruising Club who’d arrange for a huge convoy of boats to travel along the canal, assembling at Limehouse Basin by the end of the day.

Vlog 301: Challenge Accepted!

Posted on June 25, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

Every year, the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society hosts the 24-hour BCN Challenge with the aim to cover as much of the 100-mile BCN as possible. This is my account of being a passenger on the 2023 Challenge.

Vlog 299: Riveting Stuff

Posted on June 9, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

In order to film the boats featured in my last video, we took them out for a cruise. It was raining. Here is the footage from that gentle trip along the canal.

Vlog 297: A Wynn, Wynn Situation

Posted on May 21, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

If you’re a fan of boating on YouTube you surely must know Nikki and Jason Wynn, ex-RVers turned global sailors. Now having a brand new boat built, they decided to take a little time out to visit Britain and have a go at narrowboating. So I sorted them a 10-day trip on the Llangollen Canal.

Vlog 296: I Like To Move It, Move It

Posted on May 7, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

I spend a day with Connor Warner, a professional boat mover who takes customers’ narrowboats, cruisers, Dutch barges … you name it …. around the rivers and canals of Britain.

Vlog 291B: A Pirate’s Life For Me

Posted on March 16, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

This is Part 2 of the day I spent with Heidi, the Narrowboat Pirate, aboard her boat “The Rum Wench”. In this video, we cruise a little way up the Llangollen Canal in north Wales, starting from the Prees branch.

Vlog 285B: Jolly fun, they say

Posted on December 17, 2022February 24, 2024 by David Johns

Although normally prohibited to powered craft, with permission of the Cam Conservators in winter you can take a narrowboat onto the Cambridge “Backs” where the river Cam flows behind many of the city’s historic colleges.

Vlog 285A: To the Beyond of the Backs

Posted on December 5, 2022February 24, 2024 by David Johns

I was invited to take part in a trip that very few narrowboats are able to enjoy, along the “Cambridge Backs”. This is Part 1 of 2 of the journey.

Vlog 277: Without a Paddle

Posted on September 7, 2022February 24, 2024 by David Johns

This is the third and final part of my cruise along the Middle Level Navigations across the Cambridgeshire Fens on a borrowed narrowboat, in which I go up Well Creek.