Category: Travels

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.

Vlog 276: Just Good Fens

Posted on August 30, 2022February 24, 2024 by David Johns

This is part 2 (of 3) of my cruise along the Middle Level Navigations on the Cambridgeshire Fens, as I took the narrowboat I’d borrowed from Whittlesey to March. It was windy and the skies were dull.

Vlog 275: Cruising the Canute

Posted on August 23, 2022February 24, 2024 by David Johns

I was lent a narrowboat for a week by two viewers of the channel! Starting in Peterborough, I took the boat off the River Nene and onto the Middle Level Navigations. This is part 1 of 3 of that week-long cruise.

274A Not a vlog: slow TV cruising

Posted on August 3, 2022February 24, 2024 by David Johns

This is an uninterrupted (almost, there are a couple of camcorder battery changes and a re-fuelling stop) video recording from the camera on the bow of a narrowboat as it travelled along the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire from Gayton Junction to Weedon Bec.