Category: Video

Posts including videos

Vlog 356: Fee Range

Posted on January 12, 2025 by David Johns

This is a long talky video in which I discuss the various costs associated with owning and running a canal boat whether traditional narrowboat or fibreglass canal cruiser.

Vlog 355: Plan 9

Posted on January 1, 2025January 1, 2025 by David Johns

Happy New Year and all the best for 2025; here’s a chatty little video with me discussing what I’m going to be doing in the coming year on this channel.

Image of a plate of Christmas dinner of roast turkey with vegetables.

Vlog 354: A Christmas Cracker

Posted on December 23, 2024 by David Johns

I was very grateful to be invited along to my friend Lorna’s 25-foot canal narrowboat for Christmas dinner along with our friends Andy and Steve. Lorna cooked us a fabulous roast turkey feast in her tiny galley and a good time was had by all.

Bonus video: Slow TV canal cruise

Posted on December 16, 2024December 16, 2024 by David Johns

This is the unedited ‘bow camera’ view of my recent trip on a narrowboat on the Gloucester & Sharpness canal, without voiceover and with just natural sound.

Vlog 353: Jolly Rhubarb

Posted on December 10, 2024December 10, 2024 by David Johns

I was delighted to join one of my Patreon supporters, Ian Davis, on his lovely narrowboat and we went for a short trip on the Gloucester & Sharpness canal, creating this “old style” (!) Cruising the Cut vlog which I hope you like.

Vlog 352: Asking Price

Posted on November 30, 2024November 30, 2024 by David Johns

I asked a well-known narrowboat broker what used boats fetch these days, who’s buying and what the trends in the market are. Hopefully useful info if you’re thinking of buying or selling a canal boat in 2025!

Vlog 351: Resins to be Cheerful

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by David Johns

This is part 4 of my complete transom rebuild. In this thrilling episode, I place reinforcing glass fibre into the inner skin of the transom using vinylester resin. And I get buzzed by a hornet (maybe).

Vlog 350: Glue Monday

Posted on November 10, 2024November 10, 2024 by David Johns

Having removed all the rotten transom wood (see the prior videos in my ‘Twiggy transom’ playlist, link below), I now needed to patch a couple of holes on the inner fibreglass skin. This video documents that process.

Vlog 349: A Soggy Bottom

Posted on October 30, 2024 by David Johns

Ignoring, for the moment, the vast gashes I have carved into the back of the boat which will need fixing later, in this episode I tear into the transom and start removing the – extremely soggy – wooden core.

Vlog 348: All aboard the Skylark!

Posted on October 20, 2024October 21, 2024 by David Johns

Although traditional steel narrowboats cost many thousands of pounds, even second-hand, there is a cheaper and easier way to get a foot on the water and that’s with a fibreglass cabin cruiser. In this video, I visit a woman who’s chosen exactly that as her first boat.