Vlog 256: The Big Cheese
This is a long sit-down interview I did with the Chief Executive of the Canal & River Trust, Richard Parry (two videos)
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Vlog 255: The High Mile Club
In October last year (2021), my friends Jo and Michael (plus dog George) completed a four year epic trip around every navigable mile of the connected UK canal network. Along with many of their viewers, I went along to document the final five miles.
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Happy New Year; some YouTube ideas
On a chill-out New Year’s Day what could be finer than settling back with some excellent YouTube viewing so here I present four other channels that I really enjoy.
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Merry Christmas (and chocolate mousse)
Wishing my viewers a very Merry Christmas 2021 and a happy new year; plus bonus content of me in the galley knocking up a chocolate mousse.
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Vlog 254: The Forest for the Trees
In some of my early cruising videos I would moan about how much over-hanging vegetation there is along the canals but it turns out there’s a load of work going on behind the scenes in winter to cut the bad stuff back. This is a look at that work.
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Vlog 253: That Sinking Feeling
This is the terrible tale of how a woman who’d always dreamed of living aboard a narrowboat on the canals has had her dreams – and almost the boat – sunk because, she says, she was mislead by the professional surveyor on whose advice she bought the boat.
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Vlog 252: Reg Prescott
Boat life is much like owning a house inasmuch as there’s always something to be fixed or maintained or tarted up. Here’s a compilation of minor things I did around the boat over the last few months, including fixes after the boat failed its four-yearly Boat Safety Scheme examination.
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Vlog 251: The Bright Side of Life
This is a long video indeed. It covers the complete installation and configuration of an additional 540W solar panel along with two new Epever Tracer MPPT solar charge controllers and all the wiring etc.
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Vlog 250: Trow Believers
Built in the late 1700s but abandoned in the mid-20th century, the Stroudwater Navigation and the Thames & Severn Canal are currently undergoing a mammoth, volunteer-led programme of restoration. This is their story.
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Vlog 249: The Price is Right?
Prices of used narrowboats have shot up in the last couple of years; what do you now get for your money compared to just a few years ago? I went to broker ABNB to find out.
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