Category: Video

Posts including videos

Vlog 21: The Gas Man Cometh

Posted on February 9, 2016February 24, 2024 by David Johns

A nasty discovery one day when I went to turn the gas bottle off as I left the boat, finding it leaking ever so slightly which it must have been doing since I installed it three months earlier.

Vlog 20: Dirty Laundry

Posted on February 4, 2016February 24, 2024 by David Johns

How on earth do you keep your clothes all clean and lovely whilst on board a narrowboat cruising round the canals? In this video, I explain the options.

Vlog 19: Socket To ‘Em

Posted on January 26, 2016February 24, 2024 by David Johns

In which I do a canal-oriented shopping “haul” type of Vlog and follow it with a intricate explanation of how to run a mains cable half the length of the boat in order to install more power sockets.

Vlog 18: Fire Starter

Posted on January 18, 2016February 24, 2024 by David Johns

With temperatures currently plummeting in the UK and at least a fortnight’s cold snap predicted with sub zero temperatures coming, it’s time to have a look at the main source of heating on my narrowboat, the Villager Puffin stove.

Vlog 17: Watering Hole

Posted on January 8, 2016February 24, 2024 by David Johns

For viewers who do not own a canal boat but are curious about life on board, this Vlog shows one of the most frequent domestic tasks undertaken by liveaboards. No, not the toilet emptying. The other task.

Vlog 16: Crick Thinking

Posted on January 1, 2016February 24, 2024 by David Johns

A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine, a former colleague from my life in TV, came to visit and experience narrowboat life so we went for a cruise. We didn’t get far – to the pub, in fact. But we went by boat so that’s OK. This is the video of that trip.

Vlog 15: Solar Flair

Posted on December 20, 2015May 7, 2024 by David Johns

Once the Spring arrives and I go out continuous cruising on the canals, I will need a way to generate electricity. Ideally this would be done without running the engine. Hence the installation of solar panels. This is the video of that installation.

Vlog 14: Lock Bottom

Posted on December 9, 2015February 24, 2024 by David Johns

Come journey with me down into the depths of an English canal, to a lock at Banbury in Oxfordshire that was emptied for maintenance by the Canal and River Trust. Find out how the locks are maintained and what unusual things have been found at the bottom!

Vlog 13: The Lights Fantastic

Posted on November 30, 2015May 7, 2024 by David Johns

It’s rainy, cold and blowing a gale outside so I made a quick video about five simple things – three of them lightbulbs – that make my life nicer on board my canal boat!

Vlog 12: Bring Out The Braunston

Posted on November 20, 2015February 24, 2024 by David Johns

I was supposed to be taking the narrowboat to a winter mooring in Warwickshire but for reasons I explain in this video, I didn’t. Instead of cancelling the trip though – as I had invited a friend along to show me how to do canalboating properly – we went for a two-day cruise to Braunston. This is the video of that trip.