Category: Video

Posts including videos

Vlog 294: Ship’s Getting Real

Posted on April 15, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

A return visit to ML1392 Sarinda on the Wirral to see how Simon and Gemma are getting on with their painstaking restoration of this historic ship.

Bonus video: Slow TV cruise

Posted on April 10, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

This is not a vlog, there’s no talking or music (deliberately) – it is a “slow TV” uninterrupted recording from the bow camera of the electric day-hire boat seen in video 293 doing the return journey from Tamhorn Farm Bridge to Kings Orchard Marina on the Coventry canal near Lichfield.

Vlog 293: Amped Up

Posted on April 4, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

An all-electric narrowboat is now available for hire by the day so it’s a low-cost way to test the waters of near-silent narrowboating and leave no air pollution in your wake.

Vlog 292: Q & A

Posted on March 26, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

This is a much-requested fireside chat video where I sit and chat for nearly half an hour, answering questions posed to me by viewers.

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 291A: The Rum Wench

Posted on March 5, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

I spent a day aboard The Pirate Boat with Captain Heidi; this is part 1 of two videos where we tour her boat and chat about her life afloat.

Vlog 290: On my ¡Hola!-days

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

I’m just back from a week’s holiday in Palma in Majorca where I thought I’d do a rare ‘real vlog’ where I wander about as a tourist, pointing the camcorder at the boats.

‘Live’ broadcast at Boat Life Live

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

A replay of my live broadcast from “Boat Life Live” at the NEC.

Vlog 289: Gunwales & Roses

Posted on February 6, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

Paintings of roses and castles are about as traditional on the canals of Britain as it’s possible to be – but why? Why roses? And castles? And how do you paint them? I went to see a artist and historian Kay Andrews on her boat as as well as Penny Arscott, Manager of Foxton Locks Museum to find out.

Vlog 288: Supermodel

Posted on January 27, 2023February 24, 2024 by David Johns

Here is an actual – albeit scale model – railway line and even a canal within the hold of a narrowboat on the canal.