Category: Video

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Vlog 280: The Blue Bird of Happiness

Posted on October 13, 2022February 24, 2024 by David Johns

A few weeks ago I went past the well-known historic narrowboat “Dover” on the Grand Union Canal but its looks belie its actual interior so I went back for a proper snoop around.

Vlog 279: Honey, I Shrunk the Narrowboat!

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

Regular viewers will know I have long had an interest in – some might say an obsession about – very short narrowboats on the British canals. The time had come for me to go and have a look around a couple and see if they are for me.

Vlog 278: Ferry Impressive

Posted on September 16, 2022February 24, 2024 by David Johns

I went to visit a unique ferry boat in south Wales. This is the story of that trip.

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.

Vlog 274: Ethel the Unready

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

A long-standing viewer of this channel was kind enough to offer me a day trip on her boat as she came along the Grand Union canal from Gayton to Weedon, so of course I jumped at the chance.

Vlog 273: Mast from the Past

Posted on July 26, 2022February 24, 2024 by David Johns

Rescuing hundreds of thousands of stranded Allied troops in World War 2, the Little Ships of Dunkirk are little miracles. Several of these historic vessels were on display at the Thames Traditional Boat Festival at Henley-on-Thames. I went along to have a look at all the spectacle and to hitch a ride on Little Ship “Aquabelle”.

Vlog 272: Going Underground

Posted on July 17, 2022February 24, 2024 by David Johns

Opened originally in 1811, the Standedge (pronounced “Stannedge”, apparently) canal tunnel is a legendary boating experience at 5km (3.5m) long and hundreds of feet underground. I was lucky enough to join narrowboaters on a Pennine Cruise organised by the Huddersfield Canal Society as they went through this amazing tunnel.