Vlog 305: Left Turn, Clyde
This is Part 2 of the cruise I was invited on by the St Pancras Cruising Club. We went out onto the River Thames and east towards and through the Thames Flood Barrier, in a convoy of 16 narrowboats.
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Vlog 303: A shark? In a London canal?
The Regent’s Canal runs through much of the middle of London and is a surprisingly peaceful oasis of calm amongst the hustle and bustle of the city. And yes, there is a shark! I joined the St Pancras Cruising Club who’d arrange for a huge convoy of boats to travel along the canal, assembling at Limehouse Basin by the end of the day.
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Vlog 302: They Think It’s All Over
Welcome to the edge-of-your-seat finale of the marathon BCN Challenge 2023, where narrowboaters compete to see who can cover most of the Birmingham Canal Network in 24 hours.
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Vlog 301: Challenge Accepted!
Every year, the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society hosts the 24-hour BCN Challenge with the aim to cover as much of the 100-mile BCN as possible. This is my account of being a passenger on the 2023 Challenge.
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Vlog 300: The Full Monty
The Montgomery canal which runs from Shropshire into north Wales is absolutely beautiful but only parts of it are in water and useable by boats. Efforts are underway to connect the whole length and this video covers the latest developments.
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Vlog 299: Riveting Stuff
In order to film the boats featured in my last video, we took them out for a cruise. It was raining. Here is the footage from that gentle trip along the canal.
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Vlog 297: A Wynn, Wynn Situation
If you’re a fan of boating on YouTube you surely must know Nikki and Jason Wynn, ex-RVers turned global sailors. Now having a brand new boat built, they decided to take a little time out to visit Britain and have a go at narrowboating. So I sorted them a 10-day trip on the Llangollen Canal.
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Vlog 296: I Like To Move It, Move It
I spend a day with Connor Warner, a professional boat mover who takes customers’ narrowboats, cruisers, Dutch barges … you name it …. around the rivers and canals of Britain.
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Vlog 295: Garbage in, garbage out
Every year, the IWA in Milton Keynes organises a massive clean-up of the local stretch of the Grand Union canal, which a team of eager volunteers undertake. The garbage they pull from the waters is quite staggering, as this video shows.
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Vlog 292: Q & A
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.
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