Bonus video: Slow TV canal cruise
This is the unedited ‘bow camera’ view of my recent trip on a narrowboat on the Gloucester & Sharpness canal, without voiceover and with just natural sound.
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Vlog 353: Jolly Rhubarb
I was delighted to join one of my Patreon supporters, Ian Davis, on his lovely narrowboat and we went for a short trip on the Gloucester & Sharpness canal, creating this “old style” (!) Cruising the Cut vlog which I hope you like.
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Vlog 352: Asking Price
I asked a well-known narrowboat broker what used boats fetch these days, who’s buying and what the trends in the market are. Hopefully useful info if you’re thinking of buying or selling a canal boat in 2025!
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Vlog 351: Resins to be Cheerful
This is part 4 of my complete transom rebuild. In this thrilling episode, I place reinforcing glass fibre into the inner skin of the transom using vinylester resin. And I get buzzed by a hornet (maybe).
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Vlog 350: Glue Monday
Having removed all the rotten transom wood (see the prior videos in my ‘Twiggy transom’ playlist, link below), I now needed to patch a couple of holes on the inner fibreglass skin. This video documents that process.
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Vlog 349: A Soggy Bottom
Ignoring, for the moment, the vast gashes I have carved into the back of the boat which will need fixing later, in this episode I tear into the transom and start removing the – extremely soggy – wooden core.
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Vlog 348: All aboard the Skylark!
Although traditional steel narrowboats cost many thousands of pounds, even second-hand, there is a cheaper and easier way to get a foot on the water and that’s with a fibreglass cabin cruiser. In this video, I visit a woman who’s chosen exactly that as her first boat.
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Vlog 347: Fjord Fiesta
After enjoying my first cruise last December, I decided to go on another this year and the place that was on my ‘must go’ list was Norway. So I booked a week with P&O and this video is my review of the trip.
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Vlog 346: Cutting Corners
As described in the prior videos about the refurbishment of Twiggy, my 48-year-old fibreglass cabin cruiser, I needed to cut the back off the boat in order to replace the rotten wood in the transom. Unfortunately, things didn’t go entirely to plan.
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Vlog 345: Gifts of the Gabs
About three months ago I visited Gabs Heneghan who’d bought a widebeam boat and was about to refurbish it. Mid-way through the process, I’ve been back to see how she’s getting on.
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