If a bloke does a vlog entirely dedicated to showing himself on a canal boat, you should expect to hear that bloke chuntering on about his trip on his boat. Funny that isn't it. Carry on countering, some of us, clearly, enjoy it.
Not at all inane but maybe too proper and informative for some - not me. Must admit the "bloke" is very sporting not to revile back. That's not the Narrowboat Way.
Baby spiders migrate by climbing out on a high branch and letting out a meter or so of silk. The wind catches the strand and wafts the spider-lings into the faces of passing boaters. Completing Nature's circle of Annoyance...
Thanks for all the good laughs David. I really appreciated your wide range of comedic styles today. Loved it. I will continue to Klingon to every humorous word. ;-)
David, wow cranking on at 6 knot, you speed demon. Your boat being pushed to the opposite side is caused by the hydraulic pressure your boat created the when moving into the lock with a very shallow draft. The Huston ship channel the is famous for this problem. The ships running close to the channel edge will progressively have to the add more and more rudder to hold a course. Eventually the ship will make a turn in the opposite direction of the rudder angle due to the pressure between the hull and the side of the channel. Try holding more to the center the until you reduced the most of your speed, then move to the side you want to tie up to. Also, look a propeller effect, the direction your propeller turns changes the way your boat maneuvers learning about it will help you quite a bit in your boat handling skills. Really enjoying this trip.
Great video....I played it for a patient I am caring for in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit who, by chance is from Worcester. He is currently on a ventilator but, gave his wife and myself many squeezes of his hands as he watched. It seemed to delight and comfort him. Never under estimate the power of your work..
Blimey. I'm a bit taken aback. It's a lovely thing to know though. Thank you - and well done for your work; trauma, I am quite sure, doesn't just apply to the patients there; must be quite a stressful role.
Someone complained about your commentary keep up the good work my friend my vision is not the greatest your voice is soothing and fills in the theater of the Mind
Once again you have shown yourself to be a better man than I when you blurred out the faces of the stone-throwers. Glad to hear that there was no major damage done to you or the boat. Many thanks for another enjoyable video, safe journey and best wishes.
True that, I watch lots of things on RU-vid from vlogs like yours, to lets-plays by gamer's. They all have dislikes. You got to feel sorry for someone who is so small minded that they go around hating on other peoples content. Particularly when it is something like yours where there is very little, to practically nothing that you could dislike.
Too funny. As I was watching this video I was thinking it's not just the camera-work, but your narration skills making it special and entertaining. And then the first comment I see is someone who dislikes your commentary.
Hello, David. I can't believe those awful boys threw rocks at you. Shame on them. Lovely vlog, as usual. I think your commentary is perfect and makes me smile every single time.
You are doing a disservice to all canal boaters. I live here in Panama City Fl. It is beautiful here....but your vlogs are showing us here that you have it better. We are all packing up and moving to the canals. You will soon have a bunch of yanks clogging your canals very soon. With our rock music, socks with sandals and fat bellys.
The spider activity could have been Money Spiders 'ballooning' - they fire up some string into the air and fly at the mercy of wind and electric currents. They have been known to travel hundreds of miles in this fashion.
I started boating on the cut at Kinver in the 70's and I've done all these trips on the Severn and Avon over thirty odd years afloat, including the Bristol Channel where I've been shiprecked twice. Moved to France when I retired but back now and I've bought another boat which I'm renovating and can't wait to get back on the water in my own 70's. Love your vids, you've inspired me. Your wit is nearly as good as mine so keep it up.
Theory about the Lock Drift: You are creating your own turbulence when you come into the lock. You are pushing water in a confined area, So it's going to push back on what ever side you are on..
Small and baby spiders can take to the air by letting out a line of silk. The wind catches the silk and it lifts the spider into the air to travel any where the wind brings them. You might have been going through an area where baby spiders got big enough to travel by air and disperse themselves away from their birth place and happened to crash land into you. LOL
Publically shunned by Holsteins, ensnarled in webs of tiny spiders and stoned by miscreant scamps, it was still a pretty good day on the river. I was waiting on your continuation up through the Tardebigge challenge, but, as you reversed and found the Avon, now I shall wait for the lesser Wilmcote group.
3.5K likes vs. 16 dislikes, 55 K subscribed, although i was terrible in math growing up I'd say this means....David, you're guilty of being entertaining, educational and informative!
i just love traveling a river via virtual reality and CruisingTheCut vlog watching swans watching us glimpsing historical buildings and remember it is very british to complain it's how we know you are true blue cheers
There is a lovely fish and chip shop in Tewksbury. I was there yesterday, sat in the picnic area with the lid off the car and watched to World go by, fortified with fish, chips and curry sauce. Yum.
I believe the vibration you felt from the prop crossing wakes on the river is called cavitation. Higher speed motor boats use "cupped" edges on the props to cure this. The pressure waves of the wake at your stern and the high entry point of a narrow boat"s prop above the hull bottom are the factors leading to cavitation.
The word 'Avon' was the Saxon word for river. That's why we have so many rivers called Avon. The Roman map makers would point at the water and ask the local man: "What's that called?" because of course he wanted the name of the river for his map. But instead he got the answer "It's the River".
Six miles an hour, I hope you did not get dizzy with that speed. :) A great trip it seems, especially when one can stop at nearly any time. The narrative, camera work and postprodiction was superb, as always.
I wonder...I wonder how sorry one must be to blame others for your own " lot in life" so vehemently as to float around RU-vid nonchalantly giving thumbs down to videos. So sad...so very very sad...GREAT VIDEO I must say...
Lovely video. I wondered if the disaffected youth would turn up on one of these videos. We have a catapult and a years supply of marbles in the cockpit, only for persuading crocodiles to leave our vicinity, but it could be put to other uses. Of course you do have a shortage of crocs over there.
Thank you as always for another great Vlog. I'm so sorry you get negative comments. I love your commentary and appreciate the time you take to share such a great experience with us.
Love your vids! I think you lower my blood pressure by 10 points every time I watch. BTW.... looked to see if someone else mentioned it, but didn't see anything. Your small spiders are probably spider young leaving the nest. They climb up trees and let out a long thin line of silk and then let the wind blow the silk and them where they may go. It's how they propogate, called ballooning I guess they hope they don't land in the river but or get stuck on a guy on a narrowboat just passing by.
I don't know if your'e scripting all this ahead but I just love the language, the little British puns, even though I'm sure some get lost in translation :)
Another great Vlog, love viewing the old English homes and countryside, I think you made a super great decision when you bought your narrow boat, Cheers from the US of A, keep up the great work, enjoy your channel
Ha ha, so strange to read the "no sound" comment. Being a stranger to your language and delighted to have YT to watch and listen to people all over the world 🌍 I just wanted to let you know how much I like you humorous talks. I miss drone footage but read you comments about that so that’s it. Will not miss a single video of yours. 👍🤗🇩🇰
I love your sense of humor. Love your videos too. I'm in dead brown central California and it's nice to see rain and greenery. Not for myself of course, I've seen rain; but for my 25 year old daughter.
Great Video David, i had to laugh at the spider webs though, think of this it this was, at least you got your daily cardio in running into all those webs. Have a safe fun day.
I got a huge chuckle when you used the "Swan-nie River" reference. It's nice that you paid homage to a historic river in my home state of Florida, USA. I would have to say, probably many Americans wouldn't have gotten that reference. Also, the Severn Swans a swimming had me laughing... I really love your narratives in your vlogs.
I'm impressed that you did an oil change while the lock keeper was at lunch but I don't know how long an oil change takes. I would be keen to see you do that and I think I may have asked before but I recall you said you done that for your patreons. I could be wrong so I'll take a look at your videos again! Thanks for another really interesting video. Those rivers look really scary to me!
Another lovely vlog . I've finally found a boat of my own. so as long as all goes well with the survey, that's in a couple of weeks, I'll hopefully be cruising myself by Christmas 😁
Well that's me now caught up on all the video's. Thanks for taking us on this journey with you. I keep hinting at the wife that we should do this..... she is not convinced at all... Looking forward to the next VLOG.
What a great vlog again, I really love the river cruises where there's (almost) always plenty of space to pass or meet ather boats without have to distroy your paintwork because of overhanging branches etc. I wonder why people dislike these vlogs, or would they have tried to click the thumps up button, but missed it due to bad eye sight ?
Lock poltergeist's... I have been through locks on the Mississippi river. When entering, your boat is displacing water. When you enter, the water moves sideways. Since you are closer to one side, the displaced water pushes off that side, and moves you the wrong direction. My apologies if this has already been mentioned. I very much appreciate the Vlog's. Thank you. Cheers.
Another [as usual] lovely vlog. We moored at Upton-upon-Severn and also used the services at the marina opposite. We took on water and used their elsan free of charge [both]. They just ask that you observe their time limit on the visitor moorings adjacent to the water point.
Hello David. That was certainly a "Punderful" day.lol. Severn Swans a Swimming and cows saying bottoms up! Steep toll on the Avon and nightly mooring fees too. Does it come with a play by old William himself? It should.
You always make me laugh and smile while watching your videos! Nice camera work; you captured some lovely views of the countryside -- not counting cow bottoms! 🐄
enjoying living vicariously through you vlog. I am way past the age to be messing with all those locks. I do live in the Puget Sound area and have been out on boats many times. I worked as a shipyard rigger at one time and my father was a first mate on Mississippi tug boats. Most of my adventures were on motorcycles and I rode in all the lower 48 states and got Alaska during a trip to the Arctic Circle. I do enjoy a story told well and you seem to be good at it. Thanks for sharing.
I've taken to opening Google Maps and following your travels in the satellite mode. It makes it so enjoyable knowing and seeing what is beyond your camera's view.
I think i recognise the guy at the 1st guy that threw the stones at you, the first guy pretty much always wears the same clothes and i go to the same school, if its any consultation and some closure, he was jumped and knocked out in a fight recently, so revenge for your boat.
It appears you must deal with young Morons in your adventures from time to time and as well online. I must say you handled all of it as professional as possible. Good Show!!!!
Curious fun possible fact for you, I believe the words Nene, Aire, and Ouse (as in the River Ouse, or Great Ouse), and a few other river names also originate from old latin words for river. I may have been told this by a slightly inebriated man in a pub, but if it stands true, it does amusingly mean that a large portion of the UKs river network is actually called, quite simply, the "river river".
Greatly enjoy your vlogs, as a Northern California shut in, I have always had an (un) heathy fascination with British canals. A few questions: could you show more regarding the techniques of tying up, difficulties of banking, receiving mail, paying bills (only seen approximately half of the vlogs, so if covered my apology) etc. wish your coal "briquettes" were available here in California - would have made my life easier in some of my wilderness cabins. Again thank you.
Hi. I won't do a vlog about bills etc because it's not a visual topic. It is addressed in my written FAQ page on the website though. My rope work is appalling so I won't show that ;-)
Hi David, brilliant vlog as always..Looks quite peaceful along the river..You do look cold!! good picture moment! the cow's back view!!Look forward to next vid..s
Great one! You always manage to make me laugh out loud.....even though your humor is quite subtle. Glad you are making these vlogs and having such a wonderful life there on the canals and rivers. I spent a good deal of time on rivers this summer, but in a kayak, and sadly, have to get off the water at the end of the day. Keep it up! You inspire us all to enjoy the nature around us, and to explore!