182. Sounds from the canal as I take the narrowboat north towards Fradley Junction 

The best and most sensible RU-vid channel on the planet.

I live in the States, have no boating experience, no desire to live on a boat. And no canals nearby, but for some reason I keep watching your videos. Best wishes mate

Thank you again for your adventures my home is 12 miles west of Detroit Michigan I am an over-the-road truck driver and I look forward everyday to your adventures I am stuck in the cab of a truck or I am sleeping with your videos I live vicariously through your videos thank you for sharing and showing me the countryside that I relatively see from the cab of a truck interstates versus canal I choose the canal thanks again my brother and thank you for letting me share in your life on the canal

My blood pressure drops down to where it should be when watching any of your vlogs - thank you.

Well steered, Captain. Well steered.

On a day such as this, stuck at home trying to pass a kidney stone. This was just the peaceful setting I needed to get my mind off the annoying pain. Thank you!

That vintage engine was like music.

Having watched many Cruising the Cut episodes I am very impressed with the flat-calmness of the canals. My history in the ocean is high winds, waves, tides and....high winds. The calmness of the canals makes me want to come to England and spend time Cruising the Cut. As always, well done David J.

It is confirmed by experience that bored people are boring people. Disregard Davenport. Like so many others, I highly appreciate these honest, intelligent vlogs.

Your journeys on the canals are very interesting and relaxing, thanks for taking the time and effort to do them.

👍🏻for Marilion and your round-the-bend face 😄

Your videos just make me happy to be alive. I love this stuff, and look forward to all of your posts. Thank you.

This entire video was remarkably entertaining. Your humour and presentation is so quintessentially British I am (almost) ready to forswear coffee in favor of tea. Well done and keep them coming, mate.

I love it when there is a new video to watch. Thanks David.

To watch you narrowboating relaxes me everytime

Finding your RU-vid channel this year was one of the best results of intrusive algorithms ever. This New Yorker always appreciates your fabulous sense of humor, but I had to let you know how happy it made me to hear you casually use the word "schlep" in this video. 😀 I am just rewatching all of these, and enjoying the latest ones as they emerge. Keep being your wonderful self, and thank you!

Thank you for looking at the camera when you speak! So many of the YT channels I frequent the person watches them self in the monitor instead of speaking to the lens. It's so awkward to watch! I also appreciate that you don't take it too serious and can make jokes about canal cruising, such as the log and the busy bridge that had three cars. Thanks for sharing your adventures!

I love the chugging of those vintage engines. Such character!

I love the subject matter, the information and the way you talk to your audience. I look forward to your vlog and have been watching a long time. Thank you for continued posts, very enjoyable.

Greetings from Canada! A small, BUT ticklish point, IF I may. The worldwide infamous black & white, large feathered avian guano machine, commonly but wrongly called "Canadian" is truly the "Canada" goose. NOT If I Recall Correctly, because of its place of origin, since it seems to foul (and fowl) most Northern Hemisphere nations, BUT because the unfortunate ornithologist who proffered the latin Crapus Maximus Canadeses was near here... FYI... And CHEERS from here!

what a gem of a channel, glad I found this. Makes you proud to be British!

Ha! Marillion reference--love it!

I think you meant to say “To give you an idea of how fast narrowboats aren’t, here is a jogger.”

3:14 truly exceptional gurgles I really appreciate that

Appreciated you showing those awkward maneuvers, I sometimes have problems reversing and thought it was just me. Quite a few boat tubers edit them out, which means to me they have made a pigs ear of it. Regards, Paul.

Ah, another relaxing video. Wish I was there. Its another Hot sunny day in Cheyenne Wyoming.

Thank you so much for making these videos. I know it takes a lot of extra time and effort and creativity but we here in America who have no access to such loveliness as your national Canal system really appreciate all your efforts. Hats off and if I were there I’d hand you a GnT at the end of that lovely little tootle.

The rearward steering effect "Propeller walk" or "asymmetric transverse thrust" or any of a dozen other names (well at least one or two) The wash of a propeller in reverse disproportionately hits one side of the vessel. Turns out boats are either left handed or right handed, depending on the rotation of the prop.

Enjoyed the emphasis on sound. Must say that you’ve really progressed as a helmsman since the early days. Rather surprised at how not crowded it is given the season.....Chris 🇨🇦

"The panic seeps through bloodstained floors as Grendel stalks the night" Cheers from Brazil, mate. I've lived in Swindon for 2 years. I missed England soooooo much and your videos make me feel so nostalgic. You have a fan here in South America. Even more now that you've mentioned Marillion. Thanks, mate.

Lovely vlog - every time I see one of these I am reminded why its my and my wife's goal to get a boat and not a caravan. And, who on earth gave this a thumbs down??

I love your video presentations. I have enjoyed a decade of UK narrow boating, via hiring, never through ownership. We view mostly on our smart tele, family viewing, but loaded onto my tablet to send you this greeting. Best wishes & stay safe.

Props for the Marillion reference. Time to dig out the records!

Yet another Epic wild life extravaganza. In previous episodes we've had birds a plenty, even those visious Canadian geese, squirrels running wild on the tow path, horses mooching. But by far the greatest @ 2.52 for some reason David you see a log, whereas I see crocodile basking in the sun 🐦🦆🐿🐎☀️🐊 Next week from the river Nile..................

As someone who failed his driving test 3 times due to the dreaded reverse round the corner manoeuvre ........ that backing into the marina move looked terrifying. Well done . The ducks did offer their assistance though.

On my exercise bike watching. Thought I was pedalling the cut! Thanks David!

I weird sitting watching this 29/06/22 and know that just half a year later from this lovely video the world went heck in a hand basket!

Another beautiful trip! i absolutely see why you moved to the canal system...green with envy here! thanks for sharing.

A most enjoyable breakfast treat, a vlog from a favorite Narrow Boater. Great helmsmanship, facial expressions, scenery, & narration. Well done.

Thanks David for another very entertaining episode.😃👍👏👏👏

You taught me a new phrase "Jioe de vivre" = Enjoyment of Life. The flower groupings in the video were rather pretty. Nice colors in them. My mother's whole side of the family are French Canadian. My mother could talk, read and write in French, but she never taught my sister and I any French, just some children's songs. Sometimes when my mother got annoyed of frustrated with us, she'd say something in French and that's when we knew we better knock it off! It wasn't swearing, just things you say when fed up with something. I can't spell them in French but I can say them. I'll try to spell them phonetically. One of them was Tah mehnuut! = "Wait a minute!". One was loosely translated into "Good Grief!" Mah Fwah! The last was when she wanted you to go away quickly... Ahlay voo zuh, veet veet! (veet veet means hurry hurry).

Yellow shirt jogger is just showing off her life is really busy you are cruising at 2 and 1/2 miles per hour sweet

Glad I found this episode. As a small child I lived in Amington and our garden backed onto the Coventry Canal. It's 7 gardens before the Gate Inn you feature at 13:11. There are now houses on both sides of the canal there but in those days on the opposite bank to the pub was fields that we used to play in. Spent many a day riding our bikes, walking along or even paddling along the cut in canoes and dingy's (can you imagine 6 year old's being allowed to do that unsupervised now?). In the summer holidays we'd sometimes do some 'barge hopping'. We'd jump on at the bridge next to the Gate Inn in return for helping out the owner / operator at the Glascote locks and then help someone coming the other way in return for a lift back. I'm sure we were more of a hindrance than a help though! One summer, possibly '76 or '77, the was a small flotilla of scaled down replica's of military navy craft that came through. Can't remember the exact make up but think there was a destroyer, frigate, sub and possibly a carrier amongst them - 5 or 6 in total as I recall. Happy days!

love the cruise and scenery as all ways

The turning of a boat when reversing is called srew-effect. Every boat with a single screw has it. A propellor wants to turn a boat every so slightly to starboard or portside, you wont notice it while going forward because you compensate it with your rudder. When going backwards however the rudder is not working properly anymore (the thrust of the propellor wash generates the thrust on the rudder, and going backwards you loose that proppelor thrust) and then you will notice that effect. Basically you got righthanded screws (vessel wants to turn to the right in reverse) and lefthanded screws (vessel wants to turn to the left when reversing). This effect can be used to your advantage for turning while reversing, seen old experienced captains using this effect on old coasters without bowthrusters.

Having watched (bingewise) so many of your videos, I must thank you! I would never have a chance to experience this lovely journey through English waterways without the opportunity you have offered. Big fan! Watching from Washington state in the USA.

Top notch video sir! Your commentary definitely is appreciated!

I love the calming way you present these episodes, (unlike myself presenting mine), which may all change when you finally do get to the Ribble Estuary, then cross and enter the Lancaster canal , I guarantee they’re will be a certain wobble in your calm voice , and dare I say a new expression on your face that we can all enjoy....... Great Episode’s as always dear boy 🙋‍♂️🍻

Your adventures are Tom Sawyer n ol' Huck Finn approved! Some great author will no doubt write of your exploits. Well done, sir, I always enjoy your posts.

David, you mentioned the overgrown offside vegetation growing out into the canal. I am one of a group of IWA volunteers working with the Canal and River Trust and this winter we shall be cutting back the encroaching vegetation starting at Fradley Junction and working our way south, We will definitely reach Fazeley but hopefully also that section you highlighted in your video, however progress is quite slow and we are constrained by only being able to do it between October and March because of the nesting wildlife.

What a great way to live your life ,,,slowly cruising up and down the canals and waterways at your leisure 😌

Really lovely countryside.....❤️

Loved the audio recordings they give extra sparkle to your excellent video :-)

Among absurd associations, hearing you introduce the various sounds had me thinking about Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, where the (usually extremely British) narrator introduces the various instruments depicting the animals 😁 Anyways, cheers and happy holidays; hope you're treating yourself to some extra generous cheese sandwiches

Love the speeded up duck waddles. Great maneuvering. Id hate to see my face doing any such thing. All around great video again. Thanks!

Gurgling and burbling are the best sounds. 😂

Very pleasant journey.

The new stereo microphone is working a treat! Wonderful!

While I am watching this episode and it’s September on the video, it’s winter and February 2020 in my world, a peaceful Sunday morning and that dreaded American bilge swill we call coffee is ready and I have just mixed up a batch of scones and pooped them into the oven to bake. Your videos make great watching while I do things like that, knit, hand sew, smock and in general enjoy time off work. I am so very glad I found them.

11:00 this whole explanation gave me flashbacks to when I was first learning to drive and figuring out steering. Some of the tight squeezes you go through are almost stressful to watch :P

he has developed some skill moving a boat

So soothing for a turbulent time in the world. Bless you for bringing England to me, here in Vermont.

We watch all ur vlogs over the last year. So last month we flew from Abu Dhabi for a month and got ourselves a boat from napton narrowboats. Had a great week on the oxford.... Yes there were 'welcome to the vlog' impersonations during the trip. Thanks for the videos they meant we knew almost what to when we got cruising. Oh and the decision has been made to get a boat as soon as we can escape the sand.

I live in Polesworth and frequently walk the Atherstone - Polesworth stretch. I’m sure you’ll agree it’s a beautiful stretch of canal. If you look in the distance from the place you recorded the ‘gurgling’ sound, you can see the wonderful Merevale Hall. I feel disappointed not to have met you on my walks whilst out that weekend! Love your vids

These videos show that it's a great help if you are able to read other peoples minds whilst cruising on the canals. It's also a bonus if you can do it whilst driving on our roads.

Hello, nice video, I like your description of things, and your humor, your clear speech helps me a little in the understanding of English, I do language immersion at 60 years old lol

Your backing up face looked a lot like my driving forward in long island New York face.

Don't know if you know this but the reason your boat has a tendency to steer to the right when reversing is because of propellor walk. You have a left-handed prop, so that's why it is pulling to the right when reversing. In forward gear the prop turns anti-clockwise and will pull the stern to the left, in reverse the prop turns the other way and the stern will pull to the right. You have to imagine the propellor as a wheel rolling along a road. So in reverse, with the prop going clockwise, it will try to roll to the right hand side and will push the boat that way. The effect is much greater in reverse than when going forward. You can make good use of this effect when turning the boat around, or when mooring up starboard to quay. Don't know if the explanation was clear enough, and wether you already knew this, if you didn't now you do!

I do so enjoy your vlogs. This one was not an exception.

Man I love your vids, and I don’t even have a boat!!!

Nice gentle cruise David...glad you enjoyed your weekend away.....thanks for sharing

Lovely as usual. As you came out the marina I found myself leaning and gritting my teeth waiting for concrete crunch...all for naught! Nice piloting!

I find your video's hugely entertaining while at the same time extraordinarily relaxing to watch. The easy and relaxing pace of your video's is like a breath of fresh air. We have nothing like that in Australia. It makes me want to jump on a plane and live on a narrow boat over there for a year or two exploring the wonderful canals. Well done and thank you. Keep it up.

Lovely video David.

The reason that there was a long queue of boats waiting to ascend Glascote locks was probably because that pair of locks used to be, perhaps still are, the slowest single lock on the system to fill. Did you notice the beautiful blue brick skew bridge coming into Amington? I always admired the workmanship of such a large bridge on such a large skew.

Love the videos. I find it humorous how passing boats are almost oblivious to you. I would expect some sorta greeting. A hand wave or head bob maybe.

This is called propeller walk, essentially the water stream hits your hull and since the propeller puts a spin to that motion, a larger part hits one side of the hull, deflecting and causing a motion that is called propeller walk. Since the force is dependent on the rotational speed it is a constant at the same rpa and can be learnt to adjust for.

It was great to meet you today at Whilton Marina 😊

You boys drive your cars on the left but your canal boats on the right (which is the side to drige/navigate from)...it truly is a world of wonder

Loving the 'going backwards face' :)

i just realized, The ducks and geese follow the boats as the stir up the bottom of the canal sending bits floating up. cool.

David, here's a little American humor. What are the 3 best days in a boat owner's life? The day he buys his boat, the day he sells his boat, and the day his best friend buys a boat.

Very smart steersmanship at the marina. That can’t be easy to maneuver in reverse.

I am waiting for Dave to post his cruise calendar so we can all go and have a legendary cheese sandwich, try emptying the toilet cassette and fill up the water tank. Maybe waiting for Godot might be easier. I will try counting - 1, 2, 3, 4. 5, 6 - better take the other sock off. :)

Enjoyed this video bro. All the best from a wet windy NZ

loving the Rosie and Jim t-shirt.

Throw the Ducks a line and they can help you back up LOL

Very nice, indeed. Thank you for sharing.

Love the "Gurgling" sounds ...

That one boat had a bow thruster I imagine that would be a game changer for a narrow boat.

Lovely as usual....

Love the tranquil pace of the cruising and the sounds of the canals. No wonder you find it so idyllic.

Just before bed in South Australia, watching your post is a sure chance of a good night's sleep. Thank you David.

looking at those gardens I wouldn't like to be on a ride on mower stuck in forward and going in to the drink lol

love the sound of those old engines.

3:05 Careful, might be a crocodile! :-)

Excellent video as always! Some nifty rudder work there!

Yay, beautiful Shire Horses ! 😉😁 Thanks David💜

I know you can't do smell, but thank you for the added sound bites. Remember we are stuck where we are and enjoy being along with your journeys. Thanks again.

So nice to explain your UK "expressions" for us international viewers, in France they Call it: control technique. 🤗🇫🇷