A Tour Of Our Narrowboat | Quest Vlog #13 

Aw, that’s so sweet!

She’s a very talented Nanna! 😊

Thanks! Nanna’s quilt is pretty amazing! 😁

It is amazing, we love it! 😊

Thanks! We love the bedroom, it’s very cozy. Pixel doesn’t think it’s fair that we don’t let her on the bed though 🤣

Thank you, Nanna is amazing! Pixel is getting much better, we think she is mostly just testing the boundaries of what she can get away with! x

Thanks 😁

Hi! 👋 Thanks for your kind comments, glad you’re enjoying them!

Definitely!

You’re welcome! 😊

Thanks!

She is naughty, but also very adorable so it’s difficult to stay mad at her! 😂 🐶 xx

Thanks!

Ah, nice to know! Thanks

Thank you very much!

Thanks, she is very talented! 😊

Thanks Emma, she still needs some work though! 😊❤️❤️

Thanks Patricia, good luck with the quilt! x

Thanks! 😊

Cooking on a narrowboat is more or less the same as cooking in a house!

Isn’t it! Nanna is very talented 😊

Yep, we’ve always liked the reverse layout 😊

Thanks! 😊

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I’m lucky to have a very talented Nanna! 🥰

Yes, he has and he also agrees with everything you’ve said! Induction hobs are very nice to cook with 😊

Hahaha, we wish we were rich and famous! Well, maybe just the rich part... 🤣 Thanks for joining us! Completely agree with your sentiments about Emma (Narrowboat Girl), she seems like a lovely person, we love watching her vlogs! x

Yes, there are a few radiators in the boat, central heating, but we don’t use them (mainly because the heating mechanism is broken right now!). Our toilet is a cassette style, so no holding tank for that. Well, I suppose the cassettes are kind of holding tanks! Our engine is a pretty quiet one and doesn’t bother us if we have it running while we are inside. Thanks for the tip about the fridge, we will look into it 😊

Hahaha, agreed!

Haven’t gotten the painting done yet unfortunately. 🙁 Working on it!

Thanks! 😊

Definitely, but the release is still so far away!! 😩

Thanks, it continues to grow... 😒😂

Hi Sherri, we picked up a test pot of paint called Dairy Belle. We got the bathroom and kitchen version of the paint as we figured it would be more resistant to the potentially damp conditions, however we want a paint that is glossy rather than matte finish as we think it will reflect more light and help brighten the boat a lot more.

Thanks! We’ve managed to get a lot in, but some storage solutions wouldn’t go astray. No idea why a lot of vloggers lisp, we’ve never noticed it.

Ok Alejandra, I’ll fall for it, why is it that so many vloggers lisp ?

Steve, that’s a good point, we didn’t think about that... hmm, back to the drawing board! 🤔

Ahoy Chugabug crew! Yes, that’s us 😊 Pleased you guys are finally on the water now x

Thanks! 😊

She really is!

Thanks! 😁

Hi Martin, very exciting to hear you’ve put down a deposit! You probably could get a 4ft 6 inch bed in with enough of a gap left to get past. The original bed on ours was 4ft wide and had decent room to walk past, so an extra 6 inches would make the gap smaller and you might have to walk past while doing a side-shuffle! I suppose it would depend on how often you wanted to walk past it and whether you wanted more sleeping room or more walking room! 😊

Thanks, I’m quite good at the sideways shuffle or at least I’ll be getting plenty of practice

I'm in the US and have never actually seen a narrowboat in the wild, nevermind being aboard one. But I'm very interested in narrowboats and have seen a lot of RU-vid videos. Enjoyed yours very much! I'm curious. Why a walk through bathroom? It seems to me that this would not be convenient when you have guests or visitors. I see that the walk through is fairly popular. What is the advantage?

garyabc - for me, and this is only my personal preference, the walk through bathroom only works if you have the bedroom up the front (aka reverse layout) this means that you and your guests do all the living at the stern end with access to one side of the bathroom and then at night you would both have unobstructed access from both sides - during the day if the bathroom was in use then access to the bow can still be achieved via the gunwales or roof or towpath - the big advantage of the walk through is the additional space it gives but with the boat effectively being divided in two then heating of the bedroom might be an issue especially if you rely solely on a log burner type stove in the saloon

garyabc @Martin Bissell explained it very well - as the front of the boat contains only our bedroom, we wouldn’t have guests in that area anyway, so there is essentially no traffic through the bathroom. If we change ours to a walk-through, we will get a little extra space in a bathroom that is quite tiny at the moment - very tricky when drying off after a shower! 😊

In some ways yes... I think we will find it much more relaxing now that we are no longer working in location-based jobs that require driving. It was a bit stressful making sure we were moving in accordance with our cruising licence as well as finding a mooring spot along the canal that had car access. We would have moored in a marina but there were none close by with availability. Also, it’s nice not to be renting and knowing that this boat is our home and we can put our own mark on it!

Thanks! Our mattress has a good couple of inches between the sides of it and the walls, so it’s not touching them which means no mould 😊 I know there are products you can get as an mould-proofing underlay for mattresses which would probably work just as well against the walls.

@@NarrowboatChef ok brilliant, I shall look into that. Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. :)

No problems! 😊

Well first off - is it even possible to ‘finish’ Skyrim??? Every time I start a new game, I discover a new quest or a new person or a previously undiscovered location! 😂😂 We’ve been in England for 4 years now and we came over as we both love Europe and the UK so we decided that 30+ hours of flying just for a couple weeks holiday every now and then wasn’t enough! We decided to move over here so that we could really experience and explore the countries.

@@NarrowboatChef Ok maybe I should have been clearer, I meant that I had come off it for the day, lol you are so right Skyrim is unfinishable, and then there are the mods to get into, I love mods. Wow sounds great, enjoy your stay in the UK, we have some great places as I am sure you will soon discover, I live here and am still bowled over by the beauty of my country.

Thanks Jane! Yes, we love the layout of our boat, it works really well for us. Very happy to hear you’re enjoying the vlogs so much! 😊🥰

Best game ever! 😁

Yep. I only started playing a few months ago. I was playing Minecraft and a friend of mine told me, if you like Minecraft you will love Skyrim. And he was right! Oh, and I am very much enjoying the vlogs. One of my bucket list items is to one day ride on a narrowboat!

We play Skyrim and Minecraft all the time! 😁 Glad you’re enjoying the vlogs, I’m sure you’ll get on a narrowboat one day!

We did indeed! We painted the walls above the gunnels, we changed the bedroom layout and we ripped out the bathroom and replaced it with a completely new bathroom that is much brighter! We've still got the kitchen to tackle though... 😅 All the upgrades have been filmed, you should be able to find them on our channel and see how the boat has progressed 😉

@@NarrowboatChef wow, that sounds awesome!!!

Not yet

Hey, exciting to hear you might be moving aboard soon! We have no problems playing online games - we have gaming laptops and a wifi unit that has 200gb per month download. Most of the games that we play are online ones and watching Netflix doesn’t actually eat into our available data that much. It’s certainly easier while we are moored up in a marina over winter (due to power reasons) however we can easily play while the engine is running if we are out cruising without draining the boat batteries.

@@NarrowboatChef Thanks for the reply, that is awesome news 😀

madgarlick no problems!

She’s a wire haired fox terrier.

No, we paddle it everywhere... 😉 Yes, we have an engine

This was one of our earliest vlogs, filmed at the very start of 2019 - the video you’re referring to about painting the bedroom walls was one that we did recently, only a few months ago! 😊

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That’s an internet aerial 😊 It just boosts the signal for us, as living in a steel tube isn’t great for signals!

Boat life sounds perfect. I love the idea and the freedom a boat offers. Please keep the vids coming.

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