I'm so proud of you Lorna. We've watched your pink dream come true with excitement. It's here. You've overcome the stumbling blocks and now we're enjoying the new adventures on beautiful Foxglove. Thank you and well done. You've inspired me to put the big girl pants on and "just get on with life". 🎉❤
I'd love to drop over for a barbie, if I start swimming now I'll be there in about 18 months 😁 A nice little branch but it could do with a clean out, those rushes are closing in.
Greeat Vvlogs Lorna... walking the whole length of the grand Union canal...wow..... didn't Julia bradbury do something like that a few years ago, I have a dvd of her, but can't remember which canal she did....
That was a nice journey that you filmed and well done for going through the tunnel a second time! Also it a very nice tunnel, BBQ.... haven't had BBQ for ages
Lorna, I am new to your channel. I am from the USA. I enjoy the scenery and comments however not to fond of the background music. I would love to just hear the motor and nature. Keep sailing! Scott SC, USA
I didnt think anything could go that slow,thats not walking pace thats crawling pace ,cmon girl step it up a bit.i made my dinner while you were going through that tunnel hahaha
That was a nice journey! Also: I am so jealous of you sitting in that cute little boat with the rain pooring down. Now all you need is a nice hot cup of tea.
Very introspective, sometimes the mental challenge is greater than the physical and when you overcome both the warm feeling of success is gratifying. A lovely peaceful journey. BBQ? Count me in...☮️from ex-pat yank living in Mekong Delta Vietnam. Thanks.
There again lots of newby hire boaters blithely do the tunnels without a second thought. Granted there's probably a bit less paint on the bows after a tunnel transit but that's probably the worst of it. It might be that some people overthink the problems and should just get on with it.
You have a headlight in the bows hopefully pointing at the roof of the tunnel to avoid dazzling oncoming boats. good idea to have a light on at the stern to avoid anyone running into you
Plus the blasted reeds act as an armature to collect the silt. If you see reeds then you can be sure the canal is silting up. Clearing the reeds involves a fair bit of dredging too. Eventually the canal system in areas where there's little hire boat traffic will silt up and die. Ironically we see old dewatered canals being resurrected by self funding volunteer groups, which is a good thing ... but other less well known canals are allowed to silt up and become unnavigable. Those canals with few locks end up becoming vast settling ponds because the wake erodes the banks and the silt isn't flushed away by the lock operations. The Ashby is one such and provides excellent training for getting off the shelf about every five minutes. The problem is lack of funds. DEFRA will cease to fund the canal network and consequently CRT have raised the licence fee per boat, depending on length and, on the widebeam canals, by the beam or width. I was obliged to pay another £200 this year and we'll see a similar increase next year and the year after that. Unfortunately a lot of poor people live on the canals because renting a house is beyond their finances. It seems that the increase in licence fees will be a stretch too far and these people will be evicted from the waterways, never to return. Their boats will be seized and sold off to recoup the legal costs. It seems too that there's no real strategy to maintain the canal system and it may be that the system will end up with disused canals ... until we see volunteers reclaiming them in years to come. Some authorities propose (and goodness knows where the money will come from) reintroducing freight across the network and raising income from that. It is claimed that rebuilding canals brings an income to those areas but I'm old enough and skeptical enough to wonder how accurate these comments are. However it may be that freight takes priority and hire boaters find that completing a so called "ring" ( invented by the ad men) becomes very difficult in the duration of the hire. For continuous cruisers this won't be too much of an inconvenience. Hope that helps.
How long does it take, that is my one fear, is tunnels. Haven’t bought boat yet but wondering how I can avoid tunnels, though I would like to overcome the fear. Well done Lorna!
