Don't lose £20,000 On Your Next Canal Boat Purchase! WATCH THIS VIDEO!! 

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This guy is speaking so much sense. I work in the oil and gas industry and I have knowledge of how corrosion works. This is how it is. It’s not rocket science but it is something everyone should understand. It’s like car restoration, you can’t build on a sows ear. Excellent video. I have no idea how it appeared in my videos..All the best.

Great to listen to someone who is so knowledgeable in his field and who is not prepared to ‘bodge it and leg it’.

As a prospective buyer of probably an older boat, this information is great. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to film and upload; and when I am ready to buy, I'll be in touch to see what you have available. Subscribed.

Great to see how you do the job right from the start. Hope this gets you lots more work and recognition for a job well done. 😎😎

Subscribed. Very interesting to learn how boats should be cared for. Customers with this knowledge will help raise standards across the industry by putting the costcutters out of business, and supporting the real businesses. Thank you.

Thank you for taking the trouble to make this interesting and highly informative video.

A great video from an honest man,well done sir,you are a great ambassador for your company,best wishes,Phil.

Great vlog Rachel, you're filming is really top notch. You make it so so interesting. Stay safe xx

Excellent video moral always get a comprehensive survey at a reputable yard.

We live in Wilmington, NC on the Intercoastal Waterway and have discussed having a wide beam canal boat to use on the waterway. Knowing that the Intercoastal waterway is primarily Salt Water, therefore we want a canal boat that is built our of one of the new Poly products opposed to steel or fiberglass. We are having a difficult time finding such a boat builder in the US but will continue our search for such a seasoned boat builder. If we lived in the UK you would certainly be the person we would want to talk with!!

I've seen people complain in boat forums that getting a boat ultra-high pressure jetted or shot blasted then epoxy painted is really expensive and they can clean the hull and stick bitumen over it but this video really demonstrates how that's a total false economy. I fear that some people are just patching things up for a couple of years then selling the boat rather than taking a longer-term view of the life of a boat so I'm going to share this video with anybody that doesn't understand how doing it properly is important. Thanks!

Enjoyed this video, you talk a lot of sense. Thanks

Thank you so much for making this video.

vey informative, thank you

A Real #Professional who cares about #Quality and does the work properly the first time - next time I need sandblasting, hull inspection, weld repair and epoxy before painting you just earned yourself a customer ..

this is the kind of man you would want to do business with ,,, no messing and old school standards but with modern technology and systems in place to back it all up.

your right on the spot! stuppid over painting eveywhere!

Very informative channel, What are your thoughts on the base plate a lot of people don't paint them? and watching your vlogs you don't mention the base plate either what do you do? Your thoughts please

Very informative and interesting, I wouldn't have thought that a couple of mm of pitting was very serious though. Surely blacking narrowboat hullshas been done successfully for years. Not wanting to be critical but there are lots of good boats that have been treated that way?

This is very informative, I would love to do a fit put on the interior woodwork and fittings, perhaps I might get myself a project boat with a good foundation as you have described, Subbed, and looking forward to watching your skill on your channel. Thanks for sharing 👍📐🔨😄

Ever thought about offering workshops to show people how to do the easy bits, I would get a lot of satisfaction fixing my boat (if I had one). Obviously some people wouldn’t know the difference between a flat head and a pozi drive, but others may be very adapt.

I hope you get subscribers soon you do a good job unlike others iv seen who get more clients

When you black a boat is it usual do underneath as well

A honest business

Would it be worth giving it a few coats of red oxide as another layer of protection ?

How long do these epoxy coatings last and how can you tell if they have failed and need re-blasting?..Had mine grit blasted and expoxied from new... Best investment..seems to be holding up 15 years on with a sand and a couple of over coats every five years.

its the old saying you get what you pay for ,I have seen loads of narrow boat blacking vids and never understood why they never or rarely do the actual hull only do the side madness

my boat was gritblasted and epoxy coated 7 years ago , thinking possibly time for a recoat , is this as easy as cleaning and giving another coat of the same , any tips would be welcome thanks

Doing it the proper way for the life of your boat . Unfortunately most boatyards don't offer this just jet blast and slap on blacking ..

So you don't recommend blacking. I've not got a boat but I like to learn about things I'm interested in. Tips for if I buy a boat.

The one thing that struck me from day one was that there really seems to be a mentality of "we've always done it like that" in the narrowboat world. Fine if those things work, not so fine otherwise!

I know nothing about building boats but are there different grades of steel which can be used to build a narrow boat. I don’t mean thickness I mean the actual quality. It’s nice to hear someone telling it as it is. Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺.

Great video what do you think about copper coat on hulls i read about in a canal magazine this month i always used on commercial trawlers i owed and had great results

I have just stumbled across this channel, and have now subscribed! What do you mean by 'overplate'?

Steel boats act as battery plates allowing current at low voltage to pass through it hence corrosion. There is no protection against this unless measures are taken at the time of construction of the boat. And as we know they are not.

very interesting. whats rough cost of sandblasting and painting hull for a 70ft narrowboat. are you confident it can last 7 to 10 years.

How long have canal boats been in existence. How long has epoxy been around. I wouldnt come down too hard on bitumin pain. Still being used in Australia on wooden hull vintage vessels.

I may be wrong here everytime I’ve seen grey primer used rust spots always appear personal I use red oxide primer and I’ve never ever had this problem in fact it’s probably the best stuff I’ve ever used I’ve just done the hand rails on my boat to see the outcome …. Always used red oxide to stop my Land rovers rusting out I may be wrong each to there own I just thought I’d see if anyone agrees with me or thinks it’s a terrible idea I’ve always had great results with it and I’m not a pro at all ……. 😅

Could you vinyl wrap a boat??? Even if it lasts for a year

Do anodes make a difference? Why do some boats don't have them? Many thanks .

How long is your waiting list being one of the few that offer this?

I would question the sacrificial anodes on the boat. They seem to be the same size and shape of a new one? Be careful who you buy your anodes from.

Yes, the old worn out 'that's what we've always done'. I hate that phrase and feel like telling them (in the case of boats - I would adapt for other scenarios) why not stick to using dug out canoes then? They were good enough for centuries. I am very impressed with your attitude to hull protection. I've been watching narrow boating vlogs very closely for a few years now and have to say I hate the idea of blacking. I grew up on sail boats, so it was always about ensuing whatever you put on was well keyed so that it adhered fully all over and did its job. Epoxy wasn't what it is now. Can I ask what your philosophy is about protection for the base plate? I hear some saying paint them and some claiming it is a waste of time due to shallow canals. Does epoxy stand up to scraping the bottom of canals very well? (shopping trolleys and other metal/stone things not included.) I am looking at the best option to end up with a boat to live on in retirement as a continuous cruiser for as long as possible once I retire back to UK. I'm wondering about the possibility of finding the right used boat and reworking it to suit what we are looking for - big windows with sills brought down as low as possible to be able to see out while sat on a sofa/captain's chairs, squared off cruiser stern to be able to have a fold down wheel house rather than what amounts to a tent, electric propulsion backed up by plenty of solar and a generator in a 'hospital enclosure' (we are both averse to the noise of diesel cruising) plus a few other simple tweaks not commonly found on conventional narrow boats.

Wonder why they don’t make the hulls of stainless steel

I got it the first time … no need to keep repeating yourself! 😂👍🏽

Are the sacrificial anodes zinc? They don't look like they have been doing their job. I have heard that in fresh water they should be aluminium.

Beats me why boat builders don't simply use marine-grsde stainless steel, and then galvanise it.

Amazing! Someone who knows what sa2.5 is.

What is the scrap value of boat 3 ? It looks a rubbish quality build with wavy rubbing plates only tack welded/glued on and awful detailing of stem. I totally concur there is lacking appreciation of not only using appropriate prep (shot blasting) and paints (epoxy) but applying correctly (rigid respect for humidity and temperature, cure times between coats, application methods etc). Seems to me too many people who realistically cannot actually afford a boat buy one with romantic illusions of a more affordable existence; instead left captive in an extended ditch with devaluing asset unlike real estate which is invariably cost effective, and cheaper to maintain, in longer term.

Rather than putting unnecessary labour into a boat that isn't really worth it, why not make it impossible to be put back in the water. And make it into a glamping pod type of air bnb dwelling that will be forever land based.

Buy a Sea Otter Narrow boat all Aluminium no sand blasting needed fantastic boats needs a guy like Elon Musk to invent Narrow boat now !!

Problem is the quality of the steel. Newer the boat, poorer the quality - Chinese import these days. I had 1929 iron build - still floating around somewhere - bit of paint every now and again to make it look good, but no pitting. Engine was 1930 - 2 cyl cov godiver (used in fire trucks) Only spares needed was inj nozzles, everything else remove,clean,put back. No money pit, and thump-thump all day.