MY BOAT : Just pottering 

This is the most idyllic, beautiful and smooth trip we’ve been on with you and SB2! Thank you as always for taking us with you! Have great weekends one and all!

Now this is what I call a wonderful day on the water, relaxing, enjoying the scenery and life. It doesn't get much better than that. Thank you Nick for taking us along.

What a fantastic time, thank you so much for taking us along 😊

You remind me of the Water Rat in Wind in the Willows when you enthuse about boating, “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Great video!

Serene. Even a day on his own gets witnessed by a global audience! 😊.

Yep, agree with your comment on the convenience of a smaller boat. Big luxurious cruisers are beautiful and the image of that lifestyle is so tempting, but if you just want to get out on the water there is nothing better than a boat you can just hop in, turn the keys, and go. Wonderful video Nick!

All you can hear, lapping sea on the shore, the birds calling to one another, rustling of the wind, SB2 moving with the water. Cruising along the coast admiring the colour of the sea, the beaches, houses basking in the sunshine. Lazy hazy day as you potter around. Thanks for that Nick, hope you enjoyed your day I know I did enjoy your video.

Nick... if there's ever a day you think your work isn't important, consider this. I was laid up in bed and/or a a wheelchair in the hospital since my leg quit working on June 27th. I was in the regular hospital for 5 days, and a rehab hospital after that until this past Sunday. I'm now getting "home health" as they call it here in the U.S. to get my right leg working again... using a walker and a cane as I can. Your videos kept me going and honestly, destracted (in a very good way) while I was laid up in the hospital. Thank for for making me smile through these dark times for me. I mean that.

Suffice to say Nick, simply splendid. What a way to spend an afternoon. Thanks, once again, for sharing your own boating time and pleasures. It’s great to see the mega expensive yacht’s that are only accessible to a small minority of the world’s population but just goes to show how enjoyable boating that’s much more attainable to the rest of us mere mortals can be. Very interesting about the headland sea state was, I believe it’s very similar around the Needles too. Keep ‘em coming, very enjoyable watching.

Greetings from Marco Island, Florida! I am blessed to have a 42' Boston Whaler Center Console, triple Mercury 450Rs in tow... Great boat for offshoring fishing 10-20 miles out, sticking to the mangroves around the south end of the island or just cruising the canals up in Naples... Great fishing and lots of boats to check out. In Naples, my boat is a dingy! We're year-round boaters in South Florida and it NEVER gets old.

From Australia - very nice to see you take your boat out and enjoy a one handed trip. Well done Nick.

Thusly - another fantastic journey on Smuggler's Blues 2. Many thanks for sharing your time on the water. 🤗 🍷

"Utterly brilliant that what's boating is" couldn't have said it better myself Nick 👍🏻 Thanks as always from Colorado USA!

Pottering about with boats and the water. The clanking of footsteps on the pontoon, the movement of the boat when you board. It's a happy happy place ! .. 😊 🇬🇧

Thank you Nick for a wonderful day out. It really felt I was on your boat from start to finish.

Never got the hype surrounding boating until my friends forced me into it and I haven’t looked back since. There’s something about it that I can’t explain, but it’s just sublime. Nothing like a day on the boat! I’ve got a Sea Ray 510 here in America on the Chesapeake Bay and I’m on it almost every weekend of the summer! Salute from one boater to another!

So, living here in the Midlands (miserably) I felt like a bit of boating this afternoon - and having watched this, I honestly feel like I've had my wish! Brilliant - so relaxing watching this

Salcombe in a few weeks,hire a little open boat with a 15hp Tomatsu, up to Kingsbridge,pint and a pie at The Crabshell,and for a few hours I’m Don Johnson 👊

A Grand Day Out! Half a century ago I sailed into Dartmouth on board the Sir Winston Churchill, but the harbour wasn't so busy in those days!

Nick calls out boats like a car guy calls out cars. What a beautiful day! A few months back I went on a vacation to Mexico and an excursion on a catamaran and absolutlely loved it, all my Aquaholic videos came to life.

Absolutely love these kind of videos Nick - thank you. Got my permis bateau/level 2 licence a few years ago in Antibes and I'm heading down to Hyères/Toulon next week where I'm renting a 7m 140hp RIB with some friends - cannot wait! Please keep this kind of content coming!!

Thanks 😊for the 🛥️ ride!

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to share your personal adventures with us, I know that many of us really appreciate the opportunity to go boating with you, it brings enormous pleasure to those of us that don’t enjoy the privilege of being on the water. Thank You Nick.

Well that was a lovely days boating around beautiful Dartmouth coastal scenery. So idyllic that's proper boating. Thanks Nick 😊

I enjoyed every single moment of "our" boat trip and can only repeat it: the scenery is truly breathtaking. Thanks for the great time, Nick!

Loved it, it’s so relaxing to get out on the water. I was super jealous to see you enjoying the sunshine and beautiful scenery. Thanks for sharing you’re trip out with us Nick 👍👍 🤞we will get out on our boat too this weekend, perhaps a short cruise into Windsor from Windsor Marina 👍👍

When i used to go on day trips to France I always went on the Ferry, for me it was the most enjoyable part of the trip. I love being on a boat.

Love these videos where you show the practical side of boating, taking the covers off, cleaning, etc. great video Nick!

As usual nick it's been an absolute pleasure accompanying you on a beautiful afternoon pottering about on Smuggler's Blues 2, in and around Dartmouth. Whilst the good weather is blessing us with it's presence we must take as much time as we can to spend time on our boats, as the good weather won't last indefinately.

Ouch! That’s told the current Sunseeker design team!🤠

🦘🇦🇺 Thank you Nick for such a wonderful day out on the water. Such beautiful waterways. Thank for lunch, it was beautiful. Chardonnay was just the thing. Summer days for me are spent on Sydney harbour, from Parramatta to Manly with lunch at Rushcutters Bay. All on ferries both large & small, all for $2.50. I’ll try out Lake Macquarie this year & see how that goes. 🛟🙏

It’s nice to see what going starboard out of the Dart looks like. Thanks for sharing.. that was a really nice potter ✌🏻😎✨🏴‍☠️

Wonderful had a old Shetland Suntrip 50 horse it planed well, came out from Radcliffe farm slipway back Poole harbour through the sticks showing channel and out past Brownsea Island , days in shell bay with the family, around into swanage , can almost feel the movement of the boat thank you for the bringing back the memories and feelings of those summer days in the sun.

Absolutely fantastic. I am on the South Wales coast but we don't have the coastline that you have down there on the South Coast, it really looks almost Mediterranean where you are. A different world. Absolutely love it. Thank you for sharing Nick 😊

Those conditions are what you hope to find on every outing. Of course, things seldom line up so ideally, which makes when they do, so ripe for appreciation! I LOVE BOATING! Thanks for sharing. :-)

Always nice to see her appear occasionally in your videos and the appreciation of the subscribers on your channel. Thanks for sharing and have a nice sunday, Nick...

What a lovely part of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England

Summer at last - a trip on the Dart - what could be better!!!👌👍

Thank you some taking me on a great afternoon on the water. There’s nothing , absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Great day , good scenery. ❤

When the Sun shines in the `UK there are absolutely stunning landscapes or seascapes, beautiful. Greetings from The Netherlands.

I'm sitting in my flat in Istanbul watching this. But thanks to your excellent video, Nick I'm back in UK spending 40 very enjoyable minutes on the water. Teşekkür ederim as they say here, thanks so much.

Hi Nick, that was a lovely relaxing trip thank you for taking us along.

Once I was in Dartmouth at the Royal Regatta on one of the terraces on the hillside above the village, enjoying a lobster and scallop barbeque, when suddenly the Red Arrows thundered across the scene. I will never forget that. Love your channel. Greetings from Germany

Lovely pottering video. Glorious coastal setting. Dartmouth looks so tempting. And Start Point reminded me of when I was a small boy in 1972 and we anchored (?) off it having chartered a boat from Salcombe with family and others who spent the afternoon scuba diving.

Looks like a fabulous day out! Thanks for posting...it definitely was a stress reliever just watching you enjoy a day on the water.

The scenery of the river Dart is extraordinary….

Thanks for having us along. In fact your boat pottering video from a year or two ago on that baking hot summers day is one of my all time favourites and contains the classic NB quote ‘if you want a boat and you’ve got the money to get a boat…then get a boat!’

Thank you for a bit of enjoyable relief after coming back from a funeral this lunchtime. Also thank you for turning west/ south West from Dartmouth estuary. Lovely to see the coastline from that perspective. Great Nick👍

That was amazing thank you nick for letting us potter with you the scenery was beautiful thank you nick.

Thanks for taking us along on your outing.

Great nostalgic trip up the Dart and beyond Nick,I was stationed at BRNC,RM band,and also worked at Phillip and son as an engineer great times,thanks for that.

Thanks for the boat ride, beautiful day

I truly love your channel. It is so authentic thank you for making me love boating and yachting I've learnt so much from you. Keep it up.

Stunning scenery. Nice to see a lot of boats out enjoying the fantastic weather. 😊

What a wonderful video. Great way to start the day. A coffee and enjoyable video from Aquaholic!!🤣

Love the Smuggler's Blues 2 episodes. This one especially shows why someone would want a boat.

Enjoy your videos! I had a boat similar to yours for 17 years, gave it up in 2008. You bring back lots of memories of my time on the river!

Enjoyed just pottering, and learnt a fair bit too. Thanks, Nick.

Well, you’ve done it again Nick! Treating me to another lovely day out pottering on Smugglers. I’m actually sat out on the patio in the shade, chilling and enjoying your video. Thanks again! Stan 😀🤓

What a perfect day for it!

Wonderful potter thanks for take us with you.

Wish I was with you we had a 60 ft x 10ft canal boat and I miss it greatly. Nothing like pottering about on the water. 🤩

Thanks for taking us with you Nick, very enjoyable commentary, made me relax

This is the kind of boat I would have. Plenty of value, plenty of speed, plenty of fun

Really enjoyed this voyage with you Nick on a beautiful day. Brought back happy days of boating with my dad.

Nothing better then to see the pure joy boating can give. Btw. google maps has updated the satellite view - great picture from the marina and I think we can even see Smugglers Blues.

Thank you for a relaxing pottering, I really enjoyed the trip 😀 You really are spoiling us with these videoes Nick 🙂

Excellent potter. The last time I was on a boat similar to yours, was off the point at Starehole Bay, August 1999, for the full solar eclipse. We didn't notice the tidal movement but it did go cold and very quiet! There was so much flash photography along the coastal paths it was amazing.

Thank you for taking us with you Nick. The forecast says (rare) glassy conditions on the Med this weekend, so I'm looking forward to stretching the legs on my Cranchi Clipper on a longer-than-normal trip east along the coast

Brilliant video Nick. It was nice to see you hang a right out of the harbour entrance, instead of a left towards Torquay. Beautiful coast line. I live on Gozo and the English coastline and countryside is the only things I miss. Happy weekend, everyone 🥳 🇲🇹❤

What a way to spend a day ,I dream of the days like that so relaxing your pride and joy that boat

Brilliant video Nick. You took me on a trip down memory lane as we used to holiday around there for a number of years when our children were much younger. Start bay on a beautiful English summers day is as good as anywhere. We stayed in Beesands once, there's a lovely pub, The Cricketers arms? and also a great seafood restaurant. We then stayed for years on the outskirts of Kingsbridge. We used to drive down early and park at South Milton sands for 8am in the morning! Bigbury on Sea is also a real favourite of mine. Slapton sands and Blackpool sands looked wonderful from your boat. Happy times 😄

Hi Nick thank you for the day out with you it was fun.

Every time we think, it can’t be better , you drop another epic video, Thank you! Love Rob & Theo!🎉

This was very calming the sound of the water the scenery everything 👌

Thank you Nick. What a day.

Wonderfully enjoyable. Thanks for taking us along for the blissful potter.

Fantastic day to vibe on the water 😎

That’s a perfect pottering nick really enjoyed that and perfect weather for boating thankyou .best wishes robert.

I think that was nearly as relaxing as being there Nick!! You turned right for change....nearly got to the chaos that is Salcombe! Thanks for that, I am quite chilled-out now. 😎

What a great way to start the weekend. Thank you for this calming and relaxing video!

Absolutely love it ! I cannot wait till we start all that 👍😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Excellent outing! Thanks Nick. Not as nice as being onboard with you, but it is so easy to get pulled in and enjoy.🎉 All you needed was a little Jimmy Buffet in the background!

I really enjoyed that trip out on Smugglers Blues 2. What a wonderful way to spend lazy day. Absolutely idyllic.

Was such an awesome cruise. The landscape is incredible!

WOW, beautiful costline, thanks for the ride!😎

Looks like you had a cracking day ! Absolutely Glorious!

Nice day for a potter 👍 Just catching up on your channel again, been busy getting a new to us boat, more like the Birchwood alongside yours, a Broom Ocean 37, an oldie but in good condition just waiting for the registration papers to clear and then we can bring her home. Read your article on the Ocean 37 and it giving a favourable review, it ticks all the boxes for us, river and canal capable and also useable on the coastal waters too.

Brought back some memories for me Nick. My late father had a Westerly Griffon at Kingswear when I was a lad, 40 years ago (time flys). Would love to know if the boat is still around there, she was called Huccaby, after the Tor on Dartmoor. We regularly sailed around to Torquay and occasionally down towards Plymouth and Noss Mayo, great memories. Thankfully, the river seams to have changed very little over time. Beautiful place.

Lovely Afternoon, good pottering!! Look forward to the next trip!

Don’t know how I missed this one. What a magnificent afternoon.

Always feels like we are on the boat with you Nick! 👌

Thanks for the boat ride Nick! I needed that 🤟

The coastline is really beautiful.

Thank you for inviting us on your trip!

I’ve said it before on another video featuring your boat (the airshow one I think) but these videos are the most appealing to me - If I had all the money in the world, I’d get more enjoyment from your style of boating than a multi-million super yacht with crew, jet skis, jacuzzi and the like!

I feel like I am hanging out with Nick today - this is awesome!

Agree. Loved going out on my boat totally alone with no plan but to get out on the water.

Hi Nick, I've been watching your channel for the last 5 years, my first time writing. I would really enjoy having you be on your boat and identifying the boats passing by with your knowledge and anecdotes would be nice, I enjoy the idea. Keep up the good work and salutations from Montreal QC.

Yep, folk at the marina must think I'm bonkers with my wee Yamarin 50sc berthed there - but being able to walk up to the boat and drive off in a few minutes makes it all worth while.