I so enjoy your RU-vid videos. Once in a while I will do a fb post about your videos and how relaxing they are. Just wanted to say keep them coming your doing amazingly. Have a wonderful day tomorrow cruising 💖☺️💖
Lovely and peaceful video . Looking forward to the next one. It better be a good video as Well Deck Diaries one was superb 😆😆😉 so no pressure😆😆😉 haha. Only Joking. Stay safe x
First off, beautiful music!! Great choices. But most of all the Laura Maisie is beautiful!! I’d guess she moves very well through the water. Keep safe and continue on..🤟😍
Thanks Steve- she does move through the water well. We like the way she looks too, but we will probably be getting a rear cover due to practical reasons with the dogs..... we'll see, Thanks again for watching,
Love how quietly LauraMaisie purrs. Glides through the water like a hot knife through butter and you can still clearly hear all the bird song and other sounds around. Beautiful ☺️
I have viewed others trips up and down the Canals and they didn't seem as picturesque as what yours are, being from the USA, I'm not familiar with the sites and the names of the rivers are unknown to me but, they are still wonderful to see. I thank you so much for sharing your tours with me, I'm sure I'm speaking for many others. I'm going to subscribe to your channel, leave a thumbs up, and a tap on the bell. I love your "Home away from Home" and I hope to see more of your travels, they are exciting. Cheers!
So lovely to see you cruising again. Such a quiet narrowboat--can hardly hear the engine purr. Looks like the dogs are settled in now. You must be on the heels of the Foxes! Look forward to many more vlogs on the Laura Maisie. Greetings from British Columbia.
hi guys, nice to see you today sitting on the bench at dutton park. Had a nice chat and made us extremely jealous. The boat looks absolutely amazing. Hope you make it into Liverpool Albert Dock and enjoy the city. All the very best Ron and Barb (with the 2 Labradoodles).
Hi Ron and Barb - you found us then 👍😃. It was so nice to meet you both yesterday and wasn't until after we wished we'd invited you aboard for coffee - not used to relaxed rules, next time eh? We're on Facebook and Instagram as Floating Our Boat so please keep in touch and maybe we could meet for drink/coffee soon. All the best Fran and Rich
Very nice little trip. Thanks for sharing. That was quite a slide on the hillside...good that no one was living on the edge. It is hard to believe , with such massive trees nd roots, that the hill slipped at all. Nice lending library off to the side. Y'all have a Blessed day.
I would love to live in the UK. With all the canals and passenger trains, I would always be on the move. Thank you for revealing the boat life on the canals. I am retired from the U S Coast Guard and would love to be able to live on the water.
I just found your channel, it popped up in my recommendations. So glad it did ! I'm hypnotized with fascination by what I'm seeing. How lovely to see the English country side from the water. New subscriber following you from landlocked Kansas USA
Thank you so much. It must all seem very strange to you. We do believe we see the best of the English countryside from the canal view. Thank you for subbing
Hi to all the crew on lovely Laura Maisie..2 legged and 4 legged....enjoy your new cruising adventures....are you chasing Colin, Shaun & Otis on Foxes Afloat...!!!!
Hi Fran & Rich, so great to see you both! What a lovely peaceful cruise. Laura Maisie is beautiful. Hope the weather held for you at the Anderton Boat Lift. Have a wonderful visit with those other wonderful Narrowboat cruisers! Thank you for sharing, take really good care, stay safe! Much love Kathy x
As an observation on safety. We had an Elton Moss boat and the same length tiller arm as you. Linda from Cheshire Cat pointed out to us that should we hit the rudder and be steering from outside on the back it was possible we would get knocked in. So on her advice we bought a longer arm and thus were able to steer from inside the back doors.
Hi Guys, Glad to see you are both well and that you have finally aquired your new home. Did the walk through with you and it looks fabulous, well done. I have not commented for a while but had to say that Foxes Ep150 is a brilliant explanation of the plans intended over the next few years by The Runcorn Canal Society about the restoration of the Runcorn Arm. If you have not seen it by now you will be amazed. Ep151 is about the dry dock down there which is also an eye opener. Proper Job.
It's good to see you out and about. A week or so ago, Foxes Afloat posted a video which included details of the project to 'reconnect' the 'Runcorn arm' of the Bridgewater to the Ship Canal. Worth watching.
Laura Maisie is looking just wonderful. When I feel a bit pissed off with life in grey old London I think of all you narrowboaters, the Foxes, Well Deck Diaries and many more. I've told others about this but you all have all made things so easier for us to get through these gawd awful times during the lockdown. Thanks. Stephen.
I just found you! What great adventure. I think we forget that England has some beautiful places. Even though I'm in Tennessee now, you mentioned a cup of tea and biscuit so I'm off to make a brew! Old habits die hard 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Wonderful. So glad to see you back out on the canals, cruising through the villages, cities and lovely English countryside. I've missed it a lot, though, I suspect, not nearly as much as you. Thankful for the privilege of tagging along. Keep having fun!
Laura and Maisie sounds sweet 😀 Bet your so pleased with her 🤔 Fran looks so happy at the helm 🤣🤣 Since they build the new bridge Mersey gateway Runcorn is a ghost town 😩
There is somethng so restful, so English about the whole channel. You are a real tonic in a very hectic, divided world! My mum, God bless her, was English, and although she never got home again after the war, her affection and respect for her country took root in an Irish son. I've never lived in England, but it feels like home in a funny schizophrenic way!
Oh that boat just looks so elegant, beautifully designed and clearly finished to a very high standard, especially the paint. Still looking forward to the interior tour.
Now for some serious cruising, no more filling cupboards, no more of "Where shall we put this or that". Just enjoy your spanking new beautiful boat doing what its built for. Did you know Runcorn used to be the Leather capital of the UK When I was sailing with Manchester Liners we used to load tons of wet salted cow hides from the Stockyards of Chicago destined for Runcorn Good for you changing back to hemp I was at sea when ships started changing to synthetic rope mostly Polypropylene and Nylon from Hemp and Sisal Hemp is very strong Sisal not so much but a lot cheaper. Nylon Stretches beyond belief ,Poly melts on a winch barrel under tension then gives way suddenly which can be dangerous to the AB on the winch barrel. Hemp is heavier especially when wet but acts very predictably doesn't get kinked lasts forever if looked after ,dried out and stored properly. I'm looking forward to the Anderton, My Sister in Somerset went on the Falkirk Wheel a couple of years ago which I guess is the modern equivalent. While you're up there tell Fran to look out for Sky Apples, I know she likes foraging Enjoy you're maiden voyage. Happy cruising. Cheers from Canada
Thank you Ralph. We are enjoying cruising now at last and it is wonderful to be living the life again. That is very interesting about the leather and the ropes, thanks for the information. x
Nice to see the two of you cruising again. I can’t wait to visit the Liverpool area when I get on the water. If the Bridgewater is so clean and owned by the Manchester company, it must be all that rain! 😉 It’s mind-blowing when you get up close the structures such as the green bridge on your Runcorn trip. No doubt the Alderton lift will be even more so from a boaters-eye view. Take care the both of you.
Hi You two ! Your looking good and not far away from me in Northwich Yarwood close which use to be the Yarwoods Boat Yard Opposite the Dry Dock in between the River Weaver and River Dane. Well you have certainly been blessed with some sunny weather just recently but still cold in the morning and night. Anyway guys take care and stay safe 🥰😁
G'day Fran and Rich. At 3:57 there is a lovely piece of footage of a trees and flowers. Every time I have seen other Boaters film countryside like that. I feel if I had a boat there in the UK, I would stop and have a run around a place like that.
So....who handles the boat better ? The Mrs or the Mr ? Well we will see who answers the question I guess lol 😆 you folks are great, to me it's you and foxes Afloat that I love to watch , great content and videos ...thanks from across the pond , your making me fall In love with boating .Tom
