The lancaster canal dramatically drops overnight. My narrowboat journey continues.. 

buymeacoffee.com/Narrowboatwill Thanks for the help. ❤❤❤

The breach was first reported on the 3rd June ! Nice one CRT. Maybe if funds for maintenance were given a higher priority than establishing tow-path cycle tracks the problem could have been dealt with. BTW Will.. you mentioned that the lubricant was supposedly better than WD40.. as an established and capable DIYer, I'm sure you know that WD40 isn't a lubricant :>) Keep it up Will...

Love the vlog Will, you were like a BBC news reporter ….. on the scene reporting the breach and developments as they happened 🗞️👨‍💼. It was scary though how fast the water was disappearing out of the canal, just glad no one got hurt.

I bet your analysis of the cause (tree roots) was spot on. They just leave these trees to grow in random places and are blind to the damage they could cause. They would not have been able to leave them when horses pulled the boats. Cheers Will.

Thankyou pleased they got the canal sorted a bit, and got good stuff from car boot, take care

No wonder your Canal License keeps going up. It must cost a huge amount to fix something like that,out in the Country side. How nice of Sue to come along and warm your Cockles . Never a Dull moment on the Canals with ‘ Will ‘ 😊. You will need a bigger boat soon with all these visits to Car Boots . Cheers

Will, I hope your son is having better luck with his boat. If he approaches life as you do, he’ll overcome the current obstacles and all this mess will become a faded memory. He’s just lucky that he has a father like you. Best wishes to you and yours.

Ohh dear Will , that's the last thing you need , a breach like that , i remember seeing somewhere , there was a breach on another canal , & it completely drained the canal , you always seem to come out if those carboots with alot more than you wanted , & usually stuff you don't want . 😅😅

The car boot sale sounds terrific! Will the breach was really making the canal move like a river. Thank you for your video.

I will i hope all go,s well wiht the breach on the canal and your boat is safe good looka all the best for now 😊

That was a spectacular breach, 😮 a bit scary, not so much you can do. I hope you're in the clear now, "your journey continues"❤

And your good helping people ..

That breach was scary. Luckily it streamed in another stream and dammed it off. Hope it gets repaired soon. Good you have your family and golf to keep you busy!

Wow!!! I was sat at my computer editing for my youtube channel and up popped your video. Pressed play and 🥳🥳 it looks like I'm first view. COOL. Safe cruising Willlllll. Paul.

Keep up your great content Will, now watching today's offering from yourself. Cheers matey

Great vlog again Will 👍🏻 wow it just shows you how things can change quickly 😩 🎧👊🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Love your content but would suggest 1 thing. Get yourself some decent quality MC4 connectors and a crimper for your solar panel stuff. . I'd hate to see your boat have a fire due to poor electrical connections. Hope all is good and there's not too many holes in the canal!

great vlog cranking it on the cut thanks lee

Great video Will. i hope they fix the breach soon. I always hate seeing those lovely birds tied up, they should be flying free. Good haul at the car boot. I could do with those connectors for my model railway. Stay afloat buddy.

My husband is a plumber. You should hear what he says about Chinese stuff. You are not wrong Will. Rock on!

Hi Will, Just a word on those low melting solder butt connectors, I used to use them for a while but stopped after I got a couple of jobs I used them on back again, over time (just 6 months or so) the solder inside went very brittle and started falling apart, the only thing holding the connection together was the twist I put in the wire and the glue that soaked into the pvc insulation, A quick pull and the wires would just come apart. Like you said cheap Chineesium. Im sure you could get better quality connectors from Lucas at a premium but for me it's back to the solder, flux and heat-shrink. Hope your not stranded and the CRT fixed the breach 👍

Afternoon Will. Well done for going to find that breach and showing us. Quite a flow on the canal even several miles away where your boat was "beached". Have to admit I thought he ain't moving that when I saw how high out of the water your boat was. But Will's Super Strength no doubt helped.😂😂😂😂. Did you have to step into the canal to get the push angle?! Some years ago there was a breach on Leeds and Liverpool near Parbold/,Burscough and local farmers dropped loads of clay in at two swing bridges to isolate the leaking section. Anyway, looking forward to the next vlog. 👍👍. Paul

Hi will you have once again produced a truly amazing video.. Very interesting and very informative .. unfortunately will these types of canal breaches are going to become common place.. In the future .. years ago they used to close sections of the canal bto carry out maintenance on the canal walls.. however when the government handed over control of the canals to the c r t. This maintenance stopped.. Years ago a fellow narrow boater came up with a system to stop the water loss when the canal was breached.. and was ignored by the c r t.. However it was picked up by a American company who put it into production . And it's use is used today by councils across the UK.. when rivers burst Thier Banks. Strange that it uses the water pressure to seal the breach.??? How do they stop the water when you have a hole in the boat .??? They cover it with a tarp and the water pressure outside does the rest. Anyway will as always keep yourself safe and well mate filthy thumbs up 👍 👍 👍 👍..

Awwww always something to stress one out do hope it was all resolved tc now Will thinking of you we have tough times with health the oldies 👍👍👍👍👍🤗

Keep doin the Johnny Morris animal voices HILARIOUS 😂 Good luck on the Lancaster Wil… x

You are absolutely right about electrical tape. Last week I was building a wiring harness and I needed to replace some tape that was unraveling, which was only a year old. I did some research and the guys on the electricians forums all said that 3M Super 88 was the absolute best. I bought a roll on Amazon for almost $9. It was unraveling one day after I put it on. I had to put wire ties over it to hold it on. RIDICULOUS!

The ups and downs of boat life forever adding to the strife of life.

It’s crazy how much the waterways have fallen into disrepair. It’s so sad to see, Woodhead and other reservoirs in the north are almost empty. Which is nuts with how much rain and flooding we’ve had this past year. Clearly United utilities and CRT desperately need to get on top of all of these breaches and dredging. I really hope that this doesn’t hold you back for too long 🤗

that gave you a bit of excitement , we had plenty rain ☔☔here its really cold now , had the heating on for once , don't tell that man at number 10 he will cut my pension . good shopping haul , more Balls ????? take care

great vlog cranking it on cut thanks lee

Local reporter Will on the scene!📰:)

Nice 1 Will 👍

Its bad enough when somebody leaves a lockgate open or paddle up, but that is an absolute nightmare.Hope you are o.k.

@8:20 - "...the older ones, the ones who can't get off the sides like I can ya know." Says the "young" man while wearing two pairs of glasses. 🤣😄 Face it Will, we're old farts now. lol. Also, "Chinese-ium", never heard that one before. Look at that, NarrowboatWill, not only an entertaining channel but educational one as well! 🤣😂 Remember when the standard business model was, "how do we improve our product and service to increase our customer base."? Well now it's, "how cheaply can we make stuff and still get away with it". 🙄🙄 Sorry for the rant. Now back to our regularly scheduled useless comment. 😁 Glad you came out of it okay and nothing was damaged Will. I can only imagine the worry you have to have had watching the water literally drain right out from under your home. Thanks for sharing. Take care. 👍👍

Phoned CRT today. Breach is passable for one week from 26/09. After that it's closed again for the main repair. So, you have a choice of location Nth or Sth of the breach. Ribble Link repair starts 03/10 until December. In Dec there 'may' be a chance of crossing the Ribble. Maybe not, depending on tides and weather etc. Potentially you may be stuck on the Lanky until April. We've decided to stay the winter here, on the Nth side of the breach.

That breach looked like water going down a plughole!😬not good! Hope they eventually sort it😏agree the way stuff not so well made.👍👍

They certainly must have lost a lot of water in the breach of the bank. Love a car boot 😊

Love the vlog Will, and your T shirt. Just noticed it says Filty thumbs up. ( not filthy!)😮

Chinesium 😂😂😂 Glad your ok

Thanks for another great video. How often do you need to pump out your 'morning duties'? And what does it cost, please? Are pump-out stations readily available.

Looks like time to find an old Ford Fiesta and shove it in the breach.

please, for the love of god, zoom out when filming

Those on-line sites can make money at cheap prices because they: 1) Completely and utterly exploit their workers through over long hours, terrible working conditions, slave wages and a total lack of health and safety. 2) They use the poorest possible materials they can buy; which are made by another workforce just as poorly treated as the manufacturers. 3) The goods are made to exceedingly poor standards, designed only to look the part on the website and have no quality or useability. But people don't care that what they're buying is on the back of the extreme exploitation of a bunch of strangers halfway around the world, only that it's cheap. 🤦‍♀😠

You would think CRT would have hessian bags full of sand on standby for breaches. They could just flop a couple of tons into the hole and give it a filthy thumbs up 👍🏽

I wonder if the haggis have found their way down from Scotland and been digging in the banks

Too far to cycle??? I do the Bridgewater from Dunham to Pennington Flash and back for fun mate and I'm 76 years old.......

Lots and Lots of Sandbags I suppose.

That’s scary !

Its a very low tide

White-water narrowboating? Could catch on?

There didn’t seem to be any urgency with sorting it out, I kept waiting for them to have their tea break

Helicopter with 2 ton baggs of type 1

A lot of stuff you buy now is cheap and nasty,stuff costs peanuts to make yet costs arm and a leg to buy.

Sorry will it’s my tv😢

Xx

He is completely insane to speak to Iran about exactly what he is doing to Israel people with their taxes