A couple of days before his arrival we gave each other a good haircut with Penny's dog clippers. See here for our Journey with Jesus weekly webzine for the global church. The CRT has an excellent page explaining it all, at https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/specialist-teams/managing-our-water/day-to-day but I have also done a video all about it, see vlog 247 (The Leaudown). Animals encountered include swans, sheep, horses, cats, dogs, ducks, and herons. Earlier, on the appointed day, we'd all gone as a family for a walk along the towpath. He had in a peculiar way become part of our lives - 'Oh, I think David did a vlog on that! Please share our website with your friends and family. David Alan Johns (born 15 July 1956) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. David Johns is an amazing host and everything about this show is equal parts wholesome, informative, and relaxing. And really, they look just like every other supermarket Ive ever been into (!!) Very relaxing. Enjoyed the scenery and the interesting tidbits of information about life on the canal. If we toast a sandwich in the UK, it is then explicitly referred to as a toasted sandwich or toastie. Thus at the height of summer, the panels might provide sufficient motive power as it was used but none to recharge the batteries as well.At any other time, youd have to let the panels charge the batteries for longer such that in spring and autumn it could easily take several hours to recharge for an hours worth of movement.Without an additional (conventional) generator therefore, pure solar on a canal narrowboat is only suited for weekend breaks and day boats but not constantly cruising liveaboards. It's not just the equipment - all I do is step up my laptop and microphone! Its therefore important to use wildlife-friendly washing products so as not to poison the fish, ducks, swans and other canal animals.A lot of people seem to get very irate about the grey water situation and I suppose in an ideal world, if we started again from scratch, wed be likely to use grey water tanks and have to pump them out. A presence that never took himself seriously, and often let us laugh at his mistakes so that we could avoid them, but who also had a gentle authority that we felt we could trust. I have to say, my admiration for you vloggers has grown considerably. Unfortunately I cannot as I have never used any of the rental companies myself so I cant in good conscience recommend any. In his second year of narrowboat ownership, David Johns took it on a more extensive voyage involving five rivers, one Victorian boat lift, many canals and a lot of wildlife! Have a look at Vlog 74 which is all about heating on narrowboats. So, he quit the rat race. In his second year of narrowboat ownership, David Johns took it on a more extensive voyage involving five rivers, one Victorian boat lift, many canals and a lot of wildlife! We had watched him before we had even bought a boat. I dont know of any narrowboats that steer from the front though there are some old, shorter, ones that had a wheelhouse slightly back from the middle. It has been known to happen but generally only in severe weather and often when a nearby river or stream overflows into the canal rather than the canal itself overfilling. Do you need a licence to drive a narrowboat?Incredibly and unfortunately no. A haze hung low on the canal. Here's a vlog of two more days of cruising up the Avon, from Comberton Quay where the last vlog ended, through Pershore and Evesham, and up to Offenham. There are the occasional repairs, and in one episode he ads solar panels to his boat. I really have very few fixed plans such is the joy of the narrowboating life so Ill tell you now: I dont know! Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2022. Home Videos Live Playlists Community Store Channels About Recently uploaded Popular 14:57 Merry Christmas from Keeping you company through your night-times, canal-side. After all, if we are going to be rubbing shoulders with the YouTube, Boat-Vlog, Greats, we might as well go for the full Hollywood experience and style it out. When we did, it was his vlog and the Foxes that provided the initial information. Who is Cruising the Cut? Cruising the Cut is a YouTube channel started by David Johns in July 2015. David was once a local news reporter for a major TV channel in the UK and did this for over a decade, as well as working on local radio. At a push, I will eat pickle in it as well but its not something I add by default.And no, the sandwich is not grilled, that seems to be an American thing. It was totally appalling. So youd need an hour of optimal sunshine to provide 1-2 hours of propulsion. Instead I include plenty of place names so that the viewer can look them up on Google maps and then zoom in/out, scroll around and get a much better sense of the geography than I could ever show on a video map. My tank is 62 gallons (282 litres) and I just tend to refill it when I remember, after a few weeks cruising. He chucked his job, sold his house, bought an old school, live-aboard fifty-six foot narrow boat, and started chugging along the extensive network of bucolic British canals at two miles an hour. Also, due to the shallowness of much of the canal network, any blacking on the baseplate would be quickly scraped off in many areas. A favorite quote: "I wish I could take dog happiness as a drug." Doing multiple takes of the same thing from different angles. Lorna (aka London Boat Girl) has done a comprehensive video about it, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79df3e_z6sg. It is also why it has been such good news that the move does not mean turning his back on the waterways. I get buzzed by one or two a year. A few years back, my third years watched me amazed as I wept as I tried to follow their instructions on how to set up a WhatsApp groupthing. What video gear do you use?See my gear page! Cruising the Cut. [2], In 2009, he and Owen O'Neill dramatised Stephen King's Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption for the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. I should also make clear at this point, that the David you get on Cruising the Cut is exactly the David you get off camera. I was invited to take part in a trip that very few narrowboats are able to enjoy, along the Cambridge Backs. A boater's term for the canals is a "cut," because long ago they were literally cut out of the land. I deliberately refer to what I do as 'narrowcasting' - although it pains some podcasters who see the internet as a field ripe for plucking and the avenue to stardom. David's narrowboat voyage continues up the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal as he fixes a potentially disastrous leak in the weed hatch and meets some friends who join him in convoy on their boat as he tackles the terrifying (not really) River Soar. David continues his cruise north along the River Soar, wears a funny hat because it's cold, and turns from the Soar onto the River Trent rather briefly, before joining the Trent & Mersey canal to head east across the UK. A few weeks ago I went past the well-known historic narrowboat Dover on the Grand Union Canal but its looks belie its actual interior so I went back for a proper snoop around. Secondly, without some kind of clutch mechanism, the drill would crunch the paddle gear into the end stop and ultimately this would cause wear on it, which costs the CRT money to repair or maintain. YouTube Top Charts. And, curiously, the boats have been restoring the volunteers as well. An episode in which David experiences the most glorious week of narrowboating he's had to date as he travels up the River Avon from Tewkesbury to Stratford-Upon-Avon, including a trip down memory lane to his childhood. Why dont boaters greet each other when they pass?They DO! You can view Davids episode on Nighttime on Still Waters (via YouTube) here: 265. There is no need to be cold on a narrowboat. Can I sent you a gift, whats your address?Thats a very kind thought and thank you but although I did once, several years ago, accept an unsolicited gift (a hoodie), I now prefer not to receive items and politely decline such offers though I really do appreciate the sentiment. Why dont you put maps in your videos?Im not convinced that if I show a map with a location marked it would necessarily help anyone who didnt already know where it was to know where I was. It's like, as soon as the camera was pointed at me, all rational thought, ability to string a sentence together, even to retain some semblance as a human left me completely. An episode in which David encounters dogs on and even in the canal, spots some new canal-building work in Milton Keynes, and has a small diesel leak. There are not that many truly sunny days here and no matter what solar proponents say, if its cloudy and overcast, the resulting power is much less than optimal. Boaters do pay an annual fee to the Canal and River Trust which covers provision of waste disposal services etc. This is Part 1 of 2 of the journey. Will you ever be visiting ?People often ask if Ill be going up a particular canal at any time. Why dont you have an electric engine?You do find some hybrid boats on the canal (see vlog 69 I did about just such a craft and also vlog 244 which was all about electric boats vs diesel) and electric running certainly is appealing especially when the boats just sitting in a lock but it seems a bit of an odd system with the massive battery bank and a diesel generator just to gain a bit of electric movement. Thats calculated as 40 feet / 12m usable roof length at absolute max, assuming you dont store anything else up there (which most boaters do) and that you dont want to get on the roof during lock maneouvres (which again most boaters do) x about 1.6m width which you dont want to overhang else the panels may get shredded when you go through some bridge holes or tunnels.Using high output 400W LG Neon solar panels (1m x 2m dimensions), youll get 6 panels max = 2.4kW maximum theoretical output. Just a relaxing watch and enjoying the beautiful countryside. When David Came (Cruising the Cut) The Greek myths tell us that there are times when the gods come down from Olympus to walk amongst mortals. The trouble is that with a 50+ foot, 15 tonne boat, you really need to see what its doing as you maneouvre it, rather than have it all happening behind you. As he reaches the final stage of his 2017 travels, two familiar faces pop up to help with the last strenuous leg down Hatton locks. This lovely series is a relaxing travelogue, providing ease and calm distraction The charming David Johns is narrator, captain and solo resident of a British narrowboat. Plus the supermarkets often react badly to people filming in them. All free, all the time. In which David needs to take the narrowboat out of the water to de-rust the gas locker at the bow, and has to work out how to stop his chimney from leaking. What does it cost to live aboard a canal boat?There are a huge number of variables which mean there is no simple answer to what does it cost? Please make a cup of tea, get comfortable and take a look at my Vlog 66, Vlog 67 and Vlog 68 plus the more recent Vlog 213, all of which go into the costs in excruciating detail. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2022. See here for his own website: And his Twitter feed:https://twitter.com/CruisingTheCut?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor. of thousands of video views to get any sensible money. The drone is required to be in visual range and control at all times, in the UK regulations.If you stop the boat to operate the drone (which would also necessitate bringing it to the side of the canal so as to be out of the way in case of further boats passing) then by the time youve brought the drone back and landed it and set off again, the situation ahead may have changed anyway.Plus there are so many blind corners and twisty bits on most of the canals, youd never get anywhere for always stopping. Why dont you have a generator?Dedicated diesel generators (ideally in a silenced enclosure) are great but fantastically expensive many thousands of pounds even for little ones. When David contacted me at the beginning of January about the possibility of featuring Nighttime on Still Waters in one of his vlogs, I was initially very divided about it. Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2022. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. [3], In 2016, he starred as the title character in the Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake in a critically acclaimed performance described as "powerful", "a welcome comic touch", and "all the more moving for its restraint". Those canals look very narrow, are they one-way?Very, very few bits of the canal network are so narrow that you can only get one boat through. Also, I dont like handing out my address for obvious reasons. This is a solo effort from a 50-year- old former British TV journalist David Johns. See Lornas (London Boat Girl) video about voting here. Enter any name, date, reference, Scripture, etc. Besides, I like being anonymous, that most of the people amongst whom I live and work have no idea that I podcast. As he travels, Johns points things out with a wry sense of fun. Cheers, Do you need a TV licence on a boat?This is a more complicated subject than you might imagine. In which David travels south along the wonderfully green and lush Shropshire Union canal and admires several delightful old bridges along the way plus he gets admonished for going too fast. More seasons, please! David Johns Cruising The Cut Author: David Johns Vlog 286: Click and Collect January 7, 2023 Engineering, Other Canal Topics, Vlog 8 For single-handed canal boaters, https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/fishing/angling-strategies/fishing-faqs, https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/fishing/fish-species, Links from my videos to Amazon with an affiliate code in them. In October 2015, David quit his job and went to live on a narrowboat where hes now making YouTube videos. His YouTube channels include: Cruising The Cut (narrowboats): www.youtube.com/CruisingTheCutUK CruisingTheCut @CruisingTheCut 229K subscribers Merch! It was partially the reason why I didn't create a vlog of my own. Bear in mind the boats pivot in the middle so as you turn, the back end is going out. He chucked his job, sold his house, bought an old school, live-aboard fifty-six foot "narrow boat," and started chugging along the extensive network of bucolic British canals at two miles an hour. My Drive Across America During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2021. It becomes a metaphorical journey in learning about narrowboating, changing lifestyles, and meeting challenges, as well as an actual journey along the csnals and rivers in England. We took it slow and easy, Penny reacquainting herself with old haunts that were once so familiar to her. Its fairly foolish to do so though, so most people will either try it out with friends whove done it before, pay for narrowboat experience days, or even go on a one or two day RYA Inland Waterways helmsmans course. Its got loads of very expert people who chip in but the only thing you have to watch is that sometimes the discussions veer (quickly) wildly off on a tangent, which is unhelpful, or occasionally descend into vitriolic arguments. When I started, I had always thought I would politely refuse offers that would involve either the Erica or myself appearing on video or print - although, to be absolutely truthful I really thought that there wasn't the remotest possibility of anyone being interested enough in the podcast to offer in the first place! And is Lorna your wife?I am long ago divorced and currently single (applications for the post of girlfriend are welcome ;-). 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