Boat sales on river thames, river severn, river wey. Grab yourself a foxes afloat mug or tshirt from our online store. A walker catches the dramatic moment a narrowboat sinks in a canal in a matter of seconds. Our bed was in the bow of the boat with gills in the stern. Boat tubes by sportsstuff, airhead, connelly and ho offers the lowest prices on ski tubes and inflatables. Now, we cruise the uk canal network, campaigning for mental health issues and recording our adventures on youtube. Apr 22, 2014 if your traditional stuffingboxtype stern gland was dripping too much last year and theres no travel left in the gland nut, its probably time to repack it. All sportstuff, airhead ho and connelly boating products and towables are available at the best prices.
He meets some of the people who used to carry goods along the route, and those who still live or work on the canal. Enter your email address to receive alerts when we have new listings available for wide berth canal boats for sale. Canal holiday tripadvisor 5 star canal holiday just back after a week on the shropshire union canal on board fjord countess from andersen narrowboats. Rivercraft tips for canal boats in summer, many canal and narrowboats venture onto the river severn. We sold our home, quit our jobs and had a brand new narrowboat built from scratch to live aboard and cruise the uk. The narrowboat experience living on a narrowboat in the uk. Imdb everywhere find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your watchlist and rate your favorite movies and tv shows on your phone or tablet. Jan 11, 2011 if you have a boat, you probably have some sort of inflatable tow toy. How to repack a stern gland stepbystep practical boat owner. Whilton marina is the biggest narrowboat brokerage in the uk. Isolated on our narrowboat we decide to make an essential journey for water before. Kalkomey is a private organization dedicated to providing boating education courses and certification and publishing boating safety education materials.
Launch day for silver fox launching our new canal narrowboat. Since 1999 boat tube has been the trusted leader in watersport inflatable tubes for boats. Weve finished building our new liveaboard canal narrowboat and its time to. We sold our home and built a brand new canal narrowboat that we live aboard and travel the uk canal network as continuous.
You dont need to be an expert to hire a canal boat and each year around one fifth of. Video blogs of a narrowboat search results youtube. If you have any that you feel we should consider including, please feel free to send your ideas using our contact form. Please show your love and support by subscribing to our narrowboat channel. Sure, the thought of sitting on a peaceful canal bank on a warm summer evening, gin an tonic in hand hand, without a care in the world is appealing, but is life afloat really like that. Narrowboat life answers all the questions weve wanted to ask about the ins and outs of liveaboard life on the inland waterways. Canal videos the uk canal system provides a wide and varied collection of backdrops. Free boat stock video footage licensed under creative commons, open source, and more. Living on a narrowboat all year round narrowboatinfo. Plane landing videos top 10 craziest plane landings. Download the canal and river trusts skippers guide to the ribble link here. Narrowboat video gallery canal boat holidays uk hire. This narrowboat adventure is creating narrowboat life. After getting whipped and tossed and bounced on a bunch of different tubes, my pals and i narrowed down our picks to a half.
Youtube waterways videos found by andersen boats page 1. That said, some scary landings are actually great examples of. After recreating the 1979 hire boat holiday which took us to the ashby canal, we decided to head to the black country boating festival. Everything you need to know about living on a narrowboat. Grab yourself a foxes afloat mug or a choice of quality branded items on our online store at. They can be crewed by experienced inland canal boaters or newbie holiday makers you may notice little difference if either is on a major river for the first time. Were running out of diesel, coal, and water so we need to move narrowboat silver fox during the lockdown to the nearest marina for supplies.
There are 103 videos about narrowboats on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Shocking video shows canal narrowboat sinking in just 25. The vessel was on the kennet and avon canal in whitley, berkshire, when it was suddenly swallowed up by th. Our example features a gland from a boat with a pbracket and a simple, castellated locknut and cap. Starting out at the gas street basin in birmingham, the cameras follow dover through glorious english countryside as she travels 126 miles and traverses 178 locks. Landing a plane is a tricky proposition under the best of circumstances. Starting out at the gas street basin in birmingham, the cameras follow dover through glorious english countryside as she travels 126 miles and. Join us for a day in the life aboard our 30ft narrowboat bertha. This is a very quick video to introduce cruising the cut, a video blog on youtube by a man who quit his job and sold his house to live on a narrowboat on the canals of england and wales. All of them should be active, although some people post more than others and some havent been posted to in years. I do actually have an unprocessed set from erm about 3 years ago which includes a near miss with a british waterways canal river trust boat which proves you can do an emergency stop with a. How to install and watch tv on a canal narrowboat youtube. Jul 23, 2017 im gonna run down my top 10 boat tubers narrowboating youtube channels. But if your favorite tube is leaking or showing its age, this might be a good time to shop for a replacement, as there are some exciting new rides on the market.
We have selected a few youtube videos that we think you would like to see. The book is filled with beautiful, enthralling photography of the waterways themselves, the narrowboats that occupy them and, most importantly, every nook and cranny of their insides. How i came to be buying a narrowboat july 23, 2015 october 19, 2016 heres my first video blog, describing how i came to be in the market for a narrowboat on which to cruise the uks canal network and hopefully take life easy for a bit. We were moored opposite trinity marina, hinkley which is located on the ashby canal.
Choice of boats always a large selection of boats available to view in one convenient central location, reducing the need to travel. Having restored his narrowboat dover, alan herd travels in it from birmingham to london along the grand union canal. If you dont have acrobat reader already, download the free reader here. But, before you rush out and buy one, or give up a land base to live on one, ive tried to outline below some of the quirks of a life afloat all year round, and in particular,some things to consider. Here we talk about the process of actually coming up with a name for our boat. Can living on a narrowboat be a cost effective alternative to life on dry land.
The volume can be set to low as background music or much louder for a disco dance. Watch travels by narrowboat one man, one boat, one life online. Tune in to view life on the waterways with black prince holidays and watch our latest canal boat videos. Subscribe to our weekly vlogs and follow our journey as the foxes get afloat. Bickerstaffe boat company bickerboats buying a narrow boat made easy rya. Narrowboat swept away on a flood tide, almost causing a boating disaster. Arent there any budding amateur cameramen out there to show ev. How i came to be buying a narrowboat cruising the cut. Grab yourself a foxes afloat mug or a print from our gallery on our.
Narroboat blogs below is a list of 46 narrowboat blogs. Our first 100 days afloat aboard the nutshell narrowboat part 1. You can have your own space on the site where you can create your own blog. Weve been in the business since 1971 and our team has helped thousands of buyers realise their dream when buying a narrowboat. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comic con sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Boattube website walkaround videos and photo highlights from the biggest boat show in usa and canada. Boattube walkaround videos and photo coverage from the biggest boat shows in europe, usa and canada 2015 toronto boat show. Boat boating safety videos difference between standon and giveway vessels. Not only was this to be our first festival, it was also our first time trading from the boat. The narrowboater can find themselves in a built up urban environment one minute and then, rounding a bend in the canal, very quickly find that the canal takes on a much more rural and bucolic nature. There are so many wonderful channels about narrow boating this is a play list of narrow boating videos. Footage shows the chinese fishing boat ramming into japanese vessels, putting the onus now on tokyo to respond.
After uploading our last little film to youtube, i have noticed there are loads of films of the inland waterways but most have only had hits into the 100s not the thousands or tens of thousands. Erie canal video gallery below are some videos of erie canal. I needed a drink so pulling on my jeans and trainers i made my way into the sitting and kitchen area in the middle of the boat. Grab yourself a foxes afloat mug or a choice of quality branded items on our. Lifes been busy and it seems i havent posted a video in a while in fact as ive got several unprocessed journeys i havent bothered capturing recent trips out, but ive missed doing them, so as i had a few spare days, decided to process another. Last winter was a breeze but this winter has been much harder. Alan herd restores historic working narrowboat dover from a rusting hulk to a prize winning boat. So when boating life asked me to make a wish list of new tubes and then go out and ride them all, i was all over it. This involved passing through a total of 51 narrow locks, of which 28 need to be completed in a single day due to lack of mooring opportunities. Grab yourself a foxes afloat mug or tshirt from our online store at. In the first narrowboat series alan herd restored historic dover and now he takes it from birmingham to its old home base in brentford.
The videos range from how to start a narrowboat to overplating a narrowboat. Im 12 years old, and my buddies and i go tubing whenever we can get my dad to drive the boat. The internal fitout of our new narrowboat, silver fox, is almost complete. This is hosted every year on the dudley no 2 canal in netherton. Whilton marinas youtube videos have been created to help you learn all about narrowboat and how to use them. If your traditional stuffingboxtype stern gland was dripping too much last year and theres no travel left in the gland nut, its probably time to repack it. I know they must seem ridiculously long for such a short boat, but the little boat has a 40 beam. I should know, because i recently had the chance to try some of the best new tubes you can buy. Black rose is a spacious one owner boat delivered in 2017, serviced in 2018 and blacked with a full. What length for youtube saturday, april 17th, 2010. This narrowboat adventure is creating narrowboat life videos. Once our gas heaters on, though, the boat heats up really quickly.
In 2019 we sold our home, gave up our jobs and built our new home, a 57foot canal narrowboat. The chinese boat then goes on to ram a second japanese ship. Adventures in zero gravity the unpredictable escapades. This is a brand new section for those of you who currently own your own narrowboat or if you are in the process of buying one. A dealer that is dedicated to service and with a good reputation among fellow wakeboarders on the lake is more likely to provide positive buying and ownership experiences for you than a dealer four counties over with no rep on your home waters. Narrow boat follows alan through the transformation process and then on to the iwa national boat show in a bid to win first prize for his efforts. We had to pass through hers to get on deck to operate the boats controls.
We run two successful youtube channels the narrowboat experience and art by annamarie. Alan herd takes his narrow boat dover on an epic and nostalgic journey down the length of the grand union canal from birmingham to london, where dover was originally based. I have been enjoying my time out afloat but have not been doing much photoforvideo capture, so there has been an absence of my videos for ooo too long. During the coronavirus lockdown we are currently closed to the general public. In this vlog as we explore britain by narrowboat, we. We post videos on the narrowboat experience once a week these can be anything from renovations or boat maintenance to cruising the canal or exploring areas we visit. I have edited the 10 part series into 3 parts, with the random filler short features on other.
All sorts of romantic notions are conjured up by those four words. My name is jasmin and i make videos about narrow boating for my channel this narrowboat adventure. Living on a boat or more specifically, living on a narrowboat. The journey from here to windmill end junction on the dudley no 2 canal is approximately 50 miles. Tingdene boat sales new and used motorboats for rivers, canals, sea. Narrowboat afloat grand union canal birmingham to london alan herd part 22 duration. Whilst living on a widebeam canal barge, we also sing, do photography, teach photoshop, create music, read scripture and love comedy. Grab yourself a foxes afloat mug or a print from our gallery on our online store at. There is no better way to experience this beautiful area than aboard one of our modern, spacious houseboats. Buying a narrowboat part one the long slog to a life afloat. Narrow boat afloat alan herd returns in narrow boat afloat, travelling the grand union canal from the gas street basin birmingham down to bulls bridge then london, visiting places of historical and. Download over 64 narrow boats royalty free stock video footage, motion backgrounds, and after effects templates and more.
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