"In the UK, allotments are small parcels of land rented to individuals usually for the purpose of growing food crops" (Had to look that up, so thought others might want to know too) :)

Glad u remarked about the rubbish. I have a car dash cam and i caught a guy littering so i gave the video to the council and they gave him a fine of $250. I hate people who litter.

At 3:22 the homeowner is a Top Gear fan! Can you imagine Stig drifting a narrowboat through the corners at a blistering 3 mph?

I’ve watched about 5 already, this man is so calming.

Oh, Joy ! Your Pooterish progress, and your noble, uplifting, indomitable profile at the tiller, your ability to make a substantial something out of what appears to be very little simply by your enthusiasm and being just you, (masked by a formidable professionalism of course), is so addictive. As I've said before, if it was anyone else, your toungue in cheek meanderings and pithy comments about what you encounter would be just that, a meander. I watched your rant about the cushions in the dinette the other day, (what a horrible euphemism the word "dinette" is), and your disbelief that the cushion woudn't fit to make a proper bed, your enraged spittle flecked lips, the totally justified falsetto voiced hysteria at the pointlessness of it all ,the furious anger at the intransigence of inanimate objects, oh, I laughed and then smiled broadly for at least an hour. If you took up knitting I would still watch. Thank you, thank you. FYI, I live a lot of the time in South East Asia. Here we also have canals, but they are called roads when it stops raining.

Flotsam and jetsam. Two of my favourite words 🙂 Not necessarily the definition of the word, but rather they’re simply fun words to say.

That's the first 40 episodes in two days. Thank you so much for life journey so far. A lovely film today, unfortunately showing the reality of rubbish dumping, graffiti dawbing and the selfishness of some boaters. Still, that's life isn't it. A better day tomorrow I hope. Thank you so much

Does it get any more British than this? "The wind is still a bit chilly but there is the distinct hint of Sun in the air." When I was eight years old I read Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day" -while living through a winter in Belgium. I feel your pain.

I'm alternating between your vlogs and old episodes of Frasier. They complement each other very well. I hope you feel suitably complimented by this. Great stuff! 😊

This is so much fun! Thanks for taking us along!

I stumbled onto episode 3 a few days ago, and am so glad I did. I’ve just now finished viewing all 40 and can barely wait for the next. The UK canal network is a treasure. You are so kind to share with us your adventure, and including both the highs and the lows.

I'm beginning to think you'll never get past that bridge in the opening title scene. Every episode, you just...can't...seem...to...get...past...

I heartily concur with your solution of applying the 'cat o' nine tails' to the vile problem of vandals David.

If I was on the canals I 'd obsess about picking up litter. I voluntarily tidy a stretch of nearby brook; it's a never-ending task. Nothing new, people have always littered, though plastic, consumerism and more people make it look worse. I didn't like to look at it on my walk so started to bag it. I see others doing it too.

1:32 love the little cat silhouette on the wall.

On one week's canal adventure we counted 13 footballs bobbing about at various points. Some looked new enough that we figured someone might still be looking for them. Others were relics of bygone days past. The other crap is just plain disgusting. I'm happy you survived Nuneaton.

+Cruisingthecut ... "When the apocalypse comes we'll all want to be in Nuneaton" ... has to be quote of the day!

Starting Location: Hawkesbury Junction: www.google.com/maps/@52.4574671,-1.4693654,374a,35y,304.01h/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en Junction with Ashby Canal: www.google.com/maps/@52.4902649,-1.4590386,288a,35y,10.97h/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en Entering Nuneaton: www.google.com/maps/@52.5049232,-1.4613334,830a,35y,10.97h/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en More Allotments!: www.google.com/maps/@52.5174022,-1.4753288,595a,35y,10.97h/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en Leaving Nuneaton: www.google.com/maps/@52.5269031,-1.4865953,247a,35y,10.97h/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en Ending Location: www.google.com/maps/@52.5357274,-1.4838618,414a,35y,10.97h/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Thanks for another great vlog. It was interesting and informative. Like most folks, I find litter and graffiti disgusting. I'm with you on the public flogging for the offenders. Wishing you well on your journey.

Can't believe the Bedworth canalside scrap yard is still there! Amazed at how little has changed in the 10 years since I boated around that area.

most people show only the same old view from the pyramids that make you believe its still in the middle of the desert. I love the fact you show us the good the bad and the ugly.

I have watched several of your videos and I must commend you in that yours are so much more entertaining than other narrowboat vids. I Love seeing the English countryside.

Nuneaton really does have some really pretty gardens and I love that they back to the canal

More averse to graffiti than trains I see! I've now made it through almost half of your vlogs. Although a bit out of order at first, I did go back and start with #1, and have now seen up to 40.

2009 and 2010 I was living sandwiched between 2 railway (double) lines with the train station 2 minutes away on foot. I loved it! Then again, I grew up around model railways and that sound always has and always will bring good feelings up in me. Even the cargo train with the old carriages which made the whole house shake a little and which were so loud that I had to pause if I was watching a movie.

The Ashby Canal is a delight, well worth a look next time you are passing. We were stoned by gangs of kids in Nuneaton !! I have just watched the full set of vlogs from the start and wondered why you didn't replace the sacrificial anodes while she was 'out'. They looked a bit tired. It's great to see so many familiar places as you cruise the cut. Keep it up.

By the looks of those allotments the apocalypse has already happened... The Stig was cool though :-)

Awwww those ducklings were so cute thanx for sharing with us.

You were the first narrowboat channel we watched, probably a couple of years ago now. We binge watched all your videos and we learnt so much. This was while you still had your narrowboat, and we continue to follow you. We've also watched lots of others, including Heidi. Her version of your visit to the pirate boat was hilarious. We also follow the nomadic crobot. Have you seen them? They hold you in high esteem. It would be great if you did a vlog with them. You remain one of our favourites, though, so much so that we are having a re binge session. You look so young! 😆 xx

Another gem. I'm not a grumpy guts but I do find the downside comments interesting, its easy to see and be told the good things but as a person considering a boating lifestyle i'm curious about things like the hassle of tying up in somewhere like you were advised against, keep them coming please.

I thought i was going to go through the weekend without my narrowboat fix, but then up pops another great vlog. I guess we get used to you showing us the great scenery, parts of this brings us back to earth. Cant wait for the next one, safe cruising.

3:22 The Stig.

Chapter 9 Lord of the Rings Two Towers chapter titled Flotsam and Jetsam. Really enjoy the videos. I keep them on most of the day at work (always letting the ads run so you can get that .000001 per view).

Always a pleasant surprise to see you've got another vlog up to watch, enjoy them much, you are really living the dream, , being in the US, it's very interesting to see a different way of life...Cheers

Enjoying your Vlog - keep the vids coming. Graffiti is such a blemish on our towns and cities. Even Banksy should confine it to his own walls :-).

Very enjoyable

I spy "The Stig" at 3:23

Waterpoints. I like that people were queuing up for the same water point, only to find an empty one around the corner. That sounds like something humans would do.

Yay! I just discovered you have a Patreon, so I contributed a wee bit. Double Yay - I bought two "I Like Cruising the Cut" tall mugs. :D I'd also buy a t-shirt or pretty much anything actually to support Cruising The Cut!

Your getting quite good at this boating lark

"Some say that to relax from going very fast he watches narrowboats go very slow, he is called, The Stig!" That place for the bench by the way looks like a filled in former canal arm. Another restoration project in waiting maybe?

Looked lovely, missing you at Yelvertoft!

its so sad the way some people throw trash in the canal ...thanks for sharing

Love your videos keep it up

Re your burst water hose, Ill pass something on I saw on someone else video a few weeks back (can't recall who, sorry). Anyways, that style of water hose, when you coil it back up after use you can have water trapped inside. I the temperature gets low enough, that can freeze and burst the hose. You only find out the next time you use it. The guy who's blog it was suggested getting a hose that works similar to a fireman hose, flat when empty. My dad had one for his garden. They come on a spool and when you're done, rewinding it on the spool not only keeps it tidy, it also forces out any trapped water. They come with the usual hose connections fitted. Maybe not to replace a good hose you already have but when you actually need to replace one.

It's always advantageous for a man to have a longer hose. I'm looking for one too!Thanks for the vlog.Ken

It is obvious that you have a sweet tooth. Even when you do stop and visit a pub (of all the interesting ones you pass by), you will have some obscene sweet pudding or pastry?! I always anticipate hearing about a jolly good pie & gravy sloshed down with a pint!

Thanks..enjoyed it ...LOL the Manikin garden, was that plastic Easter eggs next to the swan....great narration...

3:22 "all we know is he's called The Stig"

Loved the comparison to the Star Wars movie ;) Awesome video :)

I love the black cat and flowers painted on the bridge at 1:35.

Very familiar territory to me !! As I mentioned, I stayed in Nuneaton for 6 years when I was working away, only about a mile or so from the canal, so i did occasionally take the MTB along the footpath and do a loop round Nuneaton on the canal, go to the Coventry basin or take the Ashby canal up to Hinckley (where there's the canal side KFC !!) I don't think Nuneaton is THAT bad !! It's a bit dull but I never witnessed much in the 6 years I was there. I didn't even like Nuneaton much but looking back at it I grew fond of the situation I was in. Quite odd really. I was in a house share with a local-lass, so I really did get the "low down" on Nuneaton life. I'll hopefully visit that region again this summer and catch up with some friends.

The poor nun :D - Damn cannibals! :D (SCNR...my dad's word-jokes are contagious it seems)

Appreciated the Star Wars trash compactor reference -- good job you didn't encounter a be-tentacled monster. As for that boatyard, must be cheap to moor there because why else would you bother! Hope the Bank Holiday hail wasn't too loud on your steel roof. Thanks for sharing.

well we watched following your hard work, as always enjoyable and at times funny, thanks.

Nice bit of graffiti at 1:33. Thanks for another brilliant vlog. Happy travelling.

people seem to take great things for granted... I wish we had a canal system here in the states

I'm in the U.S. but I'm also a KZfaq subscriber to John Rogers and his many years of walks around London neighborhoods and the many brooks and rivers that feed into the Thames. As a result, I was already familiar with allotments and what they are (03:55). Your "international viewers" might not know that it's a British English term (full form: "allotment garden") which corresponds to what we in North America call a community garden.

You sent past us at the 2 1/2 minute mark ,we have our boat Grace at the end of the garden. It's a shame about the crap in the canal, normally we do litter runs either on our boat or on the Hargreaves trip boat, which is moored by Boot wharf and seems to survive moori g in Nuneaton

I'm fairly sure that the bench in a weird spot at 4.45 is at Red Deeps, used by George Elliot in Mill on the Floss

Nutty as a fruitcake, bless you

that was a well done video

Graffiti vandals can be discouraged by getting a firm grasp of them and spraying their heads with an interesting paint spray colour...

i have no idea why i like this

I would have the little devils pilloried for sure, on the spot. floggings for the habituates, maybe ?

'Oh my, there's bodies everywhere, but at least there are None Eaten' ... 'Are we not amused?'...

well david it is then,great vid,id say the closed to canel,is the erie,nothing that criss crosses the uk like you have,,,paul

Great turning ability, you obviously know what you are doing.

Was that The Stig?!

My great-grandfather on my mother's side was born in Nuneaton and emigrated to Petrolia, Ontario in 1862, when he was 10 years old. I understand there are still some several-times-removed cousins in that area....

Hired a boat in Rugby a few years back and went up to Coventry canal and then on to Ashby canal. Your vlogs brought back pleasant memories. There were some of the 'bored' kids drinking lager at the entrance to Ashby canal and they were quite aggressive. Was worried that they might jump aboard as entrance is very narrow (an old stop lock). All was well though and Ashby canal is to be recommended. Wonderfully peaceful trip but canal is shallow in places.

Well fancy that David I've just watched CHG in the same place.

One of the houses in Nuneaton looks like 4 Privet Drive from Harry Potter!

Floggings too good for them :)

Come down the Birmingham & Fazeley, I walk along it daily. Very nice.

Every time you fill you water tank, you seem to lug the entire hose reel out to the tap and then roll the hose back to your tank. Can I suggest that you do it the opposite way? Leave the reel in the boat, shove the end bit that you normally attach to the tap into the tank then unreel the hose and attach the opposite end to the tap? I'm sure that would be easier. Probably no need for the obligatory sack of coal.

Sounds like Nuneaton is ready for Brexit with those allotments.

Best not stop in Nuneaton ... I'm only willing to drive through it at speed after having checked my tyres, oil and fuel levels for good measure. It's probably not all that bad these days, no worse than many places (Walsall comes to mind). I have to agree with the public flogging idea mind! Parents should be encouraged to do the clean up and I'm sure the flogging would be doubled at home!

The rubbish sure does take away the splendor of the canal but on a few miles and all looks great again, some of those back yards look lovely though.

Haha Nuneaton-.civilised 😂😂 I'm originally from there . My. Mum had a narrow boat moored at starline. It's like dodge the trolleys and stolen mopeds in the cut

We have collapsible hoses , we have two 100 yard hose.

I believe the correct spelling is Cygnet.

The motorcycle mannequin. Look like characters from Doctor Who

Well I would have loved to have seen the polytunnel at the bottom of Tellytubby hill because I have a thing for polytunnels and a floating polytunnel would have rocked my world.

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Do you have canal clean up Events? I have been participating for many years in one of two local river (the Clackamas or the Willamette) clean ups. We have non profit groups here called Riverkeepers that organize the volunteers and bins to sort what we pick up. You get a rather nice free T shirt for a days work. I also pick up trash regularly when I walk my dog. I will spare you my rant on dog poo bags !

At Nuneaton they lure canalsmen into the allotments with promises of water points and firm moorings and then sacrifice them in blood ritual to the Lovecraftian canal god Vagon, who is a sort of second cousin removed by marriage of Lovecraftian sea god Dagon.

The guy that owns the land with the random mannequins, has a scrap yard at the back of what you can see. He is a bit extravagant lol. As for the vandalism it's not a reflection of the town I can assure you 😕

Have decided to call you David, as you look like one...can't be doing with not being able to call you something. Love your vlogs...I just hope I can do it one day. You could also be a Trevor......or a Bernard.....will decide in due course 😃

Here be Dragons? More like, Here be Chavs :P

I'd be interested to see a sort of demonstration of mooring on various different kinds of banks. What advantage does the metal edging provide, for example? Are there special thingies you can use to help you get a grip on a soggy bank? How many ropes do you need? What length are they? Do you carefully coil them after use or just dump them in the gas locker or something? What kind of knots do you use? Is nylon rope better or worse than hemp? Stuff like that.

I would love to have a narrow boat but it looks like everybody already has one. I assume you'll eventually reach some quiet country side.

Another incredibly great episode. Do you ever pickup floating trash David? I carry a grabber with me while I'm hiking and pick up litter. Maybe you could have a fish net and grab floating litter.

I think there is some relationship between people who litter and lack of self-esteem.

FYI, theres a metal band from the 80's called Flotsam and Jetsam...Just saying

I love this Chanel its so calm. Also where is the best place for me to buy a narrow boat?

I see I have a lot of videos to watch before I am caught up. So I had better get back to watching the vids or I'll never get caught up. I do enjoy your sense of humor at the most mundane things like graffiti. Some of it shows a good bit of talent but most of it should have been left in the artist head.👍

Here I am! KZfaq for some reason sometimes jumps forward two or three videos, when you just pressed "next" button. It turned out to be a quest - do not miss anything. Anyway, hallo from Ukraine 29 aug '21!

Feeling sad to see the junk in the water.

Excellent again. Now you passed some areas with some reputation for "this and that" but how does a narrow boat perform a 'quick get-a-way' ?