I can't thank you enough David for your series of videos. I have lived in Australia for the past 57 years but most of my childhood was spent in Middlewich and I remember the horse drawn narrow-boats during the 1940's, diesel was just coming to the fore. I started my apprenticeship as a boilermaker at Winnington ICI just across the river from the Anderton boat lift. Before leaving for Australia I lived in Wimboldsley just a couple of fields from the Middlewich arm of the Shropshire Union canal. Than you so much for enabling me to relive such fond memories.

After a day at the Division of Motor Vehicles, I came home to find this video. Thank You....Just what I needed. Your videos are giving me great ideas for my next trip to the UK!!! Thumbs up to your haberdasher!!

I love that you give shout outs to every boattuber you see

Thanks David, really good to see footage of where I was cruising about a year ago, before I started vlogging of course. Middlewich is quite safe for mooring, the only trouble I had was with gangs of youths playing Pokemon Go!!

It is good to see that you were honest enough to include your little bump.

A masked youth on a bike. I seem to see him everywhere nowadays. For a lout he sure is busy. Great vid again.

I've been watching your videos for last couple weeks and I've got to say they're awesome , thank you

as always it is interesting riding with you.

Your dress is the other thing that makes you more down to earth. Things like the Sun Screen, Fleece, Hat ETC. You represent the better side of the viewers impression of Narrowboat life. The other down to earth is you also include you mistakes which makes you much more believable and I might add enjoyable. Thanks Stay Safe

...and a very tranquil vlog too CTC, thank you very much for another ultra professional presentation

Nobody can Film Narrowboat Videos this Quality,Absolutely Mavellous x

Another lovely vlog. Having watched all of yours and thoroughly enjoying, them, I've also been devouring other narrowboat youtuber vlogs, such as London Boat Girl, Robbie Cumming, and The Narrowboat Experience, as well as a few others. You have turned me into an addict. Looking forward to next weeks masterpiece.

Somehow I had missed this vlog while binging on them. Lucky find and delightful as usual. Thank you for making them.

I've kind of binged myself on your videos, they put most of whats on daytime television to shame. It's funny a few months ago I'd have never given narrow boating a second glance, though you're clearly far away from it now, I can say the lock in Peterborough would give you a bit of a scare, it being on the river nene, it's right next door to a weir/waterfall. Though I don't recommend mooring along it at the weekends, not if you don't like the noises of steam trains trundling past your boat. Always been a railway man myself, always will be. But I can certainly see the leisure and fun there is in narrow boating. Thumbs up!

A pleasant journey. Thanks for taking us along. The shops and facilities in town looked very inviting. Glad to see that you got your boat free from being stuck. No Tunnels is a blessing. Happy Camping

Thanks once again, David for an entertaining episode. 😃👍👏👏👏

The view you shot in the video is so therapeutic to watch. It's so calm I'm seriously considering to rent a boat and cruise for months! ❤️

Wikipedia is wonderful. "The earliest known way of producing salt was of course in shallow pans on the sea-shore, at the bottom of a shoal bay, called in Norse and Early English a wick or wich". The inland salt areas were, most likely, bay's that became dried up. Great learning David. Thanks for the vid.

Trent and Mersey is my local canal. I enjoy all your vlogs but especially the ones in this area. The Harecastle tunnel one you did was really interesting as I've wanted to go through there for years and never have so far

right in the middle of Middlewich. Perfect!

Rain on the canals looks beautiful

I like the association to salt and Wich, you learn something new every day, thank you for another great vlog.

Frankly speaking you are the best narrator. among other narrowboat vlogers. English is very clean.

I’m impressed at the amount of locks your undertaking during this trip

Today, while visiting family, I sat in a coffee shop (yes, sorry, I digressed to coffee from tea today) and looked out over a river while a "requisite" pair of swans reminded me that I must check once home for a new episode of CtC. I was not disappointed. P.S. Another soul now regularly watches you cruise your cut on a regular basis. I must be the evangelist of vicarious narrow-boating by now.

This video was a nice and relaxing break on the otherwise busy Canada Day. Thank you once again.

AQUEDUUUCT!!! I adore them!

Okay I can answer this one I am 12 miles west of Detroit Michigan USA any English town with witch in the name was a Roman town at one time that collected salt ding ding ding we have a winner great Channel brother thank you for letting me share in your adventure

Very nice series. I am watching them all. Love to see more of after you stop for the day and how life in the boat is.

a reasonably peaceful ride....thanks, David😏👍

Yet another wonderful video with beautiful scenery. Thank you.

Well, you certainly have me wanting fish and chips, and with no good option. Thanks for the update. I always enjoy. FWIW, I vote for not cluttering the canals (or skies) with any sort of RC toy. You do NOT need to include drone video in order to hold my interest.

After a five mile 'wander' along most of Limehouse Cut and a chunk of the Regents Canal this evening this is just what I needed. Nice to see someone moving even if it is 'up north' ;) Enjoyed the video as always and look forward to the next one.

Thanks for the reply David, I of course look forward to living vicariously through your experiences on the next adventure heading in that direction , have fun, be safe!!!

I have enjoyed your videos very much, thanks for your work. The day after my lottery win gets up, I shall return triumphant to my homeland and go narrow boat shopping, looks like a marvelous way to spend a year or three.

Don't worry about the bottom plate. If that is the only time it contacts terra firma in your trip you will have got off lightly. With 'blocked' selfish moorings or even at boatyards it is permissable to moor alongside another boat of similar length to gain bank access. Boatyards don't mind if you are shopping there and selfish moorers hardly object as long as you are 'gentle'. Enjoying your trip more now as you come into my 'home' territory.

There are good days and bad days on a narrow boat this day was a lucky day. my heart sank as you were stuck on the lip. a well deserved cuppa and fish & chips after a day like that :)

You are getting better and better at making my wife and I want to join the Narrowboat life David.... Great job...

Nice one David. I've just been to Aintree to check on the slow progress to my boat. They are looking forward to a visit from you some time but please don't go and distract them until they finish mine!

Enjoyable as always ...thank you.

Thanks for another fun-filled, exciting, and adventurous trip through the magical mystery tour...😊👌 Enjoy your slumber; sweet dreams

I thoroughly enjoyed watching you trip up through SOT and onwards. I wish I was cruising the cut myself, sadly it will only ever be a dream for me so thank you for sharing the experience with me. All the best.

I always love your vlogs! Thanks for letting us join you on your journeys!

Love the vlog David, its good to see just how a solo operator manages with all the locks and other obsticals above and below the water.

Lovely video! I have noticed that a lot of British murder mysteries are set around canals and locks - your commentary has reinforced that mysterious air! :)

I enjoyed the different scenery, love your videos, always entertaining. Thank you.

Thanks again David another great Vlog. Really look forward to them so keep them coming..

best holiday ever i had on the canals, roll on September when i will be sailing aboard Odessey once again! loving your short films and always look forward to the next!

Nice vlog,thanks 👏👏😁👍

That 90 deg left turn must be an even bigger problem for longer boats. Another CTC classic vlog.

Another great video, and I do look forward to your videos...

If there's one thing I still remember most about my time spent in the UK as a lad it was the fish and chips. I declare I can still remember the taste. I believe they were cooked in real lard or some such in the early 70's and the flavor is probably not the same now but close enough to bring tears to my eyes had I the chance to go over and try them again. The closest we have here in the US is a chain called Cap't D's. I try the fish and chips offered everywhere here I can find but the Cap't has the closest to the real thing. Ah, the good ol' days.

Hi, I just wanted to let you know you have me hooked on narrow boats. I’ve found your videos on Amazon and those are great also. I’ve actually started looking at narrow boat hotel cruises. Looking forward to the rest of your vlogs.

At last! You’re coming to my neck of the woods - Northwich!

Next up: Triffids in Telford :). Another very enjoyable episode David, thank you. Love Wyndham BTW.

Good flog. I read all johns books as a child, nice to be reminded of him

David. So here I am, a fan of your vlogs, waiting last week on the Middlewich branch of the Shropshire Union for you to pass by as per you plans on Vlog No. 75 (so I can wave or even have a cuppa with you) only to find from your last vlog that you have either missed the turning at Middlewich branch or you have changed your plans and gone straight up the Trent and Mersey. I guess from your organised personality and lifestyle it is the latter or I have missed somewhere along the vlogs that you have changed you route. Perhaps Anderson Boat Lift was too good an engineering marvel to miss, you being so close. Ah well..Keep up the good work.

Dank U voor deze video :-) 👍

Love it as always!!!

I feel this show is on the verge of big success, both home and world wide. When I said it the first time, about how the next step is big TV production, and a second or third boat for the TV crew and cooks and lock help. I did not read that you were a previous television worker. I just sensed a level of professionalism. I compared this to "Travels in Europe with Rick Steves" with very much respect. And instantly detected the talent. You are like the Rick Steves of the British canals. Very good at capturing the mechanics of the system like the piston of the boat lift, and the gates to the lift. Very general interest; a lot of people will like this. Very well produced. Books are due for you, travel guides, pubs will give you free food for the exposure (this has local appeal popularity as well as world wide potential for tourism from you directly) your own brand of Narrowboat? signed windlass ess of special branded type. the sky is the limit, i truly feel. You are very intelligent and funny. and I love all the British terms to try and solve, and you give us americans some insight somtimes. So proper and british to watch as well. americans love classic british shows, very charming and great camera presence. really good. stuff. a big hit. cant stop watching.,

Another great vid, David.🇦🇺👍🍷

Excellent as usual David :) It's amazing how much of that part of the system around Middlewich I remember even though I haven't been on it for over 20 years!

kickin hat m8 =D live in the desert for awhile and you'll appreciate rainy days. It's why it's so green and lovely there :)

Maybe that's what the dry dock is for, emergency repairs from getting caught on the ledge! Haha

Great video, so have things been busier now that summer is here... looks crowded, but they are all parked, was this during the weekdays. Great work and thank you for taking me along for the ride!!! Cheers and, as always God bless

So there are ruffians about! Great video sir!

Great work I follow you and your explotes , Keep up the great work, waiting for your next vlog.Good sailing

Hey :) I just love your videos! They bringing me down after an exhausting day and let me dream to my next journeys :) Cheers from Germany, David

Love your blog. I live in Alaska, USA, and feel like I'm getting a tour of rural England. Seems very civilized and organized.

Just over the River Done, and those of us in California envy you that rain.

Lovely video again David. Know the area you are in very well as I was born and bred around here. You can't be far from the Weaver Navigation - perhaps we'll se it tomorrow.

Think ill have to take a trip down that stretch on my bike at the weekend now ive had a look at your video... once ive worked my way around the harecastle tunnel.

A 10mm base plate needs a lot of scratching to reduce its thickness. Don't worry and enjoy. Try sanding one back and you'll see how resilient steel plates are.

Nice one David.👍

Such cute cygnets!

I think this is the first one you have not started with "welcome to the Vlog".

great stuff, Stu.:-)

I know this part of the system so well and it was where our boat was built almost 30 years ago.

Great vlog as usual David

Another great video 😀👍 that chippy is definitely worth a visit next time

Great interesting video Cheers

Ahh, this steering problem explains the bow-thrusters you previously mentioned a while ago, available on some boats, it all makes sense now!!

At 3:30, fwiw, we'd moored here overnight on May 1st 1994. Burned into my memory because, as a Formula one racing fan, that was the day we heard that Senna had died. Fond and sad memories at the same time.

Handy mnemonic for landlubbers: "port" and "left" are the shorter words; "starboard" and "right" are the longer ones.

Tip top...! Thank you once again... Your lead-ins and lead offs (intro and "outro") are becoming cleaner and more refined... good work...

Another great vlog David, I have learned a lot from your videos and have duly subscribed. By the way - I saw you yesterday approaching Braunston just as I was leaving, I was on the little blue thirty footer. Gave you a wave. Starstruck!

Congratulations for passing the 18k subscribers, very impressed.

No two locks are the same it seems. Would certainly keep me on my toes! ... A wee story David.. This morning my phone pinged with a notification from KZfaq telling me there was a new CtC video uploaded. So I started moving toward the tv room as the family asked "where are you off to" (yes nosey types aren't they?) and I replied "narrowboat video time". They sighed. What do they know? I thought. Don't worry David, I can manage their rolling eyes and mocking grins. And thanks for another great vid. Always seem to be holding my breath when you don't get the mooring you originally planned. Suspenseful ;)

brilliant, as usual. ROD UK

Awesome video David,. it's a good thing to stay in shape . you ever know. when you are going get caught on something or get stuck in the mud . ..... Cheers David,.

Superb David, I have been waiting for someone to go through Middlewich, as this is where we used to rent our narrow boat (s) from Anderson boats just on the left there as you navigated that tricky left turn (I remember that one). It will be very interesting to see what the canal reveals in the opposite direction, as we always went the other way towards the town of wrenbury, Nantwhich and the likes. Middlewich is a nice English town as we had a chance to mingle with the locals after dark at the local watering hole, that being a pub called the Vault, thanks again and safe journey hi ho silver from Florida USA :).

Another lovely vlog David , but the comment you received about shooting at the motor cycle rider made me smile, I mean it would be ideal if you could blast his back wheel off with a 12 bore, but I feel a vlog about prison life would not be half as entertaining as cruising the cut! All the best to you!

Hello David! New subscriber here viewing from Oakley NorCal in the East Bay Area living along the Delta. I have as of today caught up on all of your videos and looking forward to number #100. Cheers and clear canals!

You did well to move on beyond Middlewich, in May we were moored by the playground and were attacked and a window smashed during daylight.

Nice one David yet another enjoyable and informative vlog. Funny how that pound seem to have lost a bit of water as there seemed to be a good flow of water coming in as seen from the your bow camera when turning left fo that last lock.

Wondeful as always! Thumbs up!! We enjoy the comment on your page as well... Good people here... : )

Another "nice" vlog. Nice and gentle. We did moor at the spot where you went shopping and there was a nasty industrial fridge thing behind that fence which kept me awake. Best moorings were just after the Big lock. Looking forward to your Anderton lift video.

David, after watching you on your trad stern in the wind and rain I started leaning more to semi trads or cruisers becuase of the pram hoods, that was until I saw this very neet set up. Unfortunately there is only the one photo of the hood up so I have no idea how easily and neety it folds however it is currenlty with ABNB so worth a look.

Yet again FAB Vlog. Middlewich is only up the Road from Us lol. Hopefully will bump into You one day but not as in hit Your Boat with Ours (When We Have One of Course) lol xxx

Interesting to see your 'small pound grounding'. I've been reading an old boater's guide to handling and the like (aimed at old working boats) in which it recommends not mooring on the landing before filling locks but rather to put the nose up to the gate and leave it there in the deeper water while you fill. I'd never thought of that problem before but they clearly knew what they were talking about. Glad you managed to re-float without too much bother!