exactly which part of the canal network is this please? ♥

Nope, please give me an old Gardiner engine with oily bits that I have a chance of understanding!

Oh, to have that amount of energy and enthusiasm again. She puts on the overalls and gets down to the work. Respect 🤘

What is a canal wife ?

The woman who demanded £8 is legit. Well known in Cookham. Humourless.

Missed those David!!!! Tks

To make twiggy more quiet and controllable i suggest a newer larger 4-stroke outboard from maybe honda

I do love these canal cruises but to make the boat more controllable and quiter i advice a newer slightly larger 4-stroke outboard

Well thought out ❤

Very late (me). Was out of town with a sibling I see twice in a decade, if we are lucky. Saved this until we returned from the cool of San Luis Obispo. Fantastic video and it is amazing to see a tiller that appears to be about as long as a 2 Meter man’s forearm turn your boat on a dime! Size is relative on the small screen of a phone and there was no one to compare it to, standing near so I could be as wrong as I usually am. How long is your boat? I had forgotten about the crane and the cage and the precision of the operator sliding it right over Twiggy. This was entertaining! The boat handled the river just fine. One hopes you will find a decent Honda replacement for just a few dimes, or less. Thank you for taking us along on this adventure!

The first boat is gorgeous. The square sterns on the Collingwood’s are horrible

Nautical semantics: The “tillery thing” is a rudder, and the ‘cap thing on the engine” is the cowl.

Marmite: Mom (loved it), all her kids (hated it) To get a surprise and laugh from friends, we'd tell them it smells great...

Doesn't a maximum of 'half the maximum' regress to nonsense?

The yellow board looks like 5mm thick polypropylene sheet typically used for making signage. Sign makers/vinyl printers make have an offcut they could donate 😊

I had almost forgotten how much work it was to watch you operate locks solo!

The hull looks great. The interior is well designed, but the surface materials don’t look very durable. They would be better off abandoning the mismatched wood, pressboard and thin laminate filler panels. Instead use reinforced HDPE. You can still use wood in areas, but use quality pieces.

A boat for smurfs with deep pockets 🙄🙄🤦‍♂🤦‍♂👎👎👎👎

How do you know it's nothing? Maybe all those velctro bits are holding the boat together afterall! I'm not a boat enginner so I wouldn't mess with the structural parts like the velctro tape!

You are soooooo English in an old fashioned way. Nothing wrong with that!

I know lots do it, but 12 hours on one of these in tidal estuary fills me with fear. Any issues and youll sink like a stone

Beautiful boat, nice people, and big bucks but probably worth it! Some oligarch type will buy it.

Not even a year yet, and he's already losing it, lol

I wish you use a real map in the future.

al my God can't run out of cheese

This looks too much like a cave. Where I come from, caves=voluntarily going to die in a confusing manner in which you’ll likely never be recovered or rescued (that promise is signed in several different mens blood). So, nope. Well, not anymore for me.

Captain David it was good to see you and Twiggy back on the open seas. Relatively speaking of course ⛵👍🏾🏆. Stay safe and best regards.

If you're feeling as though the world is a bit heavy going, or maybe you have restricted your access to other people out of simply habit, or perhaps illness has overtaken your life being part of a team or part of a community is always the self restoration you need. Join a local sports team, your local cricket team, or bowls club, a running team or rounders might be your thing, even if you're very old you can go on country walks with various clubs, but one things that's for sure be part of something instead of festering, you'll never regret it. Lovely video with a perfect message.

Hull's a bit manky, should clean nicely tho. Look forward to your progress updates, cheers

From what I remember of the boat's previous adventures the engine was a replacement for a stolen one and was pretty solid. I think the previous owner may have made the engine cover look less attractive to thieves...

IWA should take over from CRT - they seem to know more about how to run a canal than the former private trains CEO does

Just a short journey down the river, but nice to see a boat-view video again. Even had some swans!! Looking forward to seeing how the repairs and changes on Twiggy go too!

Brilliant 👏👏👏

I put like because its yellow 🎉

Time to watch every single video all over again

05:25 what a lovely house 🏡

What is the purpose of the protruding oval grey-ish thing on the hull ?

15:55 - The town of "Goring" and the name of that boat. Subliminal messages of Wilde's An Ideal Husband!

must have been a paint shortage back then, those swing bridges need a spruce up

Its usually easier to pull 2-3 times slowly without force to "prep" the motor and then with full force. Human tend to to be nervous and pull while the rope is not yet fully inside. As you are moored there is no need to rush. I would recommend to change your steering cable, looks older than clutch and throttle. Remeber you dont have a rudder.

Your candidness is admirable. At times, we all have those ‘introverted paradox’ conundrums about different aspects of our lives. Robbie Cummings uses “pub of the week’ to get in his socialising, so that is one way to do it….though the pubs he likes (jukeboxes, pool, skittles!!!, loud ‘musicians”) would not do anything for me. Mind you, his relationship difficulties, because of his narrowboat lifestyle come out in the wash too. In the end, you have to do what you think is right for yourself.

I got my boat in September everytime we’ve gone out we’ve had a nightmare with the weather went out to sea fishing last weekend couldn’t even get a rod in the water and ended up soaked from waves. Just want a sunny no windy weekend to actually get my moneys worth at this rate it’ll be up for sale

Lift out didn’t include a hull jet wash? Pfffff

Lifted out with a crane and then put on a trailer? Seriously wtf ! You certainly know how to waste money or have it taken from you rather stupidly. You're a con mans dream

Love the mention of the Twitter comment - "why are you spending that much on lifting the boat? If you'd already spent ten times that on equipment you could've done it much cheaper!"

No wonder it operates like a corical boat, it appears to have no keel at all. Please Please put a keel on it so it will steer predictably! Ronn

Why did you leave the outboard propeller in the water? Or is there no mechanism to allow the outboard to swivel on the transom?

: ) ... beautiful stonework around those locks !!

I had a 4 ft barge built by Liverpool Boats in 1987 at Brunswick Dock before that area was gentrified. Did they morph into Aintree Boats?

What a lovely smart person she could run this country not joking common sense is rare as hens teeth to day ❤❤❤❤❤❤