A documentary series following former UK television news reporter David Johns who quit his job, sold his house, bought a live-aboard narrowboat, and films his travels on the historic British canals. You make great stuff. I have never visited your part of the world and had no idea that cruising the canals was taking place. That said many boaters disagree entirely with these arguents and do paint the baseplate how often is down to their enthusiasm for the task and / or the depth of their wallet. We love the insight into your amazing lifestyle please give us something to look forward to! We now own a boat in the Midlands but Covid19 prevents us from using it properly due to quarantine, etc. I believe you truly Shine in your documentary videos, they are of excellent quality, super-interesting, and most informative. Life is better when it goes by slow and you can enjoy it worts and all. Camera wont pick anything up. Enjoyed your informative and sometimes witty scripts and your video quality is excellent. David, Cheers. It was rest for the mind in this crazy 2020 year. I have enjoyed listening to David Johns as he experienced his travels of the a English canals and becoming adept maneuvering his narrow boat. I hope you enjoy your next project, whatever it might be! There were narrated cruising videos, informational videos about buying and maintaining a narrowboat and even some documentary style videos (Coal Finger is a great example, watch it below if you havent already!). A variety of sources: rain, rivers, boreholes, reservoirs. DOCUMENTARY; The real-life adventures of a man who quit his job, sold his house and went to spend his days cruising gently along the historic canals of Great Britain at 3mph If you are like me and enjoy watching a range of narrowboat or canal boat based Youtubers, you may have been an avid watcher of a channel called Cruising the Cut. This last year has been a pain for us all and must be even more lonely when youre a single handler. "Best Of Cruising the Cut" Play all 187. Just a matter of personal preference.You can also use apps or online guides such as canalplan.org.uk (ideal for route planning rather than a map) or opencanalmap which has all the CRT facilities marked etc albeit in a rather tiny font that you cant seem to enlarge. Cheers, mate. Jill, Your email address will not be published. The name must be displayed on the side of the boat as well, but its on the licence so as long as youre showing that youre probably OK.The boat name does not have to be unique. What's your name and what's your background? David and Chris Thank you for your dedication over the years, and as you are the Grandfarther of this media, well be counting the days until you find your mojo and publish again. The cruising the cut david johns Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port Friedkin & # x27 ; re on a.. Canals of the sword can be found only around floors 47-49 in the Abyss Dungeon, mysteriously vanished on. Firstly, its unlikely a cordless drill would have sufficient power; a lot of the mechanisms can be very stiff indeed hence needing a decent length of handle on the windlass to get the appropriate leverage. Youll see from my most recent videos that I have indeed interviewed lock volunteers and am now making interview-based items, which I hope you will continue to enjoy. A bygone age: horse-drawn narrowboat on the Welsh canals. Your planned break is well earned and a change of direction will no doubt be beneficial and a refresh for you ( I wouldnt mind being able to do something of the sort myself ). Come back when a fresh wind carries with it some new found enchantment. My other idea for you is to take over where Huel Howser (Californias Gold) left off and begin interviewing everybody associated with the canals including random lock volunteers and the maybe several owners of those majestic homes you fancy along the banks. Available on Prime Video . I must admit I do enjoy your interview vlogs and hope that you can carry on with that side of boating. Theyre really not designed for water thats not totally flat calm, and typically have holes in the hull (eg for sink waste outlets or engine cooling vents) just a few inches above the waterline so any waves could easily flood the boat. Add to this that I think the documentary style videos that Cruising the cut has done have been excellent and often amazing, then why not focus more on this type of content? Take care and I look forward to seeing more about the canals and your book! At first I was able to help with the locks etc . For me, it was woodworking (specifically with handtools to start). The calmness! Whats yourname and whats your background?Im David Johns. :-) Take care and enjoy your winter. When boats were horse-drawn and there was no towpath in a tunnel (because to build one would require a wider tunnel which would cost more), the boats would be legged through; a plank of wood laid across the bows, two men lying flat on it and walking the boat with their legs out to reach the walls of the tunnel. DJ. Took time to develop these resources but find the boating community there outstanding. I have to admit to not watching them myself as I have watched pretty much all of Davids Cruising the Cut videos on YouTube, so dont really feel the need. Thank you for taking the time and effort, in making hours and hours of videos for Cruising the Cut. Why are the canals so disgustingly filthy? Hi Peter. Happy new year! Im sure the young saleswoman would have loved talking about the subject. 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. Thank you Lesley, I appreciate that. I am not surprised you are struggling. DJ. Get enough views and this will eventually add up. I still smile about the vlog where you let that other boat overtake and do the hard work for you! Cheers, P.S. The simplicity in the way theyre edited and narrated. Happy new year. The shell (hull) was built by G&J Reeves and the interior fit-out was by Millburn Boats. Dear David, We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Many people were shocked and some hardcore fans were dissapointed at David for abandoning the narrowboating community that they knew and loved. Best wishes. I'm 53 and used to work as a local TV news reporter for ITV in the south east of England. Of course many, many of us will miss getting our regular fix of your take on canal life and on life in general, but your passion means everything to these presentations and its clear your passion has shifted. None the less, whatever direction you do endup taking, stopping the videos, new boat, new location etc etc, i wish for you nothing but the very best and thank you for the dedication you have had to your channel, for sharing your travels and life aboard your boat. Which guide books do you use?I use Nicholsons Guides because some of those were on the boat when I bought it so Im used to them. Glad the videos help. Cheers from the U.S., may all be well with you. I loved your interviews and the film on the canal restoration. About. Ive also heard it said that most people are right-handed thus their right hand is on the tiller so they stand on the left hand side of the boat; therefore when passing another boat coming towards you, both skippers will be on the side thats nearest to the oncoming boat.A recent comment on my vlogs also explained that the steering board on ships of old would be on the right (hence the term starboard for right) and boats would put into port on the left (hence the term port for left hand side). Many boaters do not paint the bottom at all! cruising the cut david johns; monthly parking graduate hospital. Love your minidocus! Personally, Id even like to see an episode of you on the bridge of a mighty ocean liner interviewing a captain passing thru the Panama Canal. david johns cruising the cut wife. The Caldon canal has two far ends - it splits into two, going to Froghall and Leek - so in this episode, David takes his narrowboat to the Leek arm. Have a look at Vlog 74 which is all about heating on narrowboats. Cheers. Hey, nice show. I found your comments about not enjoying the cruising so much anymore. Journal entry: 11th May, Wednesday. Bicycle Touring Pro: Darren Alff: website | cruising the cut david johns channel Blogger >. Im sure I speak for lots of us in that we will miss your happy face and funny escapades. I have only done one canal trip, on the Brec, after a life-time of wanting to cruise. A narrowboat needs only 1-2kW to move along (once it has begun moving) thus a 20kWh battery pack could sustain 5-10 hours travel (presuming standard lead-acid tech ie 50% drawdown before recharge) and presuming the battery is not used for anything else aboard (though in reality most electric-focused boats use it for domestic purposes as well so the battery and solar system has to support that too)However, solar is not so reliable in the UK. Although there are others that do what you doyoure the best. I havent done enough of the canals to be able to happily recommend somewhere; also everyones requirements are different.Plus hirers tend to do one of the standard circular routes so they end up back where theyve started, whereas Ive just dawdled my way on the various canals as Ive seen fit so my experience isnt similar to a hirer.Most hirers want to know about site-seeing places and which pubs to visit and on that front Im a dead loss as well as I just dont go to them. Take care. This is part 1 of 3 of that week-long cruise. Have a look at this video from Slim Potatohead where he experiments with one on his caravan (travel trailer): https://youtu.be/ZvXwqMWbt1c?t=122. You were terrific! Im 53 and used to work as a local TV news reporter for ITV in the south east of England. An unheated boat in winter even in Spring or Autumn would be cold but thats precisely why narrowboats have heating installed. This gets stirred up each time a boat goes by and then hangs in the water so it looks dirty.The CRT do dredge parts of the canals occasionally but its an expensive business so sadly there isnt enough dredging done. Cheers. J. Clay Hall, P.E. Why dont you fit a wind turbine?Theyre quite costly, apparently make a lot of vibration noise throughout the boat, and dont generate a huge amount of power. There is no need to be cold on a narrowboat. I work for the emergency services and have been flat out since this pandemic started, and frankly Im exhausted. Why dont boaters greet each other when they pass?They DO! It looks different each time because of direction, season of the year and time of day. 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. We live in Australia, Im Australian and my wife is English, and weve had our boat sitting on hard standing there for the last 16 months (Australians are banned from leaving the country). 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. Jasmin from This Narrowboat Adventure has done an excellent video about a new phone app which you can use to get services from a local GP wherever you are on the network. Glad you like the videos. Makes sense to me! After cruising the cut since 1975, starting with hire boats, then owned boats and shared boats I have since my widowhood enjoyed hotel boats. . Anyway, take a break and maybe youll find the passion again after a few of the more in-depth videos you plan to make. 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). Also enjoy yor VAN videos, Thank you Tony. How deep are the canals?Not very; they only needed to be dug deep enough to float a barge full of tonnes of cargo, any deeper was wasted effort. Yes, Im hoping Ill feel recharged after a bit. The reason I'm blogging about this is that in October 2019 the vloger, former TV presenter David Johns*, came to Liverpool to experience crossing the Mersey estuary in a narrow boat. After 13 years of doing this and working in radio, I decided to chuck it all in and buy a narrowboat to cruise around the canals on. Thanks for watching and the info about the viaduct. You can just rock up at a hire firm or brokerage, pay your money and head off down the canal with no experience, test or licence whatsoever. 31 talking about this. Hireboaters are not allowed to usually, under the terms of their hire. Plus the supermarkets often react badly to people filming in them. Now settled in Portsmouth so swapped canals for seaside walks. Genres: Adventure, History, Documentary. His YouTube channels include: Cruising The Cut (narrowboats): www.youtube.com/CruisingTheCutUK Fully understand your reasoning. Hi How do you make money?I am now a full-time YouTuber; every time someone watches the ads that occasionally play, I get a fraction of a penny. Well put and totally understood. 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. In all honesty, pretty as the canals may be, for me it will always be the human interest and your personal touch that attract me to your channels. Be well and keep in touch. In order to avoid damage to the rudder, boats would pass port side to port side. Your email address will not be published. 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. Hi David, I shall miss your humour and lovely take on the world of cruising, but, take the time you need to fall back in love with it. Stars David Johns David Johns See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video S1-4 included with Prime Add to Watchlist 11 User reviews Heres to 2022! List of other boat-tubers: www.CruisingTheCut.co.uk/links/. Dont eat them, youll likely give yourself something nasty from the water.See https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/fishing/angling-strategies/fishing-faqs for the CRTs Fishing Questions page.For the various types of fish in the canals, see https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/fishing/fish-species. I hope to feel more energised about it all after a couple of months not doing it! I spent happy hours walking the Oxford canal (gongoozeler) and its rich wildlife. Unfortunately I cannot as I have never used any of the rental companies myself so I cant in good conscience recommend any. I have put together a (short) list with links of some of the best known hire firms but this does not constitute a recommendation: click here to see the list, What about a route, can you recommend one for us when hiring?Again, alas no. Narrowboat VS Barge: Whats the Difference? Thank you for a lovely gentle series of programmes. I also enjoyed the cheerful ditty, in the beginning of each episode! Thank you for tuning in and Im so glad they bring back wonderful memories. I know youre a humbly modest man, but like so many of your other followers weve become equally fond of seeing your face and listening to your witty narrative. Davids background in TV and Radio is probably what brings his YouTube channel such a unique feel. I am glad you enjoy the videos. How do canal boats and Narrowboaters get mail? Damian. Have breather and keep safe ok? I have recently started work on Season Four for Prime (which comprises footage from 2019). To start with due to my advancing years I do not hear as well as I did but I can hear every word you say and you do not drown out your remarks with inappropriate music. 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. Cheers, David, just watched your 2021 things to come video. Thank you Iris. By what name was Cruising the Cut web-series (2019) officially released in India in English? For a typical video which will have taken me a day to film plus two to three more days to script, edit and upload, I might earn maybe 20-30 ish for each 10,000 views it gets. Im sure you have your own interests, but when youve got some of your joie de vivre back Id like to put in a vote for a video about the Worsley mines, the equipment used and the people that worked them. Will miss your travels. I joke with my friends about this interest phenomenon and call it A big bad case of the low Ts. (male and female alike) Extremely funny! My wife has just asked me for a divorce and your series has provided some diversion from the misery and loneliness. I love your work and admire the quality of it, so I will wait patiently for your return. Fingers crossed but realistically. Why do you eat so many cheese sandwiches and whats in them?Because I love cheese I use the strongest cheddar I can get (preferably Pilgrims Choice Extra Mature or Cathedral City et al), with some tomato, maybe some cucumber slices and nothing else. So a huge thanks for your wonderful videos, youve been a link to the canals for us. Unfortunately theres no charging infrastructure on (most of) the canals so yes youd also need a generator of some sort even if thats just the engine standalone diesel gennys are ridiculously expensive and a massive battery bank which is expensive, weighty and requires maintenance. Cheers, Hi David, not sure how to add an independent comment so jumping off your response. Passion is everything! David, Hello David. It was all I could do to not ask her about narrowboating. First of all thanks for all the very nice and enjoyable videos up to now ( Cruising the Cut, Vandemonium and lately also you story telling) However, like what some other popular Narrowboat Youtubers have done, this isnt a traditional TV show but an Amazon Prime series of videos that you can buy and watch. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Just say you were visiting and felt ill or needed a checkup or whatever. Meanwhile: best wishes for the new year, stay healthy and safe! If youre permanently in one location or have a base mooring, register somewhere near there and whenever you go back to the mooring you can get your teeth checked or whatever. I know I have really enjoyed this channel since its creation, offering some of the most informative and well-presented narrowboat based content around! Bear in mind the boats pivot in the middle so as you turn, the back end is going out. 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