. Thank you Peter, I hope to be back before long although since we are now in another full lockdown, who knows, Hi David, Happy new year to you! Thank you so much. And finally, I opened an online merchandise store selling brandedmugs, hats, t-shirts and suchlike; I really should push this more but I dont want to become one of those channels thats always trying to flog stuff to its viewers. Best always. A change is in the wind then.. To be honest, I cant fault you and it DOES make perfect sense. Your show is a wealth of knowledge as well as entertaining! However, things changed with recently, which avid fans will have seen. And, to be honest, there are so many other channels offering the living on the canal experience with cruising videos and all, that I think the Cruising the Cut fan base can easily find a new home for this type of content. Makes sense to me! One of the reasons for Remini's departure from Scientology in 2013 is because she had first asked about Miscavige's wife's absence at the marriage of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in November . Id love to do some of the French canals though. Dear David, 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. "Best Of Cruising the Cut" Play all 187. Hello! Take care and I look forward to seeing more about the canals and your book! I am taking a break, not giving up, but I wont be cruising on my own boat. By the way, there may be a shed load of boat tubers out there, but none of them have the professionalism (and dulcet tone!) Thanks for your videos. Why dont you have / fit a bow thruster / trolling motor?Although many (generally newer) narrowboats have bow thrusters, it would be near impossible to fit one onto my boat without some major, and expensive, surgery. Its only the ads that pay, I get nothing for views of the videos themselves unless youre a member of YouTube Premium. All fish must be returned to the canal alive except non-native species which must not be returned. I lived in Rugby the last 15 years while my daughter attended the eponymous school. If you can wade your way through that occasional treacle, its good stuff. We love the insight into your amazing lifestyle please give us something to look forward to! Also, when you are going past moored boats, it is required (and polite) to slow to an absolute crawl, generally at engine tickover or just over, so that you dont rock them or pull their mooring pins out this really does happen when boats go zooming past with no regard for anyone else. Oh, how amusing that you wanted to chat with the saleswoman about narrowboats! A. There's two reasons. As an American, I am astonished at just how much history England has to offer in terms of beautiful things such as a flight of locks, or a Steam Engine Works museum. He was very clear in his explanation of the boats inner workings and doing a wonderful job upgrading and replacing parts needed to make the boat more manageable. Thats calculated as 40 feet / 12m usable roof length at absolute max, assuming you dont store anything else up there (which most boaters do) and that you dont want to get on the roof during lock maneouvres (which again most boaters do) x about 1.6m width which you dont want to overhang else the panels may get shredded when you go through some bridge holes or tunnels.Using high output 400W LG Neon solar panels (1m x 2m dimensions), youll get 6 panels max = 2.4kW maximum theoretical output. I must admit I do enjoy your interview vlogs and hope that you can carry on with that side of boating. It would not be wise to operate the boat and a drone single-handed, your attention would either be on one or the other and that would not be safe. :-) Take care and enjoy your winter. In short, not really worth the effort according to most sources Ive read. David, I totally support the decisions and conclusions you have made in regard to your personal life and how it intertwines with your Youtube Channel. 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) Lovely to hear of your three year old enjoying the videos too :-). Regards, David, Dear David, as much as I dislike the message I do understand! Cast & Crew. 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. I worked briefly for a time at IBM in Havant many years ago so I vaguely know the Portsmouth area :-), Hello David from Houston TX. They need a really decent (and constant) strong wind to even start generating, let alone creating their rated output. Oh, how galling for you yet of course its entirely appropriate to have to do it. Manage Settings What's your name and what's your background? Just say you were visiting and felt ill or needed a checkup or whatever. If the boat ever goes up for sale, it will be through a broker and yes, I would announce it on the channel. I (David Johns) quit my job in 2015, sold my house and went to live on a narrowboat. I do hope you get to enjoy that narrowboat trip sometime soon. 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. David Johns is on Facebook. It is not exactly what I would like to see happen but I get it fully. Bruce Martin, Hello Bruce. Then he leaves the boat again and visits friends going over the world-famous Pontcysyllte aqueduct in north Wales. Also, I dont like handing out my address for obvious reasons. At first I was able to help with the locks etc . Happy new year. He is best known for his breakthrough role as Daniel Blake in the 2016 Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake. Haha thank you and Im glad youre enjoying the shows. Where does the grey water from the sink and shower go?Unlike your sewage, which has to be storedin one form or another until you get to an emptying point, grey water goes straight back into the canal. Im pleased to say my parents are recovering well, and your series has really genuinely helped me to find some calm and re-centre. Just watched the episode about Fazeley and Tamworthmy home town, even though I now live in Montana, USA! Plus I have recently (vlog 139 onwards) taken to adding specific Google Map links to my start and end points for each video. Please stay healthy, and I look forward to your reemergence whenever and in whatever form best suits you. Thank you for tuning in and Im so glad they bring back wonderful memories. Do the canals ever flood? How did the boats of old go through tunnels without a towpath? You might have heard some fellow boaters talking about a new Cruising the Cut TV Show and wondered what channel it was on. Whats your fuel consumption?Ive never measured it but narrowboats typically drink 1-1.5 ltr/hour. We have a sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay, in Maryland and plan to be narrowest tourists someday soon. What does it cost to live aboard a canal boat?There are a huge number of variables which mean there is no simple answer to what does it cost? Please make a cup of tea, get comfortable and take a look at my Vlog 66, Vlog 67 and Vlog 68 plus the more recent Vlog 213, all of which go into the costs in excruciating detail. You just dont see it on my videos. I am not surprised you are struggling. Would definitely find it so interesting on the restoration of the canals and anything else you wish to get into. Unfortunately, due to a bit of an issue with Amazon (to do with showing the show in the UK), I am unlikely to compile Season Five but new videos will always appear here on this website and on my YouTube channel. As for doctors, dentists etc, just stay signed up to your usual one and go in to any local surgery on a visiting basis if you need to; they dont need to know youre on a boat. Seeing your posts I hope whatever you have a go at you can enjoy it with the same passion. May you find your way back to joy. Typically, a canal might be maybe 4-5 feet deep in the middle (the canal bed tends to slope upwards slightly at the edges). Why not use a drone to look ahead and around corners?Not really feasible as a solo boater. He usually asks me to rewind a few times at the beginning to play boat show song again!. I suspect you may be referring to the tune on the Prime Video episodes. How do canal boats and Narrowboaters get mail? Thanks Daz. 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. Im not sure what Ill be able to do yet, the pandemic is quite restrictive but hopefully that will start to clear later in the year maybe? l Googled you and saw that you are doing no more of them, and that disappoints some but I certainly understand it if cruising the narrow boat has lost its joy. . You take care of yourself, stay safe and stay healthy and enjoy getting away and doing something interesting FOR YOU. I dont do much either, just eat a meal and watch telly or YouTube (see my Day in the Life in Lockdown video). GO FOR IT. I have been working all through the Christmas period, obviously without being able to see my family, worrying about them and every day worrying about what I might be picking up at work and bringing home to my wife and two young children. Watching your interviews and a bit if Vandemonium, Im quite confident in your ability to pivot and find a new wind. I turned around, headed home and told my wife I was going to sell the bike, and it was gone in two weeks. He chucked his job, sold his house, bought an old school, live-aboard fifty-six foot "narrow boat," and started chugging along . If it is anything like the YouTube content, I am sure it is as well presented and informative as ever!! Ah, thank you! My suspicion, like you, is that this virus situation isnt going away any time soon so next season is looking unlikely. Rest assured there are at least two more seasons for Prime still to come before they catch up with where I am on YouTube :-), I grew up along side the Birminham & Worcester near Hopwood; the brightly paintled narrowboats always caught my attention & instilled a calming sense of freedom when they chugged by. Life is better when it goes by slow and you can enjoy it worts and all. After a windstorm dropped a large branch near the house, I bought a cheap pair of chisels and decided to make a stool. The main important thing is: It is YOUR life, you must enjoy what you are doing and ENJOY whatever you do! Not good to have a boat you totally cant use. Hi Sandra. Best of luck to you regardless of how you spend this coming year. English. A bygone age: horse-drawn narrowboat on the Welsh canals. Thiswebsite has ads on it from Google; that also earns a few pounds each month, literally just enough to pay for the website hosting! The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. Cheers. The handsome viaduct you filmed on Rugbys outskirts at Hillmoreton used to carry a railway line, long gone, now much used by bikers, walkers and horse riders. All the navigations on the canal, even the tight corners can be easily turned by using the tiller, as can most maneouvres such as mooring. David sighted that he had fallen out of love with cruising his narrowboat and was moving onto land to secure a land-based home for his future retirement (or this is the impression I got from watching his announcement anyway!!). How about putting up some links to what you consider your best of videos? Your best bet is to phone a few, get a feel for what they offer, and ask around on the canal forums to see which ones people whove used them recommend. I hope that taking a break can rejuvenate you as well, in these difficult times it is easy to forget to breathe. I just found your videos a couple of months ago. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. 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. It dawned on me that if you considered selling or auctioning off your iconic celebrity cannalboat along with an autographed DVD package of her amazing heartfelt journeys. Plus the supermarkets often react badly to people filming in them. April 18, 2022 By . I agree entirely: a lonely, odd year it most certainly was. Can you change the boats name and how?You can call a narrowboat wherever you want, pretty much, and rename it as often as you like (superstition holds that you should do this with the boat out of the water but I dont believe in all that nonsense).As long as you inform the Canal and River Trust so they can reissue your licence, youre OK. A couple of years ago there was extensive winter damage on some of the northern canals due to flooding which even raised up boats onto the towpath and left them there once the waters receeded. I. am a retired licensed professional mechanical and electrical engineer, age 78 living in Memphis, Tennessee, USA (of course). 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. The sandwich default is un-heated in any way. Commentdocument.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a466f7fa279cfeb3faa3721fc2cbb4ba" );document.getElementById("ga9fca26c7").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Save my name, email, and site URL in my browser for next time I post a comment. Hi David (1962) was a surprise commercial success when it was first released. So no, the canals are two-way for 99% of the time. theres enough space to two to pass albeit carefully. I hope 2021 is less dreary for you and that wonderful things inspire you. Thank you so much! Back in 2015, the UK television news reporter David Johns was very unhappy with his personal and professional life. Can I visit your boat?As I am no longer living aboard and have sold the boat (see this video for my reasons), no! 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! Unlike rivers theres virtually no current in the canals except for whenever a lock is emptied, and with the canals being so shallow and having a lot of trees on the bank, theres an awful lot of silt lying at the bottom. You can tell they are not expert camera operators. After cruising the cut since 1975, starting with hire boats, then owned boats and shared boats I have since my widowhood enjoyed hotel boats. 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. Apart from a few high spots around the canal network, we just dont get the kind of breeze these things need.Plus they have to be put up and down each time you travel. I have to say I loved the Coalfinger vlog and watched it more than once. Watch with Prime. Always been fascinated by canal cruising. Narrowboat VS Barge: Whats the Difference? However, this all changed on March 2022 when Cruising the Cut (AKA David) announced that he was selling up his narrowboat and moving onto dry land again. And indeed, Prime Season Four ended at approximately vlog 201 at the end of 2019 so there is still some cruising from 2020 (when pandemic restrictions were lifted for a while) as well as many other videos since, which I hope you will enjoy either here on this website or on my YouTube channel which is where all new content is posted. Continue with Recommended Cookies. His YouTube channels include: Cruising The Cut (narrowboats): www.youtube.com/CruisingTheCutUK 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. A break will do you good and you can decide on the way forward. 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 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. Highland Dreamer, Thank you both and happy new year to you too! So for the last 16 months narrowboat videos, yours and others, have been our only link to narrowboating. One thing I personally would LOVE to see more of is this: night time shots, life aboard the boat at night, scenes of the evening skies or stars, din din aboard the boat, that sort of thing. The videos the last 5 years you can see and hear that in your videos. Petrol gennys are much cheaper, a couple of hundred quid, but you have all the issues of storing petrol safely on board (it being extremely flammable of course) and of accessing it since most wharfs and marinas dont sell it so you have to trek along a road to the nearest garage with a canister in hand. Many, possibly most, have multi-fuel stoves which burn coal or wood and they will keep a boat so toasty youll have the windows open in mid-winter! I hope you enjoy your next project, whatever it might be! Can you recommend a hire company for us to use? David, My three year old and I have been watching an episode of boat show before bed. Take a break, fill up your tank to the brim and well see your happy face again! Welcome to the Airscape, the online home of video producer David Johns.He has over fifteen years experience as a reporter and presenter on radio, television and online, working for ITV and the BBC amongst many others, as well as seven or so years as a full-time YouTube videomaker. was aretha franklin at the harlem cultural festival? At a push, I will eat pickle in it as well but its not something I add by default.And no, the sandwich is not grilled, that seems to be an American thing. Also enjoy yor VAN videos, Thank you Tony. My wife was very glad that I hadnt brought up the topic. Oh, I can imagine just how your wife is pleased! Many boaters do not paint the bottom at all! Bear in mind the canals are entirely man-made and were quite literally dug out by teams of thousands of men a couple of hundred years ago, using pickaxes and shovels. FRANKFURT REBELS. I wouldnt take my own boat over though, Im more likely to hire one. 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. I work for the emergency services and have been flat out since this pandemic started, and frankly Im exhausted. Ive really enjoyed your videos over time. Happy new year! Cheers. Do continue to enjoy your boat. Journal entry: 11th May, Wednesday. Thank you! 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. Roughly. Thanks John. Glad it brought back nice memories of home :-), I absolutely love your episodes on Amazon. In the 5 years that I've lived aboard both travelling and filming, I have devoted my every waking (also sometimes sleeping) moment to filming, editing and producing episodes of TBN. Lorna (aka London Boat Girl) has done a comprehensive video about it, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79df3e_z6sg. It was all I could do to not ask her about narrowboating. A rather lovely video to end the season sees David firstly having a new stove pipe custom-made to crown the chimney he'd fixed in Episode One and then, on an utterly glorious day in mid-summer, he takes a trip to Welshpool to see, and experience, a horse-drawn narrowboat. 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. 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. I know I have really enjoyed this channel since its creation, offering some of the most informative and well-presented narrowboat based content around! Cruising The Cut is about the historic canals of Britain. Whodathunk a man and his floating flat would become an over night success. All my life after the age of fourteen when I got my drivers license (driving license to you Brits, I believe) I have always enjoyed aimlessly driving about on the miles of back roads as a form of relaxing entertainment. And even if I zoomed in from above it doesnt really tell you anything useful about the place. How long was your boat, who built it and when?Its 55 feet 11 inches and was built in 2000. So its not a retrofit option but I wouldnt object to one on another boat. Thank you and again! Thank you! Cheers from the U.S., may all be well with you. cruising the cut david johns; monthly parking graduate hospital. of thousands of video views to get any sensible money. Why dont you steer from the front, in a covered wheelhouse? Regards from South Africa The canals are all about slowing down to a crawl, enjoying the sights and sounds of nature around you and taking a substantial time out from the world outside. Thank you Fred, I am glad I can give you that canal enjoyment despite the distance! Have a good New Year and hope we hear from you when your ready. Cheers. Hello Fred, I have a YouTube best of playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6_nZYR2nK4&list=PLa9px3O5n5hADgtrnNwa5jTzO7uaWC8-e. And thank you for your kind comments. You have brought our canals to life with your beautifully produced videos. Cheers. Thank you. They have lost their commitment and become the prisoners of their camera, patrons and schedule. Camera wont pick anything up. The countryside is generally very soothing too. This has been such a lonely, odd year. How do you deal with all the mosquitoes on the canals?There really arent that many. Regards, David, Bravo! david johns cruising the cut wife. 31 talking about this. David is survived by. DJ. And I can honestly say, my wife is very pleased with my decision as she was always worried when I was on the road. Can I sent you a gift, whats your address?Thats a very kind thought and thank you but although I did once, several years ago, accept an unsolicited gift (a hoodie), I now prefer not to receive items and politely decline such offers though I really do appreciate the sentiment. This is slightly different from some of my other what happened toX posts, as David is still posting regularly to his Cruising the Cut YouTube channel. The calmness! Im sure the young saleswoman would have loved talking about the subject. Hi Peter. Cheers, P.S. The 40million canal restoration in central England CruisingTheCut 1.3M views3 years ago 137. Thanks for watching and the info about the viaduct. So keep well, stay safe and enjoy 2021! You know, its beginning to sound like youre missing your TV reporting days. As Dory says, Keep on swimming.. I was totally amazed by the funny long boats and would imagine their lives travelling the waterways. Jill, Thank you Jill, much appreciated! Follow your heart love, you deserve it. Im sure I speak for lots of us in that we will miss your happy face and funny escapades. David then decided to sell up his land-based home and a lot of his possessions and live a more nomadic lifestyle cruising the canals of the UK. Cheers and hopefully not a forever farewell. 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. In that case they divide up your monthly fee amongst every creator you watched that month according to how much of each creators videos you watched. Again, thank you so much David. Its just that the focus of the content has changed. Take a bow, but dont fall in! Youd probably yield enough return to purchase an brandnew electric boat with money in the bank. I prefer to keep the channel focused on narrowboats and canals rather than life in Britain as there are other channels that do that. I, too, went through a similar mental encounter when I went out one day with my motorcycle. Really nothing to show in that regard. I produce videos on several YouTube channels, each with a different niche: Cruising the Cut (narrowboats, canals and other boaty matters); Vandemonium (campervans); UKAirscape and Tubeshootermag (camcorders and filming gear); DavidExpert (random gadget reviews) and David Reads Stories (exactly as the name suggests) Cheers. vorzeitige rckzahlung durch emittenten; stlting train service; auswandern panama immobilien Its always been a vague dream although hindered now by the pandemic of course. I have never visited your part of the world and had no idea that cruising the canals was taking place. I understand completely your reasons for cutting back on vlogs. Memphis, Tennessee 38120 My 2020 trip was, of course, cancelled and am sorry to say due to advancing years (94) I shall not be able to cruise any more and will look forward to reading anything you write about. One a month would work I think, you have quality so do not worry about quantity. Hi DavidI must be psychic. Because youve now become a global celebrity, Ill bet you that theres several CTC fans out there willing to buy your bettie for at least ten times what shes worth. OH! I found your comments about not enjoying the cruising so much anymore. 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. Genres: Adventure, History, Documentary. Since that original video we enjoyed binge watching all your videos (starting with #1) this past year. In her own words "I sold my house and bought a narrowboat in East London. There are more van videos to come! Your email address will not be published. You are very good at it. https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/fishing/angling-strategies/fishing-faqs, https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/fishing/fish-species, Links from my videos to Amazon with an affiliate code in them. Congratulations on becoming lead cutter. Love the vlogs as we see places where we would like to go.then maybe try them. . I used to paddle a canoe. And you can get diesel stove as well. Man throws up in court as his wife is jailed for biting off part of pub landlady's ear during boozy bar brawl. Certainly I can well understand that making videos and doing all that dialogue would not be at all a joy compared with simply turning on ones television set and watching from a reclining easy chair. So thank you kindly for that. Many people were shocked and some hardcore fans were dissapointed at David for abandoning the narrowboating community that they knew and loved. Amongst the constant roar of noise and urgency that is my life, as I watch your episodes for 30 odd minutes there is silence. 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. How do you / Why dont you paint the baseplate of the boat?This is a source of much debate, a bit like what type of boat toilet is best. Lorna is not my wife, it was a little joke I made in one of the videos because we see so much of each other, and a lot of people thought I was serious. Kindest regards 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. 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