You did a video about restoring a toilet cassette. I think the people complaining about your videos being all rainbows and unicorns haven't looked back enough.

Ah, the joys of owning a narrowboat! 😅 Very impressed with the skills of the boater who towed you - hard enough steering one boat in the wind!

Home with a cold and binge-watching Cruising the Cut videos in no particular order. Very therapeutic 🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

Get well soon!

Your breakdown appears to be the result of sub-standard mechanical work earlier in the boat's life (before you bought her). The engine oil seal and the lack of split-washers on the adapter plate bolts are indicators of this. Unfortunately, these things are almost impossible to check when surveying a boat prior to purchase. I'm glad you were quick to detect that 'odd noise' and immediately nursed the boat to a marina. Your quick action probably saved you a much larger repair bill. Happy New Year and happy boating from here on. 👍👍

What a lovely doggy giving you a tow and very good of the marina to let you stay. Well done Tom & Co

On the other side of the pond, we say cruising is fixing your boat in exotic locations... Glad it all worked out!

Hi We have returned to narrow boating after a gap of two years, having spent 8 years on the Kennet and Avon. We picked up our new boat from the builders in Warwick and her maiden voyage was to a small marina in Northamptonshire on the Grand Union. I happened upon your vlog whilst surfing you tube and can say this morning I have completed all your videos. I have enjoyed them greatly and realised what I have been missing over the last two years. I am so looking forward to cruising the midlands and the north indulging in my past time of wild life photography from the unique prospective of a Narrowboat. I look forward to your 2020 vlogs and hope to pass you on the cut one day Captain Pugwash aka Grahame

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome back to the cut!

Having problems like that is always stressful. On the other hand it's always a comforting feeling when you know that the problem has been solved and you can proceed with a certain amount of confidence.

Experiences like those boaters helping you make life worth it. It really is the small things in life.

CLASSIC B.O.A.T. moment. Go to fix one thing, and find out there's 5 other things you should probably fix as well. Time to "Break out another thousand" :) Hopes shes running good after your expenses. It will be well worth. Thanks for taking a camera along for all this!

Nothing like the kindness of others to save the day, eh? Hope you offered them a good cup of tea in thanks!

I'd love to watch this, but i'm still only on episode 60. i'll see ya back here in . . . a while. Love the videos from the start!

We call them "mechanics" here. Engineers design things and mechanics have to compensate for their engineering shortfalls by fixing them. Police that bilge from now on and good luck.

@t1n4444

4 жыл бұрын

Over here HM, we call it "cobbling". (Aka D.I.Y.) A term covering everyone from a real, expert, experienced mechanical engineering bod to someone who owns a hammer and a blunt screwdriver who is not shy at having a go at fixing anything, anything at all under the Sun ... without a manual. And of course incurring hundreds of millions of £££ ( collectively) in getting a real expert to fix it properly. This expert person is known as "a man who can". "A man who can" absolutely loves people "cobbling" because a task which might have taken 5 mins turns into an epic repair job which pays off the mortgage, ensures a new car every two years and three months holiday cruising around the planet. You may be familiar with this economic "model"?

Just like decorating a house through the letter box. Impressed.

Sorry for your problems but an excellent narration of the problem. I boated for 16 years in New York, USA and towed a number of folks. One chap thru 4 locks on the Champlain Canal and into his home slip. Thanks for sharing. 😎

I think you are the best man for a canal vlog. You have a cordial ,and convivial way about you. You speak clearly and concisely too. I enjoy your videos..glad you got the old gal working again.

Bummer Well at least it happended at the end of the season and you were close by to the marina,, luckily not a wrecked transsmission,,, just a few parts a little down time,, hope it did not croak your repair budget,, thanks for Shareing Sir !!!!

An absolutely fabulous advert for the canal and river rescue and aston marina both well deserved . Glad to see your up and running again .

With everything else going on in the UK and the rest of the world, your VLOG is a real tonic. It's all too easy to forget about what is really important in life - oil seals, flywheels and sheared bolts... thank you, sir!

"A bit of a klonk" what a lovely description

Thanks for the unglamorous look at life on the canal. I enjoy the seeing mechanical bits of a canal boat and what it takes to keep them running. Let's hope for years of easy running with repaired gearbox!

Thank goodness, a fresh Cruising The Cut to break the sky screaming.

@mikenelson8786

4 жыл бұрын

Happy New Year. Glad to see you back online and mobile. You will soon be a narrowboat mechanic.

What a brilliant vlog and such a great boating community, where everyone pitches in to help. It took a while to fix with the parts arriving. But it also proves my two favouite little proverbs. ' Life happens while we are busy making other plans' and ' There is never a good time for a crisis' Thank you for sharing.

my mom used to repair heavy marine gearboxes, I remember her bringing the larger trawler size ones home as she used to work on them sitting up in bed. I asked her if she enjoyed lifting those huge gears about , she said "Its hell son- pass me a large crow bar and chaw of bakkey"

What an adventure. Thanks for sharing it with us David. Boat: A hole in the water into which you pour money. Can't wait for the winter fireside chats!

Love the artwork on the narrowboat that towed you to your new mooring

Breaking down across from a marina is so idealic on your part. You live such a sheltered life. Whenever the rest of us break down we are always in the middle of nowhere and have to swim for our lives. But seriously, I’m glad you had good bad luck. That’s what I call it when things could’ve been much much worse. If it’s mechanical, it will fail when you least expect it. 👍👍

Wow almost 100k subs! love the sound of that little diesel

Who are the grumpy sods who downvoted this vlog? Keep up the great work, one of my fave channels 👍🏻

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

My army of haters!

@carolleenkelmann3829

4 жыл бұрын

@@CruisingTheCut man, that's nothing. 8 sour grapes.

@Gregwing

4 жыл бұрын

@@CruisingTheCut Wait! You have an army? Well, I guess that makes sense. With your drone and Narrow Boat, you have the Airforce and Navy covered.

@hermitoldguy6312

4 жыл бұрын

5 in 10,000? It's just people having "finger trouble", trying to watch in full-screen.

I guess it's time to clean & re-paint the engine bay again, eh? :)

@munchkinheaven

4 жыл бұрын

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Top Work by the "RCR Guys". Very impressed :-)

Glad you got it fixed!

Is it my imagination but I think your boat sounds better.

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it does

When I read the headline my first thoughts were, "THAT CAN'T HAPPEN", but to my astonishment and amazement it nearly did, I'm not sure I could have been so jolly facing that situation, thank you for posting that blog David, it's not all smelling the Rose's, being a boat owner does come with hidden costs,, I take my hat off to your marine engineer for fixing your gearbox and engine in the field, clearly highly skilled. An old saying of fathers, if you don't plan for maintenance, your equipment will plan it for you, in this situation I am not sure you could plan for that. Happy new year David.

Proof once again that a boat is a hole in the water into which you pour money. I had an electrical issue with my outboard this summer that was an expensive and thankfully short-lived interruption. Glad it eventually worked out for you.

I'm glad you showed some of the headaches involved in cruising, which are frankly endemic to almost any activity involving machinery. For some real excitement in your life, take that gearbox apart!

"Pah !, nothing that a tube of silicon and masses of duct tape can't fix" - Me (as I select my favourite hammer from my extensive hammer collection )

Hi. I'm sure those replacement bolts were put back with some thread locking compound or at least shake proof washers under the heads. Even better would be to have had the heads drilled and the bolts then wired in place. I guess it was the vibes from the diesel that loosened them. I very much doubt the engine was built with that damage to the seal, specialised tools are used for inserting at build. I rather suspect it had been badly replaced once before - maybe without lifting the engine enough to get the necessary clear working space. Still, great to know that there is a highly skilled and capable Canal Rescue Service, I did not know that existed and it's been great to see them in action. Bob.

the plate , it should never come loose. Rear main crankshaft seals do leak eventually, but that usually takes thousands of hours of operation. So I think the worn drive plate shook everything loose. But those bolts need to be torqued with loctite applied. Looks like a lot of issues got resolved in one swoop, which is a good thing.

I'm glad it broke down when you were so near to the marina and not when you were in the middle of nowhere. Glad you got it sorted and found help to relocate the boat where there was power.

I would wager that that had been taken apart before. The dent in the seal likely came from someone tapping it in with a hammer, the factory would have the proper press to install it. The bolts also wouldn't have come loose if they were torqued correctly. Not that it matters now, though. Good to see you back on the move.

@anthonyrstrawbridge

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, the factory service does not supply or recommend pressing this seal into the housing. The bolts have a known tendency to loosen in this installation due to the culmination of forces. I'm observing the time from properly torqued with dowels set properly to be approximately 800 hours operational time. A dirty prop or worn drivetrain component will significantly shorten this time. Interestingly, there are service bulletins relating to the dowl pins being mis - installed or missing.

Ugh I hate when mechanical issues happen with my car, I cannot imagine a boat! The stress is real.. I’m glad that there were nice people to help you and Tom did a great job. I love the sound of that engine. Glad you’re back out on the water! Cheers! I watch playlists of your not-a-vlogs nightly to sleep to.😁

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

Awww that's lovely. I love sending people to sleep hahaha ;-)

@Vlogsoup

4 жыл бұрын

CruisingTheCut hahaha 😄 I enjoy your sense of humor 😁

Dear oh deary me, you and your noble narrowboat have given me so many hours of blissful peace on the canals. God bless you and your boat, and the canals, and all who helped you.and repaired your boat. I pray I will live until spring and see you cruise the cut again.

That was actually quite fascinating. I'd love to be able to repair Narrowboat engines, still time to learn I guess.

Wow! That, apart from a hull plate around the galley outflow that had rusted to 'lace' and a failed bilge pump allied with a rudder pintle that spewed water on the Thames, I think that is the most serious boat breakdown I've ever encountered. You were kind of doubly lucky about where you were, when it happened and having really skillful neighbours prepared to tow you to a shore line! Could have been a cold, bleak couple of weeks else. On the plus side, you've been fretting about an oil leak for an age and, I'm guessing, slow speed handling has probably improved with that drive plate having been replaced. Incidentally, in the motorcycle world, that flexible coupling is called a 'cush drive'. I even had something similar on a CT Scanner I used to work on! Thank you for thinking of making a distressingly stationary interval, into such an interesting vlog. And well done to the field engineers who came out to do the work.

Great Video nothing like a New Year grope in oily cold wet bilge to remind you of joys of boating..

Only shows the “Idyllic” side of narrow boating, they must have missed the paint scrapping and repairing/repainting in the engine compartment episode. Keep the episodes coming, love the countryside and history of your amazing country, thank you sir.

phew! that must have been stressful!

"pipes, bits and bobs that get in the way of removing the gearbox" I think the word you're after is "Contranklements."

Thanks for sharing the dark side of boat life...bet that cost a penny or two ,😞

The wonderful ups and downs of narrow boating LOL. Nice to see something a little different.

Love Old mechanic. So simple and still more advanced than People think

At the beginning, the sound you heard is best described as "expensive" ... mechanics will understand ...

@kevgermany

4 жыл бұрын

And rub their hands with glee. Not in front of the customer of course. Here an air of sympathy and concern is called for while keeping the smile well hidden as the profit is mentally totted up. Not too different from undertakers really, except the aim of the mechanic is to get repeat business, but undertakers just do the one job.

@t1n4444

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevgermany Family rates?

Thanks for the video! Greetings from Spain!

Glad it was "easy" to fix, back to the water!

I watched the KZread "TV Journalist Quits His Job to Live on a Tiny House Boat". During the interview you mentioned as a field reporter you felt like a "one man band". A very eloquent summary of working through life. Your skill sets of writer, director, producer, photography, and "starring role" shine through. Well Done.

Glad it's all sorted and nobody died ! Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year David.

Great videos as always. I’ve spent the evening catching up on the last 9 vlogs and they are so relaxing and you’ve got my sense of humour. Now onto Vandemonium. 👍🏼

Thanks David very educational. It’s weird how often in trying to cure one problem you find or solve another. Glad you are moving again.

You will be delighted to know this nail biting episode vastly speeded my slurping of tea and munching of Jaffa cakes so nearly a full pot and packet was consumed by the end... Apparently this is the answer... you have to break something on the boat weekly to assist viewers ! all essential elements were involved cool doggies .. much better than Horseys and cows.. and your usual ratio of cruising .. about 2% with most time spent in a marina... a resoundingly successful vlog 10/10 :-)

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

Haha thank you

@Bicyclehub

4 жыл бұрын

Jaffa cakes are no problem. They are mostly orange and oranges are fruit. Fruit is good for you. Eat as much as you can.

Well David, as a retired heavy equipment mechanic I can tell you that you got off very lucky. The damage was minimal. Other then a few parts it would have been mostly labor. Shame that who ever put it together last time missed a few steps, such as lock washers or some thread locker. But that coupling was not much longer for this world so it had to be done anyway. I live on the West Coast of Canada on the ocean. We don't have narrow boats, to bad because it looks like a nice way to cruise. Boats are not my favorite, but I will admit that yours actually looks fairly easy. I know that you don't want to talk about how much it cost you to repair but in my part of the world you would be looking at about $100/hr Canadian and that would be an independent mechanic and not a company. If you went with a boatyard the rates will go up from there. Just a little comparison for you. Looking forward to your next episode.

@RealLuckless

4 жыл бұрын

We should start a campaign to get dual purpose recreational and commercial use canals built... Can you imagine the lock stairs we could have going on here in BC?

@wornoutwrench8128

4 жыл бұрын

@@RealLuckless It would be a bit mind boggling but what an idea.

Good to see it was a simple ( albeit costly) fic. By the way, those plastic shock absorbing drive flanges are known in agriculture as a "cush drive".

Just sat here looking at your vlog and realised you have been doing these vblogs for almost four years. I found your site after I had surgery for cancer and subsequent chemo-therapy. You and fish-finger sandwiches helped to get me through some dark times. The result is I am still here and have my own little yoghurt pot. Thank you. Thought you would like to know.

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the videos (and the sandwiches). Hope the cancer's gone for good and that you're having fun in the boat.

Blimey, what an ordeal! The tinkerer in me enjoyed seeing all the components in pieces but every other part of me hopes I’ll never have to do that job myself 😀 Thanks for sharing that 👍

Happy New Year!!! Cruising is always fixing the boat in exotic places :)

No mention of how much a big job like that can cost. I imagine those types of expenses are why so many boats get abandoned and then auctioned off by the CRT, huh?

Glad that you got it sorted out eventually. Perhaps you'll now have that pristine clean engine bay that I know you've yearned for!

Your editing skills for the titles are the best in the KZread community! We enjoy your tours tremendously, even the technical bits, we always learn something. We hope your are not discouraged by this set back! You have persevered through pumps, cartridges, electrical, packing glands, rust, and indignant water foul. Nice detailed explanation of technical problem.

Lucky to have a failure in port instead of the open sea. Blessed to have quality mechanics available,,,mostly now all i can find are parts replacers,,,most of the true mechanics have all died off

Much better than having the front fall off! But hopefully that will never happen as there aren't many waves on the canals.

So glad to hear that the oil leak has been finally found and repaired! It has been a source of vexation for such a long time.

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

One of the oil leaks!

Much better video, like these much better than watching the canal throughout the video. Thanks for taking the viewers comments on board :)

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

I hate to disappoint you but I hardly ever do stuff because a viewer's requested it. Over winter, I don't cruise so you get non-cruising videos, that's all!!

Break down to fill vloger requests, that's commitment, thanks for the video, keep warm all the best for the new year.

I know this cant have been the happiest thing for you to go through but there's something immensely satisfying as a viewer to see a problem arise and then be resolved 👀 I've said it before and I'll say it again this is the best show with truly complete plotlines and character arcs 😛

I absolutely love your videos... I'm so glad I found them. I watch something from you every day. Please keep them coming.

Wonderful people helping you with puppy also nice painting on the side of their boat.

Advance engineering terms “ that silver and green thing is the gear box “ lol. Great video, glad all is well with your narrow boat now.....

LOL, your video title is another brilliant nod to a TV show set in the southwestern US. From a couple hundred miles down Interstate 25 from Walter White's house, here's a big "Howdy!"

Happy that the damage wasn't worse. Could have been a BIG disaster. Happy boating!

Love your vlog. I have a 27 foot trailer (I am Canadian) and Vandemonium and The Cut series have given me some great ideas for solar on my unit. Thanks.

People who say that you only show the idyllic side of narrow boating have obviously never seen the episode when you renovated a toilet cassette :)

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha true

Congrats on finding a new easier way to drain the gearbox oil.

You are useful information, you are someone I like watching for that

Good to see you had some great company (Maggie, Ryan & Pixel) at your temporary moorings.

You look very calm throughout but that must have been very stressful 👍🏻

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

It was a bit, yes

And I thought it was only Maggie on Narrow Boat Chef who "broke the boat!" All this honesty is chilling...and scary ...one needs a strong cup of tea and maybe a strong cheese sandwich...phew...what a start to 2020.

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe it was because I was near their marina that I broke down and it was her fault all along!! ;-)

@NarrowboatChef

4 жыл бұрын

CruisingTheCut, hey, hey, that’s enough of that! Don’t you start blaming me for breaking the boat!!

Another top notch video sir! Blessings to you!

This job calls for a TOASTED cheese & onion sandwich! With an ale too! I really enjoy viewing both your narrow boat & conversion van volgs.

I bet you are much happier now that everything is fixed. Super video.

Twiddling is a good thing. Have you had the opportunity to try twiddling thumbs in opposite directions?

Good honest repairs going on, No faffing around with ECUs and weird Torx bolts. another factor in the simple way of life.

I suppose its inevitable for things like this to happen from time to time, how lucky to be close to a suitable mooring and to have other boaters available to help things along for you. Thank you for another brilliant vlog. Very pleased you have everything sorted and are back on your planned route. Very best wishes for 2020 David, looking forward to your next offering :)

Mechanics and engineers make the world go round.

@dianemorris6904

4 жыл бұрын

Trevor, we bless them especially when they make house calls but not when your regular mechanic and his minions laugh when you bring in hubby's manual 4x4 and you have been driving power steering assisted automatic for 10 years. Had a V8, dual carburetor, 4 on the floor that I drove every day. Now I am older and driving in luxury, well as much luxury in a Hyundia van just a bit bigger than David's Vandemonium van, then bringing in the hubby's work car because he's away in the truck. Do you know how heavy a clutch is to push in when you don't do it regularly? Then you drive the van the next day and keep pushing your clutch foot on the floor like an idiot. I put it down to muscle memory except I have no muscle left lol

Really useful to see what to do when you break down. I've had a boat for almost 4 years and not yet had a major problem. But it's only a matter of time!

@t1n4444

4 жыл бұрын

True, but, by the looks of it that issue was caused by another's duff work. Some folks never have any issues.

Thank goodness you got that sorted.

I suddenly understand the frustration of being tied down - when one's urge to putter about suddenly has no outlet. Nice to see everything fixed and the trip to winter moorings sorted. Hope the future will be less fidgety.

Remember that cyclic resonance a lot of viewers have been saying they could hear for the last 12 months or so? Will be very interested to hear how she sounds now on a steady cruise. The joys of mechanical wizardry.

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

I think the resonance is actually the exhaust silence rattling against its mounting because (not shown in this video) I discovered that’s what’s been making the horrible rattling noise at low revs when you’re just out of neutral.

@rayg9069

4 жыл бұрын

@@CruisingTheCut All good fun! At least your boat wasn't build by Land Rover, or you would have started repair by removing the front saloon doors :-) A peaceful new year David.

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha that made me chuckle.

It is surprising when a problem is settled and you are freed from a cloud of stress that you didn't realize you were under. Funny how the mind works and rather annoying too.

problems arise, it happened in a convenient spot and worked out well 'glad you're back at it

The oil coming out of the transmission looked really good, your servicing procedure seems to be working well.

@CruisingTheCut

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it was pretty clean but while it was out and was due a change there's no harm in changing it, I thought.