Thanks David... after endless stories of the great orange one, brexit shenanigans, climate catastrophe, and the pandemic wrecking civilization, it’s so nice to be able to lose oneself in the bucolic scenery and relaxing lifestyle your vlog depicts so wonderfully. Please keep it up good sir, the world needs more of this right now.

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it’s calming for you, the world’s in a funny way at the moment ☹️

@lvlndco

3 жыл бұрын

@@CruisingTheCut I wonder if someone found Pandora's box hidden away in some forgotten ruin and opened it! I think we need some more installments of calmness...no pressure.

@jolem2184

3 жыл бұрын

Buddy Whatshisname Buddy weisatou tat you’ve nailed

@jolem2184

3 жыл бұрын

Okay, I have no idea what language I managed to blurb out but what I meant to say is you nailed my thoughts with your comment. Thank you Buddy from the bottom of my jyoiunmyb (heart)😉

your sense of humour always gets me laughing, thank you for that,, the best medicine......

If this was Midsomer Murders, the scene of your mysterious "wobble" would cut to a scene of the canal being flanked by crime scene tape as divers brought the cause to the surface and DCI Barnaby interviewed you on the tow path.

@millomweb

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds a much better idea.

@zapfanzapfan

3 жыл бұрын

Hope someone steals that idea!

The groves in the lock are, I guess, for installing planks as a temporary water barier, to empty the lock for servicing the gates.

When I see the gates open from the bottom of a deep lock I always think, "Welcome, to Jurassic Park" (fanfare)

That incident was probably an Orca bumping your boat. Such bizarre times.

@zapfanzapfan

3 жыл бұрын

Next, an otter will jump up on the boat to get away from the Orca.

Virtual Cruisin without the stress of owning a norrowboat, where I can sit with me sausage sandwich and a cuppa. Watching the world go by and relax, just enjoy the views. 😁

Politics! Pandemics! Panic! Thank you for your soothing videos.

Your videos are so calming for my anxiety issues. Thank you.

First of all, another nice, gentle vlog. These are very much needed - esp here in smoke filled Sacramento, California. Second, there are nice, light folding trollies (hand trucks here in US). I use mine for my music gear. Third, I propose David Johns for knighthood. You are giving the world one of the best insights into England and the English soul.

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I will inform the Queen

I hope your blacking isn't cracking from that underwater whacking.

Alrewas or in the anglo saxon days, alre an alder tree and waese a wash area. fen, flood plain, marsh etc. before the land was drained the over flow from local rivers would create such a wet land. So the village I suppose, may now have the modern English name of Aldermarsh.

@1258-Eckhart

3 жыл бұрын

Or to be very precise, Alder Carr - a carr is the specifc sort of swampiness that alders like to grow in.

Hi David, I am from Austria and I found your channel while searching for videos about boat holidays (we have already done this in France and the Netherlands). In the last 2 months I have watched ALL of your vlogs, almost every TV evening started with "hello and welcome to the vlog" :-) David, thank you so much for your videos (also for the fun stuff, your "bread baking" is really outstanding, I watched it already several times) and also thank you for the work that goes with them, please keep going like this!!!! Greetings from Austria, Helmut

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome along!

Calling them a "Formula 1 Pit Crew" really cracked me up. Loved it heaps.

The mixture of social and solitary is one of the things I have always loved about travel and camping by motorcycle.

If it wasn’t for volunteers in every walk of life the world would almost come to a halt.

@Martin-se3ij

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for volunteering that thought, saved me the bother.

Oooo, we made the big time! That's my wife helping you in the lock at Fradley (at 4:10) and I am the patient (and astute) husband navigating the boat in the pound below. Keep up the good work - we saw a few vloggers on our travels in the last month (Robbie Cummings, Floating Our Boat and the Tiller People) but you are the Original and Best, in my humble opinion.

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

Ah! Well hello again and thanks for the lock help, much appreciated. And thanks for the lovely compliment :-)

@myhillslife27

3 жыл бұрын

I only have eyes for David....................... hehehe.. not checked out others

Very civilized and relaxing to watch.

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

Good!

I do relish the appearances of these videos. At 5:09 we passed a narrowboat that read "Sam" 'Sawley Mist'. It almost brought a tear to my eye. A loved one, no longer with us I thought. A Google search (other search engines are available) quickly made me chuckle. A very enjoyable end to a busy day. Thanks David.

Watched you for a long time and managed to get a deposit on a boat. You've just sailed past it at 10.25 as you come past Wychnor Church

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on sorting out a boat! I like those moorings at Wychnor...

Cruising the Cut I have a great idea for a new KZread channel. As YT increasingly gives the impression that the majority of Brits now live on narrowboats, how about a channel entitled 'Living in a house: How I moved from the canals onto dry land'. Subjects covered would include 'How to put out the dustbins', 'Annual costs of owning a house', 'Going shopping by car', 'How to use a plumbed-in toilet', 'Cooking in a house', 'Basic maintenance of a house' 'Gardening - some ideas'. I am sure that it would be very popular, as stressed narrowboaters need some escapist viewing after trudging through mud to the shops, emptying their toilet cassette, struggling to open a load of heavy locks every day etc...

My DNA results: I am 96% UK... no wonder I enjoy your very British style. ( I'm a 3rd generation Californian)

I love that you're showing some small off-boat errands. Thanks.

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers

An easy day on the canal! According to the ever-reliable Wikkipedia, Alrewas is pronounced "awl-ree-was" and the name derives from the Old English 'Alor-wæsse', meaning "alluvial land growing with alder trees". These toponyms (apparently!) always bother me - can you imagine someone actually bothering to call a place 'alluvial land growing with alder trees'?!

@jamesellsworth9673

3 жыл бұрын

THANKS for the research!

Thanks for your time making videos 🙂 I enjoy them immensely. Cheers.

Trumpet Fanfare Gates would make a great April Fools version...

Bravo to volunteers at locks 🔒

You just cant avoid it, David, it is so easy to see the brilliant journalist you are, and all the experiencie you have, to build these tiny bits and pieces of your wanderings over England's fine canals system, all i can think about is thank you for sharing with us some of your insights with your travellings, it is a wonder to watch, so relaxing and peaceful, i love your videos, thank you so much for remembering about us and sharing them, my friend.

David, I’m a 26 year old plumber and I love your channel, I sit and watch them while I eat my tea and it has inspired me to want to follow in your footsteps and live on a narrowboat!!

3:38 Concur. You can never have enough relaxing at home with a cuppa and a nice cheese sandwich. 5:55 "When In Doubt, Mumble" is the title of a 1972 book by American humorist James Boren (1925-2010), written on the subject of "the vacuumental thinking and idiotoxicities of Washington". It's an amusing read. Recommended for a rainy day on board, if you can find a copy. Splendidly relaxing video as always, safe journeys!

In honour of the vlog I watched it whilst consuming a sandwich, which consisted of extra mature cheddar and Baxters caramelised onion chutney. Gorgeous, like the scenery!

i live in mexico, and when faced with a place named 'tlacotalpan', or 'nezahualcoyotl', i also mumble without conviction. it is indeed a viable technique.

They would be like a formula one crew, if more tea and biscuits was involved in formula one.

Thanks for taking us along on your shore excursion to get coal. Every time you stop to go to the shoppes I always wonder what it's like.

It’s unfortunate, that by the time I found this video, it is too late to say GOD Bless the lockees. They are a blessing to you all.

Don`t ever change anything in your videos. They are pure meditation.

Once again a great video. I look forward to seeing your little trips. Keep up the great work and stay safe.

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

The name of that town sounds like the sound my cat makes when she is hacking up a hairball. LOL.

@GlasgowGallus

3 жыл бұрын

Cat hairballs... They're the best kind...

@DavidJohnson-rj8zu

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like me in the morning try shift the phlegm off my chest😜

@alfiemartin3536

3 жыл бұрын

Oi I leave in that village lol

@DrIngo1980

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. 🤣

@christinehunter9867

3 жыл бұрын

😆😆🤣🤣😂😂

A long crappy Monday at work. Get home. Oh look, Dave's got a video up . . Ahh nice. Roof looks great !

The new paint on the roof looks great ! 😃❤🇺🇸

Gosh been missing your videos so glad you uploaded. Thanks!

I wonder if you could train those swans to do the trumpeting for you!

Of course I love the beautiful scenery, but the most interesting bits to me are when you are doing just the ordinary day to day stuff like filling up with water and buying coal. Take care, God bless, Gloria 🐂

Nice to see you on the move 👍 🛐 🙏 From DETROIT . MICHIGAN U S A 🇺🇲 🇬🇧💘

Hello David, what about making an interview with one of the volunteer lockkeepers?

@garyrichardson8934

3 жыл бұрын

I particularly liked his interview with the man who'd invented the automatic tunnel boat wash.

@andreamundt

3 жыл бұрын

Good idea !

@madscientist5969

3 жыл бұрын

I imagine they would have some interesting tales to tell...

When you're chatting with the other boater opening the swing gate at the start, on the left there is a alien watching you from beside the little outhouse.

@thomaspaine3976

3 жыл бұрын

Wow creepy 😂😂

@paulhaynes8045

3 жыл бұрын

I honestly thought that was a CRT volunteer filming David at first. It was only when I wondered why they were doing that, and looked closer that I realised what it was!

@johnnoisnothome

3 жыл бұрын

@mllClam there everywhere 👽

86°f sounds so nice. Here in California we’ve been so hot this summer. 112°f a few times. The smoke from all these fires is getting a little bit ridiculous.

@spikespa5208

3 жыл бұрын

"A little bit"?

@pianochannel100

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, I live up in washington so it's not quite as bad. It still blocks out the sun though, dark all day and you can't go outside

@user-sq1nc5ot8m

3 жыл бұрын

The grey sky is crazy right?

@SLO-Ride

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Officially 120f here in San Luis Obispo, and all the winds are funneling the smoke across the county out to sea. Just murderous.

We were travelling along here a few weeks ago, but we were taking our time. We spent a night at Fradley, and discovered that the water point there is probably the slowest in the country.. We then stopped just before Alrewas, and stayed a couple of nights because it became very windy (we were 2 boats away from the top lock landing, and had great fun watching the mainly inexperienced boaters negotiating the lock).

I am very pleased to see you are back. The scenery is so beautiful and relaxing. The little village looks very picturesque. By the way, one can never have too many cheese sandwiches. My favorite.

3:30 it is most likely just a very heavy lock gate. It probably needs maintanance too.

Barton Marina, they have a range of shops, places you can buy fresh food and several eateries including a pub. I have just finished watching and I genuinely haven't any read comments but you asked a question about gouges in brickwork. I think they are/were for planks to drop in and isolate the section of the canal for repairs etc. Do I get a virtual cheese sandwich if I am right. To anyone who got whatever the answer is correct earlier then well done.

Sorry I haven't commented on your Videos of late, they are how ever very entertaining, and quite full of useful information if I end up on you canals at some point in time. Thank You very much for sharing and please stay safe and healthy. Cheerio Mate.

Ol - re - wuss. That’s how the real locals pronounce the village. 👏🏻

@rubyfriday8590

3 жыл бұрын

Having grown up in the area I can confirm you are correct in your suggested pronunciation!

You need to go to a Auto. shop store and buy one of those electronic car horns with chose of fanfares to play at a touch of a button. That why you can play yourself through the locks. "Eye of the Tiger" would be good for you. That's based on that steely gaze of yours up by your thumbnail for Cruising the cut.

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

I might just do that!

@stephengurd5272

3 жыл бұрын

@@CruisingTheCut we where on a cruise ship..... it's horn played Disney Whist Upon a, Star...... Ok it was Disney Magic.

So peaceful, serene, unhurried..,come to the Puget Sound for some sheer terror! I spent the last three weeks cruising the Pacific Northwest, complete with engine overheating and gale force winds, plus the usual wakemeisters troubling the waters at every inopportunity

@mikeyoung9810

3 жыл бұрын

Now that would be interesting video. None of that exciting cheese sandwich action were all used too on this channel. hehe.

I think you have gone up a good few thousand subscribers since I first started watching a few months ago. Well deserved!

Thanks for a wonderful channel. I'm not into this at all, but I keep returning for a nice escape every so often.

My quack keeps on trying to foist anti-depression tablets onto me, she thinks I imagine that they would be Good for my depression whereas 25mins of your Vlog cheers me up no end. Thanks, David.

Glad to see you back on the water.... Keep up the good work!

Thank you so much for your videos! I actually feel like I'm not stuck at home when I'm watching. I must absolutely travel the canals at least once in my life. Keep up the good work and the puns! (The worse the better!)

A high interest and oodles of civility, what more might be asked? Thanks for taking us along on your adventures!

Only an Englishman! "There's going to ba heat wave, better buy some coal then". Well, you never know?

You seem to have perhaps the most popular narrow boat vlog. With the hundreds it seems quite a feat. Keep up the enjoyable work.

I love watching your videos. Much love and hope you have a great day.

Hello from America👋🏻. I am a newcomer to KZread viewing. I picked up the habit during lock down. I am a history buff and an Anglophile so somehow KZread algorithms led me to your channel and what a lucky thing it did! I have thoroughly enjoyed watching you cruise the cut in the UK. Of course canals would fascinate an American seeing as we don’t have many left here.You have just the sense of humor and self deprecating wit that I enjoy most! Thank for sharing your journeys with me❤️👍🏻. As you say, Cherrio.

Quiz time : What do we all think David had for his lunch? Answers on a postcard to ......!! Some lovely English countryside there David - luck you 😎👍👍

@harveysmith100

3 жыл бұрын

A ham sandwich. Sorry, not very good at quiz's

@stephenpegum9776

3 жыл бұрын

@@harveysmith100 You're not wrong there Harvey !! 😎😱

I think this whole canal system is amazing thing for this country to have and to keep the system running.

This was a nice and enjoyable cruise. I'm glad that you were able to get out and about. Cheerio!

Been watching the channel for over a week after KZreads algorithm thought an Appalachian would enjoy learning about narrowboating, and the math was right. 👍

@gonzo3954

2 жыл бұрын

I'm in Florida and KZread thought I'd like it too. Surprise, they were right!

Nice paint job on the roof! ;0)

They're stop-plank grooves! But then you knew that, didn't you, you little tease!!!😄😂🤣

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

Of course, I know the answer - that’s why it’s “quiz time” 😀

I just sat down to watch your video with 2 cheese tacos (corn tortillas of course) and a Dr Pepper. Being in Texas I figured this would be an appropriate cuisine for my geological location.

I'm not sure it would be a good idea, but while watching those lock gates swing open, I could clearly hear the "Jurassic Park" theme playing in my mind...

I’m enjoying your vlogs from Afghanistan, a great diversion!

Those slots in the lock wall at 8:55, look like slots for stop boards but as they don't go all the way to the top, that wouldn't work. However, I susspect the top of the slot use to be the top of the lock wall. Looking at the mixture of stone and brick my guess would be that at some point, the large stone edging blocks all along the top of the lock walls were removed, the walls built up higher, and then the large blocks replaced. For whatever reason those two large stones were left in place. Perhaps they had a couple of spare stones so didn't need to go to the considerable effort of moving these last two. If we look to the far left of the picture we can see another slot built in further along so perhaps this is the replacement stop board location. Unlike the orginal, this is lower than the canal water line but, as this would have been built in to keep the river water out while the lock chamber was raised up (and for subsequent maintenance) so only needed to be a little over the high rivers levels.

A fanfare for locks opening ... this seems like a splendid opportunity for a custom horn replacement. something with a little mp3 proclaiming your entrance into the lower canal !!

whilst narrowboating through alrewas, i found it has the best butchers i've ever been to. fantastic pork pies.

Alrewas; from the Anglo-Saxon alr-wasta, meaning the Alder(wood) waste(land), in reference to the area's ancient aspect. Place-name etymology is a great way to understand the natural and economic history of the land in which we live. Brill channel, BTW.

Always love seeing your videos after a long day!

If I remember correctly, your last video had a bunch of folks opening and closing the locks. If this keeps up you'll forget how to do this chore. Pretty big marina. This was a cool video.

@jamesellsworth9673

3 жыл бұрын

I thought I have seen fishing villages with fewer vessels moored!

I’ve been waiting all week for this! Another great video mate 👍🏻

8:11 1 and 1/4 furlongs is a wonderfully British measurement.

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

I hoped someone would like that!

@firefly24601

3 жыл бұрын

I think when it comes time to sell his boat, he should advertise it in guineas. :)

The paint job on the roof looks good as well David 👌

Once again I enjoyed your vlog.

OMG! The inevitable footsteps on the roof 😭

"Alre", I never would have pronounced that correctly even if I had taken a class on it. I'm sure the locals are used to hearing the name mangled. This reminds me of the River Tim's, I could never find it on the map but yet, would regularly hear people mention it. I assumed it was named after King Tim (or the enchanter in Monty Python's Holy Grail). Then one day I discovered it is spelled "Thames" (being an American, please forgive me), I always pronounced it the way it was spelled.

The "gouges" in the lock wall are for planks which can be slid in as temporary gates so lock repairs can be done without the river comming in and drowning the people doing it 👍. They can also be flood control.

Been watching your vlogs for quite a while now and really enjoy them. I'm hoping one day to live on a canal boat like yourself and have learnt lots from watching you vlogs. Thanks

6:08, mooring is only allowed if you can pronounce the name of the village. Legend says, it's never used.

Well I just had a cheese sandwich, a toasted cheese sandwich for dinner, it was great.

Grandad's favorite in the summertime was melted cheese topped with bacon and a slice of tomato fresh from the garden.....had it yesterday for lunch! never never too much cheese.

@davewilliams6172

3 жыл бұрын

mmmm bacon....I'm off to raid the kitchen!

That unpronounceable village is unmistakeably GORGEOUS!

Never knew you were a news reporter 🤣🤣 Just seen clips of you on the program fight for Dale Farm. You looked very young and dapper😂😂

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

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I have completed every single video! We need move David!

your narration has a unique and very pleasant style. Whole family are watching. my kids say you are the voice of "little big planet" game.

@dafroz2479

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, I tend not to watch the ones he's not talking in.

I always thing "Welcome to Jurassic park" when I see lock gates opening.

2:31 Soooo David did you ever hear back from CRT about the proper trumpet training for the Lockies? :P :P

Isn't that what you are supposed to have a second crew member for? In case of emergency on a river, you tie a rope to them and throw them overboard? :) Safe travels!

Thanks David. Very enjoyable video. ...all the best...Chris 🇨🇦

I’m so glad this channel was randomly recommended! The scenery is simply stunning, what a splendid way to experience the UK! I do so appreciate the humorous narrative as well👍🏻

@CruisingTheCut

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!