FYI, I've now created a collection of hand printed narrowboat art in my shop: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CarpentersDaughterGB

I’m glad you had a good survey it’s better having peace of mind for a few years than forking out a load of money on welding up holes and re plating the boat. Happy cruising

I love that land wobble feeling after coming home from a hire boat holiday.

That was quite interesting as I come from a part of the world where canals don't exist. Your bloopers were amusing with some of those facial expressions. Extra points for Hans.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

😆 I have lots of different facial expressions... apparently lol

Oh thank you very much. I’m still working on my house getting it ready for sale When it is sold I plan on buying just a shell and arranging new then fitting it out myself I think I still have a lot to learn but I was a maintenance man for a house in establishment so pretty clued up on DIY so can’t wait to get started and then relax on the canal with my new life thank you so much Gary.

The best video too explain buying a norrowboat

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :)

A boat or a house, you're always going to have to do some work but I like your adventurous attitude. You'll do wonderfully and have many years of enjoyment. Keep posting! I love this stuff.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks again, Mike :) Yes, I think you're right.. I'll always want to keep doing things to do 😂

Great life afloat, slows down your pace of life, good friends always willing to help

I really enjoyed this video and found it interesting, hope there are a few more to come.

A good learning curve.....

A couple of tips that may be worth thinking about. I've found that a set of two or four walkie-talkies to be quite useful with charge cradles at the bow and stern as this helps with communication if you have a crew working the locks or on that narrow stretch from Trevor to Llangollen for instance. I'm also fitting USB charge outlets running off the 12v domestic batteries in each cabin and at the stern as they are always useful. Happy cruising Vikkie!

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips :) We now have walkie talkies, but want to replace the earpiece for more like a headset. It's one of those annoying types that don't stay in your ear 😬😬

I had a good laugh from the bloopers.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂 I know my face can be a picture... I get annoyed with myself and pesky flies on a hot day don't help lol

Enjoyed watching especially the end thank you for always inspiring me to do jobs my self look forward to your next blog

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Aww, thanks so much!! Had to keep the bit in when my husband had added extra things in my bullet points 😆 It took me by surprise 😅

Very interesting and useful for anyone new to narrowboat ownership

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers 👍

What a great vlog. Entertaining and informative. Subscribed.

Awesome Vikkie. Congratulations and I hope that you’ll all be really happy there. Good to see that Hans already has his bed sorted. 🐕 🍪

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! He's a funny one 😆

Loving the narrow boat vids, nice departure from the fixed building vids, :-) love those too but so many similar vids of that type doing the rounds this is fresh to watch. :-) thanks for vids, vinny

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much :) I still have plenty DIY videos coming, but it'll be a mix of this and them for a while.

Loved the ending 😆

Nice way to end a Sunday evening. 🧡💪🏾

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Just come back from it and it's been glorious. Can't wait for our 2 week holiday on it now 👌

You guys are adventurers. I am jelious the boat life seems neat.😅

..lols, so I'm not the only one who has to do retakes. Sometimes I've to do several for my KZread channels short video's. What a great video you;ve made, again. I mean, it's so very informative and helpful. Thanks for making and listing it. (p.s. Love you collie as well, beautiful markings, mine's a blue merle. Oh and, ace was your batting the annoying flay away, at the end. Superb!) Shane. :-)

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Lol... rest assured... I NEVER do my videos right first time 🤭 Especially when I have SO many things to talk about 😬😄

Very interesting.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers :)

Really great informative vlog, you’ve gained a new sub. Are you well on your new exciting journey!

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Hope you enjoy our ride ☺️

Generally speaking having a fire source [kitchen] at one end of the boat and another fire source [engine] at the other end of the boat means two locations/end of the boat that could be blocked by fire whereas exiting is concerned... With the reverse layout with the kitchen and engine room at the same end of the boat you always have a exit that will be unblocked... [I know that may not really mean anything to those reading but try waking up, half in and half out awake, and having to suddenly flee for the exit way in the pitch black of night and you'll maybe see why I bring it up...] Godspeed and safe travels folks...

@scottphillips7108

3 жыл бұрын

From what I can see though... You've got a top notch actual NICE boat [inside & out] to work from... Very beautiful interior with all that natural wood everywhere... Be blessed... Peace...

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

That is such a valid point and one I didn't think of!

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

And thanks so much!

@scottphillips7108

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK...: Foresight usually helps avoid disasters so I try... God Bless You & Yours...

@scottphillips7108

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK...: Thank You for your time and effort on the video upload... Informative... I like those types of things... Sure others do as well...

Loving the blooper outtakes lol

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

😂

So cool!

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

I always suffer from motion sickness in anything that moves, unless I’m operating whatever vehicle/craft it is, so I fully sympathise with your experience, it sucks. I have to take travel sickness medication, which generally works, so it doesn’t hold me back, but still. This was very interesting, cheers!

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds a bit of a pain, but good that it's not stopping you from doing things. You'd have to be captain on a boat, then!! 😊

@terencejay8845

3 жыл бұрын

Sea-sickness can make you feel ill enough to look around for a gun.. Dreadful.

That was better, now subscribed.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was satisfactory this time 😂

Very interesting....

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :)

Nice boat you’ve got vikkie. I didn’t know you did bloopers, but they are funny.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

There's lots of bloopers in my life 🤣

@KevinWoodsWorkshop

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK you don’t really you’re a professional, I’m a real blooper, I can’t remember any more than 5 words.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Ha, thanks! I still don't feel perfect in front of a camera, but I keep practising to iron out any stutter anxiety. Often I stop myself mid-way because I'm convinced it's weak (not sure that's the right word, really), but then I watch back and think it was OK... why did I stop? It's all psychological lol.

18 pages, FRONT AND BACK! I got it 😉

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Lol... it genuinely was 18 pages, too 😂

@tomwills918

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

Interesting stuff... was also hoping to hear about prices, fees, maintenance costs etc.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, that's a whole different video :) One you might enjoy watching that helped up was Cruising The Cut's kzread.info/dash/bejne/p6Foyaqsfdu-e9I.html

Hope u do what most narrow boat users put there vids on tube, regular.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

2 жыл бұрын

Going forward, I've created a 2nd channel to keep it separate and less confusing for people kzread.info/dron/wH9T95W4QXYqQo8UJFC2LQ.html

Liked the end of the video. Hopefully you will have similar endings in the future.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Ha.. there's ALWAYS plenty, buy end up deleting them 😜

Thank you for your help I'm away to sell me house and b buy a boat to live on the canal . thanks Gary in Scotland.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

That's great news! Hope everything goes smoothly. It's worth a watch of the latest episode of The Narrowboat That James built. He's discovered a whole and apparently during the survey early on, the boat was on chocks so the surveyor couldn't inspect the base properly and he's now found a hole... so worth having it on hydraulics so the surveyor can check properly.

Did a bit of work at a solicitors office at Hull marina. It is a rather posh area(for hull anyway) with a lot of expensive looking vessels.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a lovely view while you work and dream about holidays 😄

@chrismaplethorpe6781

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK was a nice area Down there. Is like any big city has the nice and not so nice areas

Here's me expecting you to tell us how much the boat cost! Helpful insight, nonetheless. Thanks.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was best not to share because it gives people more opportunity to judge either way. Also, prices vary all over the country and they're not the same as last year when we were looking.

Sounds like quite the adventure - in every sense of the word! Just for my own curiosity, how far could you take this boat in, say, a zombie apocalypse? I imagine it's not really seaworthy, is it? Thanks for sharing!

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

That is a good question!! Is you search The Wash and Minimal List on KZread, they put a video up yesterday showing crossing part of the sea. It looked very scary and will give you a taste of what to expect.

@BeInspiredwithDominic

3 жыл бұрын

@@keen2b I think a pair of ships would be even harder to steer.

@BeInspiredwithDominic

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK thanks, will do!

My wife and I are looking to buy and live near Beverley beck I don’t no if you could recommend and marinas in that area, as you mentioned hull I am guessing you might know the area

57’ foot !!!🙀

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Yep 😝 It's scary initially with any narrowboat, but we're improving our confidence with each journey we do 😊

Do you get grief from anyone while boating?❤

Anything that can be used for a U.K. holiday is fetching a premium , motorhomes , caravans , holiday lets , canal boats , blame the travel restrictions !

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Ugh. It's such a shame and the thought of places being over crowded this year. No thanks! We cancelled our ccc and c&motorhome club memberships last year too. Just didn't see the point while everything was closed.

@jonsmith8582

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK Lets hope things are more settled next year ( can't believe I said next year, it's only June ) the way things are going , who knows ?

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

God, yes... let's hope! I have no plans to book anything abroad for the next year at least. It's far too unpredictable and can't imagine any holiday company being so willing to dish out refunds if a lockdown is put in place again.

I have a question, what does your dad think of living on a narrow boat?

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Good question! We're not living on the boat, so not sure what him or my Mum would think if we did. But my Dad often says, "enjoy yourself". But I suspect they're more house people as they go up in value and I think the same. My husband would live on it now, but I prefer being on it for extended periods, like a month here, or a month there.

I’m strictly a gongoozler.

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Fair enough :)

Great Northern accent! (I hope)

😀😊😄

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

😊

peace: solar panels good idea. paneled narrow boat.

@nisarnisar2597

3 жыл бұрын

loose its authenticity but have power. hahahahaa

@nisarnisar2597

3 жыл бұрын

coloured panels?

Would have a major job stopping my dog from jumping in to the water. Luckily your dog hans seems to want to stay on board and not in the water

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Haha... yes. He only goes in the water by accident 🤣 He fell in yesterday, in fact and misjudged getting off the boat. We don't have a life jacket on him, but his harness has a handle, which has proved important for lifting him out. So we now make him wear it all the time.

@chrismaplethorpe6781

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK girlfriends old dog would go out of her way to avoid walking through water. Have a photo of her stood on a rock on filey beach with the tide coming in round her. Had to carry her to dry ground because she wouldnt move and walk through the water.

h been in show biz ???ave you

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't go as far as saying show biz, but I was the carpenter on ITV's Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh for the first few episodes!

@nigelwatkins558

Жыл бұрын

@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK forgive me, I am watching you, for the first time , from New Zealand will definetely keep an eye for ya !

Is narrowboat a european thing?

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

4 күн бұрын

It's just a way of describing a boat that's 6'10 wide... we knew if we had that and it was no more that 57' long we could explore all 2000 miles of the british waterways... There isn't much commercial traffic anymore but i feel proud that we still maintain this old transport network as a big nature reserve now.

Great Content as is usual. But just one teeny weenie Criticism *Breath* 💕🇮🇪🇪🇺

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Talking to fast or the sound of my breath being picked up?

@derekmulready1523

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK Talking to fast. Relax. 💕🇮🇪

@TheCarpentersDaughterUK

3 жыл бұрын

Ah... I'll need a lot of practice on that 😆