The canal / narrowboat thread

[geeks]

Just read a couple of the blog posts, very clever and some nice artwork.

[Steve_D]

My god a PH thread taking an upturn rather than going down hill.
Got to be a first.
Nice, keep it going.

Steve

PS having said that the guy was pretty rock bottom to start with.

[Bert Cheese]

I notice Robbie Cumming of YouTube has been given some airtime on BBC4 which is now available on iPlayer at present.
A five part series entitled Canal Boat Diaries initially, quite entertaining though obviously rather more polished than his regular YouTube stuff, hopefully more will follow in due course...

Linky: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bks0

[PurpleTurtle]

Cheers, I’ll give all that a watch.

[Bonefish Blues]

It was nicely done I thought, although he was rather fond of close ups of him killing the engine I thought

[dhutch]

Saw this earlier which seems reasonably fair reporting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50558948

[MartG]

Bert Cheese said:

I notice Robbie Cumming of YouTube has been given some airtime on BBC4 which is now available on iPlayer at present.
A five part series entitled Canal Boat Diaries initially, quite entertaining though obviously rather more polished than his regular YouTube stuff, hopefully more will follow in due course...

Linky: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bks0

He's just announced that there will be a second series, filmed next year

[Bert Cheese]

MartG said:

He's just announced that there will be a second series, filmed next year

I did see that on his "Christmas broadcast" this morning, should be something to look forward to and meanwhile he has said he will carry on with YouTube when able.
Good to see he has been able to spend a bit of the BBC earnings on improving the boat too, some (most!) of the other canal vloggers vessels seem quite luxurious in comparison...

[egor110]

Bert Cheese said:

MartG said:

He's just announced that there will be a second series, filmed next year

I did see that on his "Christmas broadcast" this morning, should be something to look forward to and meanwhile he has said he will carry on with YouTube when able.
Good to see he has been able to spend a bit of the BBC earnings on improving the boat too, some (most!) of the other canal vloggers vessels seem quite luxurious in comparison...

Pub of the weeeeek

[MartG]

Bert Cheese said:

MartG said:

He's just announced that there will be a second series, filmed next year

I did see that on his "Christmas broadcast" this morning, should be something to look forward to and meanwhile he has said he will carry on with YouTube when able.
Good to see he has been able to spend a bit of the BBC earnings on improving the boat too, some (most!) of the other canal vloggers vessels seem quite luxurious in comparison...

Yes - I think his is one of the shorter boats compared to other vloggers, and older too

[john2443]

The Narrowboat Trust's boats make an appearance in Father Brown this week. Filmed at Cropredy last July.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000dcgm/fat...

Don't mention the non-authentic kitchen and the 1990s camping gas stove that are in shot

[geeks]

john2443 said:

Don't mention the non-authentic kitchen and the 1990s camping gas stove that are in shot

Nerd

[SimonTheSailor]

So who's got a solid fuel stove ? Do you like it ? Are they messy ? Do you get p*ssed off with emptying/cleaning it out ?

Still in two minds whether to fit one or not (after I have just purchased a stove.......)

[Simpo Two]

SimonTheSailor said:

So who's got a solid fuel stove ? Do you like it ? Are they messy ? Do you get p*ssed off with emptying/cleaning it out ?

Still in two minds whether to fit one or not (after I have just purchased a stove.......)

Eberspacher/Webasto would be my choice, in every respect.

[dhutch]

We have a squirrel in our boat with three rads off it, and for a boat used for holidays it's great, simple and effective, very little to go wrong, very controllable, stops in overnight etc.

However if you lived on board and worked away from the boat during the day, I can see that having something the can fire up on a timer would be huge blessing, and a solid fuel stove might get boring day in day out.

That said, I've seen so many threads of people having an absolute mare with diesel fired central heating I would research carefully before committing!

Daniel

[classicaholic]

We have one and now I have changed the ropes it is amazingly controllable, we also have diesel central heating but rarely use it, the stove keeps the boat really warm and is no real hassle to set and light, theres no rushing on a boat so not an issue!

[Simpo Two]

I hired a narrowboat once which had radiator c/h - wonder how that worked? Great for drying out clothes!

[SimonTheSailor]

Simpo Two said:

Eberspacher/Webasto would be my choice, in every respect.

What - hot air system ? Water heater/radiator system ?

[Simpo Two]

SimonTheSailor said:

Simpo Two said:

Eberspacher/Webasto would be my choice, in every respect.

What - hot air system ? Water heater/radiator system ?

Having experienced rads, as per my last post, they are rather good.

[john2443]

Simpo Two said:

I hired a narrowboat once which had radiator c/h - wonder how that worked? Great for drying out clothes!

Might have been off the engine - in car terms replace the radiator with ...err...radiators!

Modern boats tend to have diesel fired boilers, I think they used to have gas fired but probably due to safety (diesel doesn't explode, gas can) they've changed.