Should we buy a canal boat (even if we keep running aground)? | Ep 387
November 24, 2024 by followtheboat | Language: EN Play Time: 00:42:52 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
Sailboat vs narrowboat! In the half light between selling our boat and starting a new adventure, Liz is on SY Esper in Malaysia and Jamie is in the UK. While there he decides to take up YOUR suggestion to live on a canal boat for a week.
“Can’t be harder than living on a sailboat,” he thought.
We’ve never run aground on our sailboat…
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00:00 You told us to buy a narrowboat!
00:26 Cambridgeshire waterways
00:53 Is this a precursor to us buying a narrowboat?
01:23 Narrowboat holiday, Birmingham, 1986
02:08 Sailing and narrowboats are the same?
02:36 The River Great Ouse and the Fens
03:48 Narrowboat charter company Bridge Boatyard, Ely
04:56 Ely Cathedral
06:01 Our passage up the River Great Ouse
07:06 River erosion
08:50 Denver Sluice
11:27 The Relief Channel
11:49 Downham Market
12:03 The Canal and River Trust (CRT)
13:09 The Little Ouse
15:15 RSPB Lakenheath
18:39 Inside this narrowboat
20:12 RUNNING AGROUND at Brandon Lock
24:48 An expert runs aground three times
31:55 Little Ouse
33:33 The River Lark and Prickwillow
35:13 Narrowboat vs Widebeam
36:28 The Old West River
38:25 About pump stations and fenlands
40:29 Slowing down for kingfishers
41:49 Could we live on a narrowboat?
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