See Vlog His journalistic training is not just in evidence in the finished product uploaded to YouTube. Then he takes us back in time to May 2018, when he went to London for the annual Inland Waterways Association's "Canalway Cavalcade", which is a huge and colourful pageant of narrowboats. Snatching the sound of Manannn's song on the bite of a northwesterly wind, 265. https://twitter.com/CruisingTheCut?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor, Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain. The one where David begins his autumn 2018 narrowboat cruise along the Grand Union canal, starting at Braunston in Northamptonshire and chugging through a hateful tunnel before turning south. I love cruising the cut, I have watched every episode and I hope amazon will give us another season of David and his narrowboat. Who is Cruising the Cut? Cruising the Cut is a YouTube channel started by David Johns in July 2015. David was once a local news reporter for a major TV channel in the UK and did this for over a decade, as well as working on local radio. A sense of aliveness that is contagious. A haze hung low on the canal. David's narrowboat voyage continues up the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal as he fixes a potentially disastrous leak in the weed hatch and meets some friends who join him in convoy on their boat as he tackles the terrifying (not really) River Soar. I can joke about 'cheese sandwiches' (although, we don't), but what can he joke about? It was a dark period of personal crisis. A presence that never took himself seriously, and often let us laugh at his mistakes so that we could avoid them, but who also had a gentle authority that we felt we could trust. In October 2015, David quit his job and went to live on a narrowboat where hes now making YouTube videos. His YouTube channels include: Cruising The Cut (narrowboats): www.youtube.com/CruisingTheCutUK A few weeks ago I went past the well-known historic narrowboat Dover on the Grand Union Canal but its looks belie its actual interior so I went back for a proper snoop around. Penny gloomily watched the entire scene with a very long face, appalled at such wanton misuse of her grooming equipment, as she always did at hair cutting time. On Episode 546 of Trick or Treat Radio we are joined once again by MZ, he mustnt regret his decision to return full time yet. Why do you eat so many cheese sandwiches and whats in them?Because I love cheese I use the strongest cheddar I can get (preferably Pilgrims Choice Extra Mature or Cathedral City et al), with some tomato, maybe some cucumber slices and nothing else. I went down to the big smoke to find out. So get the kettle on, and settle down." All the points of connection and reference run just one way. The time had come for me to go and have a look around a couple and see if they are for me. David's epic narrowboat odyssey along the Grand Union canal concludes as he returns to Braunston in surprisingly sunny weather for mid-October. I havent done enough of the canals to be able to happily recommend somewhere; also everyones requirements are different.Plus hirers tend to do one of the standard circular routes so they end up back where theyve started, whereas Ive just dawdled my way on the various canals as Ive seen fit so my experience isnt similar to a hirer.Most hirers want to know about site-seeing places and which pubs to visit and on that front Im a dead loss as well as I just dont go to them. Only in peak summertime are you likely to approach the solar panels maximum output and even then only when the sun is high.In spring and autumn, any solar is very variable and in winter its negligible plus the hours of daylight are much shorter too and the angle of the sun much lower (Its not always possible to angle the panels at the sun and even so, the other factors mean the resulting power will be far less than in summer).On an average 57 foot narrowboat you have space for about 2.3kW of solar. And, curiously, the boats have been restoring the volunteers as well. I like his personality and sense of humor. All Rights Reserved. A terrifying ordeal awaits our hero as he continues north up the Trent & Mersey canal: The "Scarecastle" Tunnel, a very long, dark, damp tunnel which has sagged in the middle over the many decades since it was built, making it very, very low indeed in some parts. He relishes a simple cheese sandwich. Vlog 279: Honey, I Shrunk the Narrowboat. After talking it through with Donna, we said yes and so we tentatively set the date for around the end of March and springtime. See here for our Journey with Jesus weekly webzine for the global church. David's epic narrowboat odyssey along the Grand Union canal concludes as he returns to Braunston in surprisingly sunny weather for mid-October. I was so worried about the interview and convinced that the only useable part if it was that 'I live on a boar', that the next day I emailed over to David a lot of other material so that if he wanted to persist with this desperate endeavour he could use instead of the interview, but that I also could quite well understand if he simply wanted to retain his dignity and walk away from this whole sorry saga. He is best known for his breakthrough role as Daniel Blake in the 2016 Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake. It's the coiled spring of life and energy of someone who has never lost their curiosity and interest in the world around. Where does the water come from to supply the canals? Back in 2015, the UK television news reporter David Johns was very unhappy with his personal and professional life. For the past three years, he has been living aboard his narrowboat and navigating the extensive British canal By Dan Clendenin | by Dan Clendenin | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. Its therefore important to use wildlife-friendly washing products so as not to poison the fish, ducks, swans and other canal animals.A lot of people seem to get very irate about the grey water situation and I suppose in an ideal world, if we started again from scratch, wed be likely to use grey water tanks and have to pump them out. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. Cheers, Do you need a TV licence on a boat?This is a more complicated subject than you might imagine. Will David make it through? The videos also have the usual travelogues about what they are up to and where they are. As he travels, Johns points things out with a wry sense of fun. My Drive Across America During the Coronavirus Pandemic. After all, if we are going to be rubbing shoulders with the YouTube, Boat-Vlog, Greats, we might as well go for the full Hollywood experience and style it out. Her nose snuffling new growth and old stones. And so, like so many, we have known David, in a kind of unknowing way, for a long time. Why do you steer from the back, not the front?Because with 40, 50 (indeed up to 72) feet of solid steel boat, you really need to stand at the back to see what its doing when you manoeuvre it; bear in mind they pivot in the middle so when you turn left, the back goes right and vice versa) not seeing what the back is doing could end up with you bashing a lot of moored boats on these narrow canals. This isn't a movie or even a television show, it's a "video blog" or, as IMDB puts it, a "web series" that you can watch on YouTube, Twitter, or Amazon Prime. Can you recommend a hire company for us to use? Can you take a narrowboat to sea?People have done taken narrowboats across the English Channel but it requires extensive preparation and some alterations to make them seaworthy as well as a calm day and nerves of steel. How did the boats of old go through tunnels without a towpath? He stops at pubs and villages. He navigates the many tunnels and locks. We had a very Plus he goes past the goose fields of Northamptonshire. A couple of days before his arrival we gave each other a good haircut with Penny's dog clippers. We took it slow and easy, Penny reacquainting herself with old haunts that were once so familiar to her. In which David travels south along the wonderfully green and lush Shropshire Union canal and admires several delightful old bridges along the way plus he gets admonished for going too fast. When David Came (Cruising the Cut) The Greek myths tell us that there are times when the gods come down from Olympus to walk amongst mortals. WebDavidExpertTV Style Vlogging & Reviews Date joined March 15, 2013 Twitter @DavidExpertTV Other media Website RSS (Feedburner) Videos 11 Schedule Unscheduled Status Inactive Username CruisingTheCut Channel trailer Most viewed video First video [Source] UKAirscape YouTuber Information Profile UKAirscape Style Tech, A variety of sources: rain, rivers, boreholes, reservoirs. When boats were horse-drawn and there was no towpath in a tunnel (because to build one would require a wider tunnel which would cost more), the boats would be legged through; a plank of wood laid across the bows, two men lying flat on it and walking the boat with their legs out to reach the walls of the tunnel. In short, not really worth the effort according to most sources Ive read. There are spooky goings-on along the canal (or are there?) In these special editions of "Cruising the Cut", your host David Johns takes a break from chugging along the English canals in his narrowboat to instead introduce different aspects of This show is the perfect antidote to all of the crap that is American network TV and all the junk that streaming services regurgitate. A guide to some of the very many gifts you can buy from narrowboaters, hand-made or designed on their narrowboats on the canals of the UK. Languages English. He had become too Americanized. He is best known for his breakthrough role as Daniel Blake in the 2016 Ken Loach film I, Daniel WebA seemingly naive and devout middle-aged man finds his way in the underground world of supernatural fighter plane films. Its a tale of mid-life crisis, David reaches the furthest point of his canal cruise, at the interestingly-named "Cowroast" - be assured, no cows were harmed in the making of this episode. David is a great teacher who makes every lesson fun. And even if I zoomed in from above it doesnt really tell you anything useful about the place. David Johns is an amazing host and everything about this show is equal parts wholesome, informative, and relaxing. It was created by David Johns who used to be a TV news But is the dream for real or is reality not quite as rosy? It was just that Nighttime on Still Waters is about the love (and power) of audio worlds, spoken words, sounds, a shared space in the night of a complicated word. Many, possibly most, have multi-fuel stoves which burn coal or wood and they will keep a boat so toasty youll have the windows open in mid-winter! He had in a peculiar way become part of our lives - 'Oh, I think David did a vlog on that! 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I presume the climate here just isnt warm enough for great clouds of them that you might find in other countries. I lie in the half-light of dawn, Suspended above the silty jungles Filled with so much life., Erica ready and waiting for David's visit, Banner image for David's Cruising the Cut YouTube channel. This is a solo effort from a 50-year- old former British TV journalist David Johns. We also talk about In this special bonus end-of-season episode, David goes "behind the scenes" at a narrowboat manufacturer, seeing how huge steel plates are beaten and wrestled into submission to become beautiful canal craft. He stops at pubs and villages. Cruising the Cut. I dont know of any narrowboats that steer from the front though there are some old, shorter, ones that had a wheelhouse slightly back from the middle. This page works best with JavaScript. After 13 years of doing this and working in radio, I decided to chuck it all in and buy a narrowboat to cruise around the canals on. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. When David contacted me at the beginning of January about the possibility of featuring Nighttime on Still Waters in one of his vlogs, I was initially very divided about it. Ive also heard it said that most people are right-handed thus their right hand is on the tiller so they stand on the left hand side of the boat; therefore when passing another boat coming towards you, both skippers will be on the side thats nearest to the oncoming boat.A recent comment on my vlogs also explained that the steering board on ships of old would be on the right (hence the term starboard for right) and boats would put into port on the left (hence the term port for left hand side). Besides, the name, provides an important centring connection between the boat and mum, which I felt - and still do feel, functions as a helpful reference point. David Alan Johns (born 15 July 1956) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Which guide books do you use?I use Nicholsons Guides because some of those were on the boat when I bought it so Im used to them. Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2022. He works with people so well. Why dont you put maps in your videos?Im not convinced that if I show a map with a location marked it would necessarily help anyone who didnt already know where it was to know where I was. David continues his cruise north along the River Soar, wears a funny hat because it's cold, and turns from the Soar onto the River Trent rather briefly, before joining the Trent & Mersey canal to head east across the UK. Its fairly foolish to do so though, so most people will either try it out with friends whove done it before, pay for narrowboat experience days, or even go on a one or two day RYA Inland Waterways helmsmans course. What video gear do you use?See my gear page! Thirdly, its not uncommon to drop a windlass into the canal by accident and it would be a very expensive mistake to do that with a cordless drill! May rain casting rings on thrashed water,The flash of fin, And a watery thunder That rumbles along the side of the hull. Unfortunately theres no charging infrastructure on (most of) the canals so yes youd also need a generator of some sort even if thats just the engine standalone diesel gennys are ridiculously expensive and a massive battery bank which is expensive, weighty and requires maintenance. Johns calls his 239 videos the diary of my life afloat. just aisles with food on shelves. You can follow David on Twitter and Facebook. Actually, Donna had been watching Cruising the Cut before we had even thought about thinking of maybe living on a boat. Then he turns around and starts back but with a diversion for his narrowboat along the delightful Wendover Arm. Besides, a visit from David Johns deserves nothing less. He also meets up with some new friends, also narrowboaters. Besides, I like being anonymous, that most of the people amongst whom I live and work have no idea that I podcast. David continues his cruise north along the River Soar, wears a funny hat because it's cold, and turns from the Soar onto the River Trent rather briefly, before joining the Trent & Mersey canal to head east across the UK. 4. The Umbrella Solution He travels slowly and peacefully around Great Britain's historic and still-active canals. Secondly, without some kind of clutch mechanism, the drill would crunch the paddle gear into the end stop and ultimately this would cause wear on it, which costs the CRT money to repair or Back in 2015, the UK television news reporter David Johns was very unhappy with his personal and professional life. This gets stirred up each time a boat goes by and then hangs in the water so it looks dirty.The CRT do dredge parts of the canals occasionally but its an expensive business so sadly there isnt enough dredging done. There are a number of companies producing this type of box. How much easier it would be if you could steer your boat with remote control! We do get lots of houseflies and occasional wasps etc but theyre just the normal summertime pests. An episode in which David experiences the most glorious week of narrowboating he's had to date as he travels up the River Avon from Tewkesbury to Stratford-Upon-Avon, including a trip down memory lane to his childhood. Perfect to sit back and watch with your favorite gin and tonic! I really have very few fixed plans such is the joy of the narrowboating life so Ill tell you now: I dont know! As for voting, you can vote by post or by proxy and (Im told) either declare an affiliation with a particular area of the country and vote there, or if you still own a bricks-and-mortar home, you vote wherever it is. Roughly. The sandwich default is un-heated in any way. A sort of surprise that they look the same, but also out of place, like seeing your teacher in a karaoke competition - something, I should say, which has never happened to me, so I have no idea why that example popped into my mind. An episode in which David encounters dogs on and even in the canal, spots some new canal-building work in Milton Keynes, and has a small diesel leak. Nothing fast paced here and that is fine with us. A narrowboat needs only 1-2kW to move along (once it has begun moving) thus a 20kWh battery pack could sustain 5-10 hours travel (presuming standard lead-acid tech ie 50% drawdown before recharge) and presuming the battery is not used for anything else aboard (though in reality most electric-focused boats use it for domestic purposes as well so the battery and solar system has to support that too)However, solar is not so reliable in the UK. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. It's not just the equipment - all I do is step up my laptop and microphone! A thruster could come in handy for tight spots in some marinas but generally its not a necessary item but a luxury so its not on my must have list. It's not unlike full-time RVing, which is what I am currently doing as a solo, but without having to deal with all those locks en-route! This is niche, its not for everyone, but you and I like it, and that's enough for me. Firstly, its unlikely a cordless drill would have sufficient power; a lot of the mechanisms can be very stiff indeed hence needing a decent length of handle on the windlass to get the appropriate leverage. Also, how do you manage to talk coherently in front of a camera? At a push, I will eat pickle in it as well but its not something I add by default.And no, the sandwich is not grilled, that seems to be an American thing. This is best series if you want to learn about narrow-boating. [4][5][6] He later wrote a stage version of the film updated to the 2021/2022 cost of living crisis which will be premiered at the Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne in May 2023. It's fun and quirky, partly because of the extremely simple production techniques, and a good example of the expanding range of genres far beyond movies or TV. [1], Johns has appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks (four times), 8 Out of 10 Cats, Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, 28 Acts in 28 Minutes and, as an actor, he has appeared on Mud, Time Gentlemen Please, Inspector George Gently, and Harry Hill as God. Explaining what is needed and why with sensitivity and clarity; guiding and supporting them, and most of all, knowing when to step back and leave the picture. Also, I dont like handing out my address for obvious reasons. The boat has very little space to store things and I prefer a minimalist, uncluttered, lifestyle. Plus the boat goes to Yelvertoft Marina to have its hull painted with bitumen, to keep the rust there at bay too. Ducks on the bank, dozed in the sunshine. Who would have thought one man on a narrowboat cruising the historic canals of England could be so entertaining and relaxing. Theyre really not designed for water thats not totally flat calm, and typically have holes in the hull (eg for sink waste outlets or engine cooling vents) just a few inches above the waterline so any waves could easily flood the boat. Hence its not generally advised! There's that boyish sense about him that I recognise from his vlog. Having survived the terror of Harecastle Tunnel, David now has the small matter of Heartbreak Hill, a very long series of canal locks to descend. Boats that move around do not since they are not resident in any council area. For a typical video which will have taken me a day to film plus two to three more days to script, edit and upload, I might earn maybe 20-30 ish for each 10,000 views it gets. As he reaches the final stage of his 2017 travels, two familiar faces pop up to help with the last strenuous leg down Hatton locks. He reflects on his former life. There is no need to be cold on a narrowboat. 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