And cheese sandwiches ...

Don’t need a kitchen to make a cup of tea. Just stick a kettle in the back.

@@davidelliott5843 and when wife makes sandwiches and tea/coffee while you driving/piloting you can still chat if you have electric/hybrid boat...

Exactly. Lol

The Americas got a late start on the canal business, which means what canal remain are the large scale industrial kind that would not be ideal for recreational living like what the narrow boat canals of the UK.

Wouldn't work on Russian rivers between the flat bottom that requires very calm water and nowhere near enough power to deal with currents. You need a keel and a bit of power. A small old river barge would be ideal to build on.

@@paulie-g nonsense, my boy. Yes, big rivers need boat side be higher and more powerful engine. But keel? Not really. 57 feet narrowboat weight about 15 tones. And OP wants wide beam. Which mean even more weight in the bottom of the boat. Then there is ballast...and interior furniture, furnishings, ect... If you find cheap hull, yes you can use the barge hull too, but it is not necessary.

Agreed! David has a past in regional news television and really shows it here. Great little repotage piece, this, and I hope we'll get to see a bit more of that in the future. He's properly good at it(!).

Cheers from northern Japan. You might take a look at William Least Heat Moon's account of his cross-continental travels in his book "River Horse." ...and become inspired!

They would have even more space if they build bunk beds lol.

groan

Could be tricky with water seals ! I did wonder about a double-decker where the top deck slides off the back to become a 'trailer' for going through tunnels. And then when you need shortness for locks, you stack !

Possibly because the engine room on both narrowboat and wide beam are the same? This vlog was about the differences in space.

Derek Elliott It wasn't long enough? Surely 65 feet is more than ample....

I agree with you it was not long enough.

Move to the Mississippi river!

Where did you move to?

... and Eric.

Same here, and I'm truly ensorcelled. I'm afraid that by the time I get my wife and I onto one and over there, that there won't be enough room or welcome in the canals. I'm a professional ship builder and I'd like to stick the two together, but I'm also afraid of going from being an non-boat-owning ship builder in the U.S. to being a non-boat-owning ship builder in England. I'd love to slap a disarmed 22mm AA canon on the top of one for looks ;)

Glad you like it ... but I've been putting out videos throughout winter so far!

@@CruisingTheCut Well darn UKposts; I haven't gotten notifications! Heading over to the channel to see what I've missed, although, I am still working my way through older videos and I keep losing my place! At any rate, I love the cruises, whether they are in chronological order or not; it gets me through the winter

That'll be Scotland then, no English canals north of (or even up to) Newcastle...

Thank you

Cheers but this is an old video!

@@CruisingTheCut Certainly from February, just not this one unfortunately! :( Thankfully I only just started watching, so I have a few years of footage to catch up on lol!

It’s not that hard to understand, basically someone who has scraped a basic living on a narrow boat by choice for years and years in a traditional way probably would be prone to a perspective that isn’t too forgiving on these two. They could be viewed as basically rich people living the “good” life by blocking up the canals because they want a boat the size of an apartment. It can’t even navigate the network because it so large. They don’t want to give up their space so think I will just have a nice huge boat, because I’m rich and can so good for me. If every one had a huge boat the canals would be screwed but they can’t and may choose not to because the canal is really suited to narrow boats but we do want one.The point about a huge boat historically being on the canal is limited. Just because an exceptionally large boat operated probably for commercial reasons doesn’t mean everyone could say for example operate a boat that size because it would ruin the canals. That’s the same as here, narrow boats are in existence on the canal and called narrow because they needed to be! These wide beam boat owners will be seen by some as sticking two fingers up and saying I’m all right jack look at my kitchen the size of house and I throw party’s good for me. I can see why “traditional” narrow boaters will view them extremely unfavourably, they probably won’t be accepted by some and disliked by certain sections as rich professionals clogging up the network to live “their dream” by moving an apartment on to the water. That’s my guess on the issues. I personally have never been on a canal boat let alone lived on one but it’s easy to see the potential issues. As a comment said above it’s basically a class war.

I will do, if lockdown ever ends

@@CruisingTheCut I think the UK will start easing the lockdown by end of May. I am in Alberta, Canada and they are easing lockdown starting this Monday and gradually reopening most businesses by mid May. We started our lockdown 5 days before the UK. I think restaurants and pubs will remain 50% capacity for a while.