Sunny First Weekend Away of 2024
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- We take our Freeman 23 Marji Bee away for our first weekend of 2024 and had so much fun. The sun shone, I mended my "drinks bell", we were recognised, we didn't see the aurora, a widebeam barge blocked the River Thames, and we had a lovely lunch at Buscot Tearooms!
This is really inspirational, thank you! We’re looking into getting a cruiser for the Nene and the Freeman 23 looks like a real contender. It’s great to see Marji Bee looking so well and enjoying a trip up the river. Great channel too, thank you!
Thank you! F23s are a fantastic boat for sure. Classic, beautiful, and reliable too! And as Kenneth Grahame wrote in Wind in the Willows, “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”. He was definitely right!
Love the videos,the boat looks really well.i have a Freeman 33 in South Yorkshire.Lovely boats.
Thank you so much. Seeing comments like this make making the videos worthwhile! 😊 Very jealous of the extra space you have in your 33. Marji Bee is very compact and cosy inside!
Love the bell 😂
Glad you had a good weekend out
Thank you. It was great to be out again! 😊
Loved this latest treat. Sorry we missed you! Unfortunately, though, Peter now realises what that bell is for. Grrrrr! 😅❤❤
But what else could it be for? 🤷♂️I’m guessing it will be the “Prosecco Bell” on DP! 😂😂
Yes, I’m thinking every hour will be Prosecco o’clock! 😂
Bonjour. Maintenant on peut dire que la saison des croisières est officiellement lancée. Merci pour ces magnifiques paysages. Madame a parfaitement compris la signification de la cloche du bord 😂. Prenez soin de vous. Amitiés. Olivier.
Thank you again for your very kind words Olivier. Madame was definitely in on the bell joke! 😊
My wife and I had a Freeman boat on Thje Norfolk Broads, unfortunately we sold it because it had that awkward gear stick on the floor, nobody told us there was a kit that could be bought to change it. Last year my wife passed away and I am thinking of buying another oat at it would get me out and about amongst boat people who are very friendly.I really do like your video's thank you.I
We love the kick shift for the gears. It leaves your hands free for steering and throttle. It took me mere minutes to get used to it.
So sorry to hear of your loss, but please do consider getting back out on the water again. It is so good for relaxing your body, mind, and soul. 🥰
A most relaxing video, thanks for posting. And two very relaxed sea dogs.
Glad you enjoyed it! And yes, the boys love their trips out and wee look after them well. The gang plank is for their benefit rather than ours!
Love watching your calm and relaxing videos boating on the Thames. We are boaters in Puget Sound in the US Pacific Northwest. A very different experience on some levels and the same on others.
So glad you find our videos relaxing. That is exactly the emotion I am trying to relay! 🥰 We have holidayed in an RV over on Vancouver Island and whale watched from Telegraph Cove. I guess that (Vancouver Island) is relatively close? Those waters are beautiful and relaxing in a different way. You are way more likely to see Orca than we are anyway!
The Canadian Gulf Islands, including Thetis Island where Telegraph Cove is located, are a continuation of the US San Juan Islands (or vice versa) that are between Vancouver Island and the mainland. We have seen Orcas several times.
Took a look and enjoyed the vlog very much. Been watching narrowboats for some time now and have enjoyed them very much. However it's good to see a boat more to my knowledge and experience. I'm from Boston Ma USA and a boater in the past. Love the humor. Thanks
There is a big difference between narrow boating in the UK and river cruising. There are so many narrowboat vlogs and channels here, but so few raiser channels like ours, especially on the Thames. Hopefully I am setting the bar that others will follow and try to exceed! 😊
Lovely video Marji Bee looking great cant wait to get my 23 back on Lough Derg new Engine been fitted at the moment
Thank you. Best if luck getting yours back in the water. 👍🏻
Love your videos! And Marji Bee! I think I might use that Classic Freeman handrail hardware on a project of mine.
Thank you!
Freeman handrails can be bought from Sheridan Marine. They provide pretty much every Freeman spare you could wish for!
www.sheridanmarine.com/category/handrails
Beautiful day beautiful trip that lunch looked soo enticing.
Thanks for posting great ride along
Thank you so much. I hope you are referring to the ploughman’s rather than the jumbo sausage and fries ( although is was flippin’ tasty! 😂😂)
super cool
Thank you! 😊
DRINK DRIVING
You can drink but you can’t be drunk! 🤔
Pretty certain the only bird of prey that can hover like that is a kestrel.
I thought so too, but it just looked a little large and clumsy! Fun to watch hunting whatever it was tho!