107. Narrowboat journey from Stourport to Hawford Junction (Droitwich Barge canal) - River Severn
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
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At last there's a sunny day and despite the wind it's time to take the narrowboat off the canal and onto the mighty River Severn. Eventually I'll go to Tewkesbury but today it's only to the entrance of the Droitwich Barge Canal at Hawford Junction.
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Theme music: "Vespers" by Topher Mohr and Alex Alena, from the RUclips music library
That house is to die for. Beautiful.
Thanks David, my Sunday is now complete.
Pretty day for a cruise. Thanks David.
I want to express my enjoyment of your adventures on the UK Canal System. The scenery is beyond just beautiful, it is magnificent. Your narrative of the adventure is also appreciated.
Thanks - wait till I go up the Avon (next few vlogs); it was a gloriously sunny week and stunning scenery.
devastatingly serene. I am secretly drawing up plans for my narrowboat. no idea how soon I'll be able to implement but these california summers are firming my resolve.
That pub, that house, those boats.....what a lovely vlog. Thank you, David.
:-)
You do have a wonderful life, I enjoy your vlog style and feel like I am on the boat . You are really one of the best you tubers. Thanks for the ride
Thank you!
lovely aerial views of the cut! sorry lol
jeezz all that navigation to get to a river! nice one!
it is so relaxing but with a touch of adventure and history all rolled into one great blog cheers
I enjoy your videos so much! Educational, tongue in cheek humor and love seeing the countryside, animals and birds you share. Thank you again from Minnesota, USA.
Awesome video David, you just made my boring Sunday a little better.. thank you for sharing :-)
Thanks again for another lovely video
Another great video. I've just put a deposit down on a boat and I'm now waiting for the survey so today I've been watching your early videos again as a reminder of what's to come, it's all very exciting. There's some excellent information on your channel for boat novices like myself so a massive thank you for that. Owning a boat was just a dream for me until I started to watch you and the Narrowboat Experience girls. Since then I've hired several boats and now I'm going to own one! I really can't believe it. I am so grateful.
Sylvia, that's fantastic news - so exciting for you. Congratulations! Hope the survey turns out well. Best wishes!!
Here I am enjoying a cup of coffee on a nice quiet Sunday morning, looking back at some of your earliest episodes (in the teens), and a new episode pops up. Very enjoyable and thanks for posting.
Fair winds.
Excellent! Cheers
Thanks D, saved this one to watch after a long day on CAD... Nice to unwind watching life as it should be lived!
Brilliant.
Good to hear :-)
Lovely Video David, Thank you and Cheers
lovely area David and nicely filmed thanks
Another ten brownie point, thankyou.
A very nice river and lovely to see it so quiet for a change. And a sneaky little reference to Robbie Cummings as well ;)
Thanks David. Nice vlog as usual and also interesting. Look forward to the next one. Good luck..
Very enjoyable...You are a lucky man..
So kind of you, David, to post this vlog just as we're about to follow in your footsteps! What a gentleman! We know exactly what to expect now.
Glad to oblige :-) More of the Severn in the next-but-one vlog when I head down to the Avon.
I did enjoy the puppy dog!! Best Wishes!!
Love looking at the locks and listening to and watching one day I'll have a long boat or a house boat . Thank you for the opportunity to remember the past with my grandparents
Cheers Ethan
The Severn is very beautiful. Enjoyed the sights...Thanks, again.
Just wait 'til I get to the Avon :-)
As usual another fascinating video from CTC! I enjoy the consistent quality of these videos, thanks!
Thanks Peter
Great video as always. 😀👍
Really enjoyed the "thoughts of the large passenger boat Captain" as you strayed to his side while filming the pretty house. Love your humor!
Thank you!
A lovely way to start my morning...
Thank you Sir for doing these.
Cheers Doug
that's not bad... great job!
England is certainly looking gorgeous What a relaxing picturesque countryside on a narrow boat. Driving by in a automobile does not allow you the same feel of the countryside. Cheers from New Jersey!
Just noticed I put Wales not England. However both are beautiful areas. My grandparents were from Wales/Ireland but have lost all family connections as they have died in 1980s.
I was so pleased to see you'd put this one up tonight. Just what I needed, thanks. Lovely reminder of our trip down and up the Severn last year
:-)
the severn is huge. maybe you stopped here www.google.com/maps/@52.2679322,-2.1368802,19.58z
Nope, wrong location.
Thanks for posting your videos. I love watching them as I love watching the scenery as you meander up and down the waterways. It's my most relaxing time at the computer!
Good to hear :-)
at 10:28 I was a Mississippi River towboat cook (for 12 people who live on the tug-boat for 30 days at a time) and know from experience that a towboat would sink and flood if you tried that against any current. One must turn around, then back into the other river. with its current. otherwise the towboat would sink under the pressure. You are quite the navigator. these last few episodes have been amazing. you show so much of the inter -workings, the pubs, the cats are so cute and an ongoing theme love it! the lock workings...the skills... amazing show.
Thank you
James Davis you sir do not know what you are talking with the tug boat
And again David, it was a pleasure to travel with you on the river (via RUclips) this day as I had lunch. This all some what satiates my travel bug till I can plan and fund a trip. How wonderful you have it to see an every changing vista from your floating home.
It is wonderful indeed.
Thumbs up! Our hair was blown back with the fast-speed editing. Thanks for the Imax-like viewing experience. ~Maggie & Dave, VT US
"Imax like" hahaha, love it. Cheers
Tea ,cake and a great vlog happy Sunday afternoon 😊 thanks .
:-)
Nice nod to Meatloaf and to Robbie. What's next for Cruising the Cut? ♫Pub of the weeeek♫? Haha. Beautiful video, as per usual, though it does look as though that wind was putting up a good fight. Once again, I'm looking forward to the next installment. Happy cruising!
I enjoyed that :) My wife and I went from Stourport to Gloucester and back in July 1985, when we got back to Stourport we drove down to Ross-on-Wye listening to the live brodcast of the Live Aid concert. A fitting end to a very enjoyable adventure on the Severn!
A memorable day indeed, I remember the concert well :-)
Haha lets crank it, I love it
Massively impressed with how you navigated the basin maze and that tight turn into the lock
So was I!!
The Blue Heron casually river serfing gives me life. 💕
Love your videos, this is a beautiful area of the uk
It certainly is.
Very nice.
great shot of SURFING CRANE hang 3 baby!!
'The castle of doom' new book in store coming too all narrow boaters.
Very beautiful journey, love to see beautiful landscapes. Thank you for sharing your amazing video. God bless you and your family
Glad you liked it!
It's always fun to cruise the cut with you....even so vicariously!
The puns are back! Yayyy! Bl**dy marvellous vlog as always. Thank you
Loads more in store!
Nice to see the Severn on a nice sunny day. Much as I remember it from our summer 2016 trip down to Upton-upon-Severn. A lovely stretch. Nice to see some 'cranking it' too! :)
I felt the turn deserved it :-)
Another brilliant video. Always remember when dealing with awkward locks, winds etc that some on the cut apparently believe that you just go full throttle, crash into them and then (most importantly) blame the other party. Happy travels
Surely not!! ;-)
Loved to see your video with beautiful English houses alongside of the canal truly beautiful.
111 vids and I'm up to date. Really enjoy the channel and I forward to the next video
Thank you
Great video of travel, David. Great video in total cheers
Welcome my neck of the woods. My daughter has her narrowboat moored at Hanbury wharf just the other side of Droitwich. Great vlog as usual and the subscribed viewers on the increase.
I know the wharf well! Cheers
Spent loads of time in Stourport when young, 20-30 odd years ago even though I live in essex. Used to visit family every year for holidays. Lovely plce and excellent fishing, fished the park on the other side of the weir and that had good chub fishing from what I remember. We went back last year and stayed at lickhill manor caravan park which is a right turn from the basin up the river.
Always a pleasure, thank you.
Top rung once again hope you enjoy your visit with family and friends
I did, thanks!
VIC 99 (4:52) is clearly a sister of VIC 32, one of the few remaining "puffer" boats which we saw at the western end of the Crinan Canal last autumn. Timothy West & Prunella Scales featured it during their trip to the west of Scotland. You'd be too young to remember Para Handy!
Yup, too young but fascinated by what you've said - I shall look them up. Cheers!
Hi David, yet again another good vlog. It's good to see the Severn and the Droitwich canal .They are two waterways we have not been on yet. We cruised to Stourport, but turned in the marina, the side wind as you said was terrible.Look forward to the next vlog. Thank you. S.
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Great scenery, compared to Harvey ravaged Texas Coast.... we survived with only all trees gone, love the English house! Nice, thank you for the peaceful, serene distraction.... It was, believe it or not, therapeutic..... Cheers and God bless
Glad you're OK - shame about the trees but survival is what matters. Best wishes to all over there.
William Jordan good to hear you had only minor damage...my thoughts and prayers continue for all of you😏
rivers are nice to look at.
Great stuff. I like your intentional ‘Partridge’ from time to time. ‘Ahoy chatmates! Prepare to board HMS Canalan and give the ducks a ruddy good run for their money!’ A-HA!!!!!
What?! Where is Yul Brynner? Steve McQueen? Charles Bronson? This isn't The Magnificent Seven! No hardened gang of gun fighters fighting injustice in the American west.... just a lone ranger on a narrowboat in the UK. Clever title David - I enjoy your subtle humor and the videos of your continuing wild adventures in the West (Midlands). :)
Great vlog. Worth a few watches just to see that heron hanging 8. Excellent !
Thanks for the cruise,David.🇺🇸🇬🇧
Nice video, shows not everything is really narrow and almost overgrown.
The house at 8:00 scores a 10 on the quaint-o-meter
Very colour co-ordinated chap....
Impressive bit of waterway... but does somewhat look like one you could visit once and then not bother with again unless you had to. Some of the other stretches you've done have been far more scenic and enjoyable.
Kudos on that tight turn... imagine punting a 70' pair round that lot!
Agreed, the Severn is not a route I'd choose to return to, particularly. The Avon on the other hand (Shakespeare's Avon, not the one in Bath) is lovely as you will see :-)
Yet another great vlog they just get better and better. I'm heading down to Warwick next Saturday to pick up a narrow boat for 2 weeks with my partner my friend and her partner we cant wait to get back on the cut again.
I hope you have a terrific time! Two weeks is a decent amount to chill.
Looked like a beautiful day on the canals and river!
Alfy, it was terrific - and in a couple of vlogs time, when I go up the River Avon, you'll see it was non-stop sunshine and fantastic views!
Looking forward to seeing some of that virtual sunshine as we haven't had much here as you may have noticed! ha
Ha! Yes, it does seem to rain rather a lot in your neck of the woods!
Loved the English cottage style house. So fairy tale perfect. Wouldn't mind nosing about that property a bit. Just as fun as nosing about other peoples boats. Sans running into the big passenger boat.lol.⛵⚓🚤⚓🚤
Let's have a massive group of us turn up and demand to look around!
Good trip up the river ,enjoyed the trip with you. If you travel the rivers and have to have the rope feed through the rod you could look at using a fitting called a swivel eye snap which you slip the rope in the eye of the swivel and then use the eye snap to fit around the rod then you do not have to feed the rope around the rod. Enjoy your videos very much thank you.
Good tip, thank you.
Love the warning sign for the River Severn weir! Reminiscent of roadside maintenance in Southern California.
Thanks for another great video. I really enjoyed it.
There was a lot of variety here, making it super interesting.
The Severn River looks like a good place for a great variety of boats.
Glad you made it safely into a good mooring.
Cheers
Thanks Allen. The Avon is even more interesting, I think (in the next few videos)!
I suppose it not very often you get to open up the throttle fully to blow out the cobwebs!!!! Lovely vlog once again!!
'tis rare indeed
Having had a chance to watch a lot of your output - plus videos from others relating their experiences on the canals - it is obvious that yours are so much more professional than the rest. If you ever giving up canal boating, I suggest you try your hand at being a TV reporter...
Ha!!
Thanks for showing
Fantastic video keep em coming
More soon
Years ago you would have been passing many large vessels along the old Sabrina as this was a busy route between the Bristol Channel and the Midlands, large amounts of fuel was transported between Avonmouth and Stourport. These were large vessels owned by companies such as John Harker and this explains the large locks and in some places dual locks.
That was one beautiful house cc no wonder you were preoccupied with filming it! 😍👌🏻
:-)
Yes I agree this vlog is fantastic, I did the Gota Canal in Sweden last year in my boat, and when I was north of Gothenberg I got a panic when I had an ocean going sand /gravel carrier came at me leaving me with little or no room to pass phew I am still here, but it was a close call
That sounds buttock-clenchingly exciting!
Oy, that title. I do like their cleverness, even though some puns want me to throw something at you. 😃😎
Hahaha
Nice to see the old engine at full throttle.
Oh, that was barely above normal (1,300 rpm usually, 1,450 on that river)! Wellied it onto the pontoon at the end though :-)
I know that many sneer at them, but man are vectoring thruster pods wonderful things to have.
I'd have one if I could spec a boat from scratch, for sure!
Always look forward to your vlogs. Thanks David.
Another 12 min well spent!
:-)
Great vlog as always David.
Ta :-)
Ahh. A CTC vid. After a long weekend in Hunstanton with the in-laws this is what i need before work. Chair back,lean back,relax,full screen and a beer.
:-)
Bravo to your river steering. Stourport basins are bit of a zigzag. Lovely video David.
Enjoying the videos :D
Ta
Oh too be or not too be that is the question. Answer sit back and watch Davids vlogs all will be chillaxed..
That looks an interesting route :) I've been to the Stourport Basin before, but only on foot. May have a bit of a tricky manouvere into to that bottom lock in my 60' narrowboat though! Thanks for posting another great vlog!
There was a comment from someone else that they'd done it in a 70-footer though I wouldn't fancy it myself!!
I know you're tired of all this by now, but I do enjoy your narration from this era of your vlog. Whatever it is, it truly seems to work on me effectively.
Great Vlog David, Shame those Herons don't like the camera much. Keep up the awesome work.
I always found cruising the Severn relaxing after the tight confines of the canals. Stourport Basin can be a real trial though, but the secret seems to be not to be afraid to use the throttle to manoeuvre the boat, despite those tightly-packed plastic "targets." I once had to moor up on the river below the bottom lock there, as we arrived after the gates had been locked for the night, which was a bit of a worry.
There was no shortage of throttle in that breeze, I assure you!!
Great vlog as always!
That was a nice cruising vlog David :-)
Ta
If I was a lock-keeper, I'd certainly call my shed the *castle of DOOM* haha :) love the videos!
That looked quite enjoyable, I hope it was
It was.