Category: Canal Trips
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Top 10 Tips When Hiring a Narrowboat (2021)
Join as we discuss our Top Ten Tips when hiring a narrowboat. We’ve hired for several years now, and have come up with a list of various things that we think will help you when hiring a narrowboat, from bringing enough tea towels through to getting used to the fact everyone will think you’re a…
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Episode 16 – Lots of Locks
This is the final episode in our short trip down memory lane… re-visiting a trip on the Cheshire Ring, in the ABC hire boat Glaucous Gull. In this episode we encounter a lot of locks (too many to count!), and a little rainfall (but not enough to put us off our journey). Once again, here’s…
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Episode 15 – Catching A Lift
In this episode, we explore the Anderton lift as part of our canal journey around the Cheshire Ring, and moor up for a much welcomed barbecue. This video (as with all of our Cheshire Ring set) shows us on the Glaucous Gull, an ABC Hire boat. You can find ABC’s Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1QeIfJtTdgKNUa3VoiYv8A
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Episode 14 – Entering the Ring
This video comes from the archives (edited and posted here for the first time), this shows the first part of our journey around the Cheshire Ring. In this episode we start at Anderton Marina and make our way through Manchester.
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Episode 13 – Food, Glorious, Food!
Today we have a special video, all about food – as well as some of the trials and tribulations of trying to cook on a canal hire boat. In this episode, you will see: Scones, Fifteens (see here for more info on these amazing treats!), oat biscuits, rocky road, Eggs Washington(™) – Harry Special edition,…
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How To Operate A Lock
In this episode we explain how we operate a canal lock. We are obviously not experts but believe we are doing things correctly. Always check with the CRT (or your hire boat company) for “official” advice.
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Episode 11 – Return of the Boat
This is the final leg in our recent canal trip along the Kennet & Avon, with a little bit of mooring up to start, and a tranquil, chilled out journey to end. We had a very good time on the canal, and whilst this may be the last “journey” video, we have a few more…
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Episode 10 – There And Back Again
This, the 3rd episode from our recent trip along the Kennet & Avon Canal sees us travelling back along the River Avon, onto the canal, and then past Brassknocker Basin to Bradford-on-Avon. Along the way, we’ll experience a number of locks (including Bath Deep Lock, aka The Coffin Lock, the second deepest across the entire…
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Episode 9 – Avon Calling
In this, the second episode of our Bath to Bristol (and back) trip along the Kennet & Avon canal / Avon River, we spend some time negotiating river locks, and Bristol Floating Harbour. We come across several rowers, persistent swans, and a bridge with holes in it.