Cruising the Cut

Season 2015

A documentary series following former UK television news reporter David Johns who quit his job, sold his house, bought a live-aboard narrowboat, and films his travels on the historic British canals.

Where to Watch Cruising the Cut • Season 2015

16 Episodes

  • How I Came To Buy A Narrowboat
    E1
    How I Came To Buy A NarrowboatEpisode 1 of my Narrowboat Vlog describes how I bought a canal boat almost by accident - or luck, I hope - when looking to do something more interesting in my life.
  • The Day That The Crane Came Down
    E2
    The Day That The Crane Came DownWith my offer on the canalboat accepted, it was now time for a full survey to see if the boat has any problems. What would Justin Green of JG Marine, Keith Meadowcroft of Voltmaster and George Marshall of Audlem Boat Company find? And, will the vendor accept any haggling on the price afterwards? This episode reveals all!
  • It's Mine, All Mine, My Preciousssss!
    E3
    It's Mine, All Mine, My Preciousssss!At last, the narrow boat is officially mine and I spent a day aboard just having a really good poke around and enjoying the fact that I've bought a boat. There's much to do onboard however...
  • Le Tour de Canal Boat
    E4
    Le Tour de Canal BoatVlog number 4 and this is a tour of my canalboat from top to tail. It's still on chocks at a marina whilst I line up some maintenance to be done on it but will hopefully take to the water again in a few weeks - just in time for winter!
  • Going Nowhere, Fast!
    E5
    Going Nowhere, Fast!It's now 3 weeks since the narrowboat became properly mine and yet I'm still not aboard and still not afloat. It's OK, there are various reasons for this. I knew it would take a little time. Oh my, but it's very frustrating!
  • Giving The Old Girl A Damn Good Service
    E6
    Giving The Old Girl A Damn Good ServiceAt long last the time has come for the excellent Justin Green of JG Marine to visit the boat and do lots of work on it including an engine service (oil, oil filter, air filter, fuel filter etc), add the Adverc charge controller, change the old engine mounts and much more.
  • PAINT SHOP BOYS
    E7
    PAINT SHOP BOYSNot content with my "patch it and hope" painting of the rusty spots along the gunwales of my canal boat as seen in the last episode, I decided to try to do it properly. This did not entirely come to fruition, as I explain.
  • NIGHT RIDER
    E8
    NIGHT RIDERVlog 8 and I spend my first night aboard the canal boat - still on land! There's all kinds of squeaks and groans and bumps in the night and they're not from me. No, it's nothing saucy, don't get your hopes up...
  • Maiden Voyage
    E9
    Maiden VoyageAfter months of waiting while my house was sold, the boat was fettled and lots of boring stuff was dealt with, it was finally time to relaunch my narrowboat into the canal and take it out for a quick trip!
  • CAPTAIN HOOK
    E10
    CAPTAIN HOOKIn which I take stock of a few things that need doing on the canal boat and then do them. This involves drilling, screwing, and a whole lot more entirely unnecessary yet amusing innuendo.
  • Power Mad
    E11
    Power MadA brief technical interlude before the video of the trip to Braunston because my battery charger packed up and suddenly the boat had no usable power. So in this video I explain how I diagnosed and resolved the problem.
  • Bring Out The Braunston
    E12
    Bring Out The BraunstonI was supposed to be taking the narrowboat to a winter mooring in Warwickshire but for reasons I explain in this video, I didn't. Instead of cancelling the trip though - as I had invited a friend along to show me how to do canalboating properly - we went for a two-day cruise to Braunston. This is the video of that trip.
  • The Lights Fanstastic!
    E13
    The Lights Fanstastic!It's rainy, cold and blowing a gale outside so I made a quick video about five simple things - three of them lightbulbs - that make my life nicer on board my canal boat!
  • Lock Bottom
    E14
    Lock BottomCome journey with me down into the depths of an English canal, to a lock at Banbury in Oxfordshire that was emptied for maintenance by the Canal and River Trust. Find out how the locks are maintained and what unusual things have been found at the bottom!
  • Solar Flair
    E15
    Solar FlairOnce the Spring arrives and I go out continuous cruising on the canals, I will need a way to generate electricity. Ideally this would be done without running the engine. Hence the installation of solar panels.
  • CRICK THINKING
    E16
    CRICK THINKINGA couple of weeks ago a friend of mine, a former colleague from my life in TV, came to visit and experience narrowboat life so we went for a cruise.

 

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