Narrowboat Vloggers

That Jekka Gal · 16 Aug 2025 at 14:04

Does anyone else follow any of these? I find some of them very relaxing.

There are plenty to choose from but the 2 I enjoy most are Country House Gent and Cruising the Cut. The latter, I believe, is an ex TV pro & his output reflects that.

Some are really bad though - there's a pair of guys who pose as a comedy double act & several who insist on playing an annoying backing track through all their videos.

The 2 I mention say no more than needs to be said & leave you to enjoy the tranquility of the cut. Perfect viewing before lights out.

uvarvu · 16 Aug 2025 at 19:31

I do: https://m.youtube.com/@mykaskin/videos. He helms a lovely Royalty class narrowboat named Victoria.

That Jekka Gal · 16 Aug 2025 at 20:14

uvarvu said:
I do: https://m.youtube.com/@mykaskin/videos. He helms a lovely Royalty class narrowboat named Victoria.

Nice, will have a watch later.

Here are links to the 2 referenced above:

CountryHouseGent

The first 6 seasons of Travels By Narrowboat are available on Amazon Prime, with Season's 7, 8, 9 and 10, exclusively on this YouTube channel. In Travels by Narrowboat, I journey along the UK canal system aboard my narrow boat 'Aslan' (links below), visiting new places, viewing fabulous scenery...

youtube.com

CruisingTheCut

Cruising The Cut is about the historic canals of Britain. I (David Johns) quit my job in 2015, sold my house and went to live on a narrowboat. Initially videos of my travels, I now document various aspects of canal life. Web https://www.CruisingTheCut.co.uk Twitter...

youtube.com

Cern · 16 Aug 2025 at 22:09

I love watching these, they're a perfect de-stresser. Cruising The Cut is where it all started, I think he pretty much pioneered the format. There's loads of narrowboat vloggers now. I've followed quite a few different ones over the years.

It seems a pretty tough life. I've often felt I'd like to give narrowboat life a go, seems a good community to be part of. But when you watch these vloggers you realise that the amount of things that can, and do, go wrong on a narrowboat is pretty immense.

Here's a few channels which might be of interest if you haven't already seen them:

Holly - The Cafe Boat

We're Joanna and Victor, narrowboat nomads creating a cafe boat on the cut! Follow us as we journey the canals of Britain in search of a new way of life.

www.youtube.com

Floating Our Boat

We are Fran and Rich and in 2018 we had a complete lifestyle change. Tired of working for others we took the plunge and bought a canal narrowboat to explore Britain's inland waterways. Now, six years on, we have a new boat - Laura Maisie to continue our adventures. Our vlogs show how we live our...

www.youtube.com

Ben and Emily

We're Ben and Emily! We live full time in our self converted ex-ambulance camper Ronnie traveling the UK and beyond!

www.youtube.com

Julie & Martin on Rhapsody in Blue

In 2021 we bought our NARROWBOAT floating home Rhapsody in Blue. We live aboard full-time & continuously cruise the UK Inland Waterways, come with us, as we share our cruising journeys, wildlife, scenery & bridge reflections! We’re living our dream and hope our slow pace of life shows in our...

www.youtube.com

Tales From The SwansNeck

Hi I'm Andrew and welcome aboard Narrowboat Reverie. Along with my partner Val we live a simple minimalistic off-grid lifestyle cruising some of the 2300 miles of the UK's inland waterways. We produce slow-TV : beautifully filmed and edited scenes of the peace and tranquillity this lifestyle...

www.youtube.com

Robbie Cumming

Welcome onboard the Naughty Lass, my 42ft narrowboat home - as we crank it on as many of the canals and rivers of the UK as we can. Real boat life, exploring local towns and cities, and always on the lookout for ‘Pub of the Week’! ~ My boat ~ Built 1981 by John South for Starline Narrowboats...

www.youtube.com

That Jekka Gal · 17 Aug 2025 at 20:23

Cern said:
I love watching these, they're a perfect de-stresser. Cruising The Cut is where it all started, I think he pretty much pioneered the format. There's loads of narrowboat vloggers now. I've followed quite a few different ones over the years.

It seems a pretty tough life. I've often felt I'd like to give narrowboat life a go, seems a good community to be part of. But when you watch these vloggers you realise that the amount of things that can, and do, go wrong on a narrowboat is pretty immense.

Here's a few channels which might be of interest if you haven't already seen them:

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Floating Our Boat

We are Fran and Rich and in 2018 we had a complete lifestyle change. Tired of working for others we took the plunge and bought a canal narrowboat to explore Britain's inland waterways. Now, six years on, we have a new boat - Laura Maisie to continue our adventures. Our vlogs show how we live our...

www.youtube.com

Ben and Emily

We're Ben and Emily! We live full time in our self converted ex-ambulance camper Ronnie traveling the UK and beyond!

www.youtube.com

Julie & Martin on Rhapsody in Blue

In 2021 we bought our NARROWBOAT floating home Rhapsody in Blue. We live aboard full-time & continuously cruise the UK Inland Waterways, come with us, as we share our cruising journeys, wildlife, scenery & bridge reflections! We’re living our dream and hope our slow pace of life shows in our...

www.youtube.com

https://www.youtube.com/@talesfromt...https://www.youtube.com/@RobbieCumming/videos

Robbie Cumming has/had his own show on TV called Narrowboat Diaries. Not sure if it's still on but will ceratinly check out your links.

Cern · 17 Aug 2025 at 21:53

That Jekka Gal said:
Robbie Cumming has/had his own show on TV called Narrowboat Diaries. Not sure if it's still on but will ceratinly check out your links.

Yeah, Season 6 was recently released on U.

Feek · 29 Aug 2025 at 14:05

Betty on a boat.

spile · 30 Aug 2025 at 07:59

Enjoy Narrowboat Diaries and although not as engaging, Narrow Escapes is fun too.

BUDFORCE · 30 Aug 2025 at 17:33

I had a couple of Narrow boat holidays and they are fantastic.

It's hard to describe but the pace if life and everything is so relaxing, and the scenery constantly changes.

We found a spot just before Llangollen on that canal, really pretty side of a hill with castle ruin up the other side, walked into town and got some sausages, I picked a load of wild garlic that was growing on the bank, threw that in with the sausages in a tray and roasted them. Mmmmmmmmmm.

That Jekka Gal · 30 Aug 2025 at 20:17

BUDFORCE said:
I had a couple of Narrow boat holidays and they are fantastic.

It's hard to describe but the pace if life and everything is so relaxing, and the scenery constantly changes.

We found a spot just before Llangollen on that canal, really pretty side of a hill with castle ruin up the other side, walked into town and got some sausages, I picked a load of wild garlic that was growing on the bank, threw that in with the sausages in a tray and roasted them. Mmmmmmmmmm.

That's called ransomes round theee parts. Did you throw in the bulb or just the leaves?

BUDFORCE · 30 Aug 2025 at 21:02

That Jekka Gal said:
That's called ransomes round theee parts. Did you throw in the bulb or just the leaves?

I honestly can't remember was 10 years ago.

We went on another one after.

The first one was Wrenbury to Llangollen on the Llangollen canal, was bloody beautiful, only thing it was busy. Was bloody beautiful though.
Going over the Pontysomething aqua duct, and the long tunnel after etc, but all of it was stunning.

Second was Anderton the Chester, on the Shropshire Union canal, was still good but not quite as scenic, but a lot less traffic though.

We will have do another one at some point.

That Jekka Gal · 30 Aug 2025 at 22:35

BUDFORCE said:
Going over the Pontysomething aqua duct, and the long tunnel after etc, but all of it was stunning.

I've seen that on the various vlogs I watch on YouTube. Definitely not for vertigo sufferers!

spile · 31 Aug 2025 at 08:06

We owned a 47’ NB for a number of years and traveled as far north as Skipton and south as Devizes. After selling it we hired boats to cruise landlocked waterways and those that we missed. Great fun but definitely not a cheap lifestyle.