It's also not great to leave your mast down from a technical point of view, because raindrops will collect on the 'bottom' when it's horizontal and 'eat up' the varnish and water will get into the mast.

Absolutely brilliant conditions! Reminds me of my first big sailing race. I had to give it all and was absolutely knackered after 4 hours on the Kagerplassen. Nothing beats this.

Kudos for those incredible drone shots with the mist, sunrise and the geese!

Thanks Canice, great video again! Following you since last year doing the strontrace. Maybe next year you will join a beurtveer ship and make another great documentary? FYI on Thursday morning also Beurtveer ships came sailing back. Thanks for capturing us! 😃

I do love the fact that we in The Netherlands have managed to preserve so much of our maritime heritage. The amount of historic live-aboards i run into on a daily basis, people like in the Open Air Museum bringing these fishing boats back from the dead, brilliant events such as the Strontrace, SKS... Currently I'm working on rebuilding a lelieschouw: another historic type designed especially for the Dutch Sea Scouts. The first ten were built out of wood, still two or three remain, the other 80 have been built out of steel.

I've heard of shit=faced sailors, but the Dutch take it to a whole other collective level. Love your travels to the Nederlands. Thank you Canice.

Pony!? What pony? More likely that wife and children pulled the boats

Canice, you have done it again. Now I could be talking about making another amazing video, or that you jinxed the fisherman's luck. You decide! Either way thank you for this wonderful depiction of how we should live life to the full.

Can't believe you're at this point, so not sure how you feel: I'm guessing tired? Always great to vicariously rebuild a boat.

Question: how does a narrowboat travel from one "canal" to another ? On the map they don't seem all connected - or maybe I am just naive . Hope you can help.

Are you not secretly of Dutch descent, Canice? Very good video about the traditional Dutch fleet.

I really enjoyed this extra-long video with your great story about the Strontrace, Visserijdagen and Beurtveer and the building of the MK20 Jol. Really nice!

You have some great friends from the Netherlands, Canice. Is there some kind of shop where I could get some? 🤔😂 What a fantastic hour long documentary you put together. Very professional and an interesting watch. Thanks.

What a wonderful collaboration between craftsmen! Beautiful, always great to see my country through somebody else’s lense. Makes you appreciate more what you sometimes take a bit for granted. Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱!

Excellent! That's one of life's experiences, thanks for sharing

You blurring out the drill on the oarlock repairs is one of the many reasons I keep coming back ha

Well done on your beard :) Another excellent video.

Canice, your last video on the Dutch fishing expedition. It would be worthy of a team of professional film-makers. Excellent narration, great editing and cinematography, especially the drone shots. And I especially like your interest in your fellow-fishermen. You have a great knack of telling a story. Well done, Joe Flanagan

Welcome back! Well worth the wait. This was great. It was nice to see you run into old friends. Maik, Justus and Maren (hopefully spelling is right). The historic village was beautiful. Netherlands is definitely on my bucket list with the beautiful videos you have done, though I am not sure about going out on the fishing boat, not sure I could handle that. The filming/editing was great and, most of all, the relationships that you have established with the boating community there. Their tourist board should hire you!!! So glad you accepted a sponsorship. The Jackery looks like it will be very helpful working on Linda! Good work my friend! 🥇 😊🤗 Kathy

Beautiful wooden fishing boats. With dry bilges! Very interesting video. Makes me want to visit the Netherlands

Absolutely beautiful video Cannice, loved it mate. Keep doing those Dutch historical docs, they need to be captured while the Dutchies still have the energy and dedication to keep those lovely vessels going.

What an adventure.. great editing and processing. Canice the producer, director, actor.. fish?

Good to see the capitain,he is back! ,I was worried.I love your channel,always a pleasure to see the life arround you! 💖

Of course I am in school now and can’t watch till 5 pm tonight..just great… thanks Canice…lolololololol

3 Canices (boxed), how interesting..... I also noticed Jackery have got around the hammering noises of power generation from 100 years ago, We recently bought a power station and panels, they are fantastic, ours being for a motorhome, but I can recommend anyone thinking about it, they really do work well. Great video, it looks like good fun, and the boats are lovely, almost Clog like

9:20 CAN ICES Nice coincidence :)

Nice movie about the Strontrace. I sail the Championships on skûtsjes on the Verwisseling. You should check out their videos, they also compete in the Strontrace but it is a whole different race on board the Verwisseling.

I hope your week gets better ;)

That was great! Really enjoyed watching this vlog. Thank you.

Hi Canice this makes a change from boat work , Good to see people enjoying the Day.

Fabulous video Canice! I always enjoy these traditional activities...this, I'm sure is a tiny fleet compared to that which would have existed back in the early 1900s. The overhead shots made MK20 look the same shape as a Dutch clog! Great commentary too. When do you plan for Devrouwe Linda to enter this event? Keep up the good work...excellent!

Wonderful, beautiful! Thank you sooo much Canice :-)

Great film! Beurtveer next year? ;)

What's not to like there? A tram, lots of sailing and messing around in boats. 06:49 --Am I famous yet? 😁 I really like the design of MK 20. It looks to me like a 17th century ship's boat, with its broad, rounded bow, and narrow stern. No pirates though. Okay, maybe by inference--the kind of pirate that inhabits Davie Jones' Locker and pulls nets to the sea floor. You-Know-Who would probably count that sort among his friends. This video must have taken hours to edit, but well worth it. Nice visuals, a story well told.

Very picturesque does the village only date from the 40s superb interiors 🙌

Stayed a night at Hindeloopen during the summer. Loved it. We almost cried when you had to cut the net🥹

Great video Canice. It was worth waiting a few weeks without my Sunday treat

6:19 note the pillar box on the back of the old tram

Another wonderful film. Such beautiful boats.

I was just thinking about you!

Thanks, Canice. Thoroughly enjoyed that!

Shitweek? Oh well, what is in a name, right? 😂 That said, old trades need to be protected, and that is where museums come in. You can find them in most provinces.

Hello Beardy, and love the arf-arf moustache! We are really impressed with your level of technology. You are going to end up with the most amazing boat. GREETINGS FROM THE CANAL DU MIDI (arf-arf)

Very impressive. I had a boiler installed onto my boat about a month ago. Boiler guy nearly went through rotten decking so 26stone (honestly 26st) boiler had to be tugged round at high tide by the marina. State of the art boiler but it still comes down to me with a broom handle and a marker pen to gauge how much kerosene is left in the 1929 tank. On a slightly different subject I overdid the amount of bicarbonate soda and citric acid combo down the toilet....what resulted was an explosion of historic excrement! Fixed with better pipe attachment, newfound love of jubilee clips and appreciating my 'one more spoon for luck rule ' shouldn't apply to citric acid:)

We are so happy for your progress and success!

Enda appeared to fix his binoculars on something🔭, time at sea and thirsty, overcome by previous memories, visions of Ramsgate's🤣 go-go bars certainly saw him celebrating in some style at the thought! Must have ate too many Oysters 😂

At least with your new batteries you could convert to 24 or 48v system should you want to. I love my LiFePO batteries, much better than my old lead ones

You did the repairs over the river opposite my house I love living by the river & your route is where I walk along I recognise it & my road.

Great video and progress again Canice. Do you have any concerns about water in the header tank freezing as it is outsde the warm living area?

The beard looks flash!