266 - Locks of Adventures on the Sheffield and Tinsley canal - Avoiding Disaster

[@mjallenuk]

Fabulously relaxing ... I don't mind a bit of industrial scenery. It has a charm of it's own and it makes those greener days seem all the more wonderful.

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! M

[@jamesnelick8574]

We love your Slow Mo lock flooding segments.

[@MinimalList]

Thank you.

[@kathsmith5064]

I used to run along the stretch from Tinsley viaduct to Rotherham and back 40 years ago, it did not look like that then. Great to see it now.

[@MinimalList]

I hope the video brought up some good memories

[@annie2950]

Relishing your great Canal vlogs while we can. Keep safe.xx

[@MinimalList]

Thank you. We Will.

[@jasonbrant6394]

Quite a mix of small manual locks and electric monsters. Yet another sunken grp making the cut look like a scrap yard . Hope you guys are virus free and enjoying life as best as you can . We waited 5 mnths to see skipton on the leeds Liverpool now all closed up . Maybe we'll stay til things calm down looks wonderful . Stay safe and carry on cruising.

[@maggiekavanagh2801]

Loved the shots of the robin, and George, bless him, waiting patiently with the ball in his mouth - too cute. And we were all in blissful ignorance of what was to come. Stay safe

[@MinimalList]

George is a good pup. And yes, the robin was a treat. I hope you are doing ok Maggie.

[@TheBoatingAdventure]

Thanks guys that was a bit of normality at the start of another long day. I have abandoned my boat. As much as I love it the thought of being stuck on it in a marina for goodness knows how long was too much. I'm being optimistic though and have made a shopping list of the things I need to replenish the boat ready for my next adventure, once we get the all clear I'm just gonna cruise for as long as I can. Take care you three. Alan x

[@lyns2626]

Another scenic vlog and again thanks for taking us along with you! Enjoyed Michael's cameo on The Narrowboat Experience's visit with Jono. :D Stay safe and well! Pats for George!

[@MinimalList]

Thanks for coming along for the ride.

[@AuntieSullivan]

So glad you have these vlogs to post! Jo, Michael, and George, I hope you all are well. I enjoyed Michael's vlogs on virii/viruses. During these times, and since COVID-19 is an issue world wide, I often think of my favourite series, "Star Trek the Next Generation". Perhaps we have defined life too narrowly. Perhaps entities that require life to replicate are also life? Thank you for being so willing to share your journeys with all of us. Best Regards, Marjorie.

[@andrewjohnson-hr6qv]

Thank you for sharing your cruise. Brilliant again.

[@MinimalList]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@andrewjohnson-hr6qv]

@@MinimalList It just shows with highlighted hang up that you can't afford to be complacent around locks

[@willsgetoff1157]

George was sitting so patiently waiting for you to take him over the field at the end bless him. The robin was beautiful, we have one visits the garden but would never come that close.

[@MinimalList]

Yes the robin was surprisingly tame and a real treat to see. George is a good dog sometimes.

[@christinegibbins6105]

Thank you both for taking the time to share your journeys with us. Take care.

[@elund408]

Poor George having to go into time out. Good to see you moving about again.

[@MinimalList]

Yep, me much prefers to be on the stern, or better still on the two path. Poor pup.

[@carolbeckham4338]

You work together as a great team well done

[@MinimalList]

Thank you!

[@SteamPunk-xp2uv]

Thanks for taking us along. Gray days, sunny days (rare as they are), rainy days, any day it always fun to ride along!

[@MinimalList]

Thanks for coming along, It's appreciated.

[@marianillingworth4403]

My favourite part of the vlog was the robin. My dad was known as Robin, he died 3 years ago but the bird always makes me think happy thoughts. Hope you are looking after yourselves. We’re not making plans for this year as like everyone we are living day to day.

[@danielkavanaugh4544]

Hang in there. Not much ya can do. I take the wife to the doctors office or go shopping though I miss swap meets and vehicle shows. Use to own a boat. Now I watch you and your boat cruising through the beautiful country side. At my age the locks would wear me out. Not that I'm over the hill. But at 70+ I sometimes think I can see the top. All the Best

[@davidgoodfellow7977]

At the end when your sat in kilnhurst it is literally down the road from where I live!!

[@davidsedlickas8222]

Hi Both nice to see and hear you both again in a vlog. Hearing you over music playing I recognised one as the theme music to " Grandpa's Kitchen " Keep safe and dry and virus free.

[@MinimalList]

Thanks. All the music in this vlog was from the KZbin creator library and by a band called 'Endless Love' if that is any help.

[@narrowboatersatlarge]

Most kingfishers we've seen so far on the system were along the river stretch around Aldwarke Lock. If you could have stayed there is a handy ASDA accessible from the canal just there too. Hope you're all well.

[@MinimalList]

It's a lovely stretch of River. We are we well thank you. I hope you are too.

[@christinewelch4918]

Thanks for a fun video to take our minds off of the virus craziness!

[@MinimalList]

Thanks for watching. :-)

[@djsoulUK]

You know you've got a keeper when she says "It turned out beautiful and we got a great view of the industrial buildings in Rotherham" hehe :) Thanks for another great video.

[@MinimalList]

Haha!

[@scottfw7169]

Color of water flow there during slow motion sequence at 6:42 brings champagne to mind but I suppose it would be impractical to fill a lock with champagne since it might get the paddles and gate hinges sticky with the sugary residue.

[@MinimalList]

Haha, yeah, i'm pretty sure its not Champagne. Eww.

[@navigator902]

Hey Michel and Jo...... and little George..... Hope all is well with you all and your little narrow ship... Fare seas to the crew of Minimal List.

[@daver425]

Thank you so much for your videos. I really enjoy watching your travels. I wish we had canals here in Minnesota. I'd have a narrowboat for sure. Be safe and we'll hope for a return to some sort of normalcy soon.

[@buss8009]

I had a Headache when I started watching this vid, but it quickly disappeared, and know I feel so relaxed. Thank you for a relaxing journey on the canals. It's my way of doing meditation I guess, watching you guys! Stay safe!

[@MinimalList]

Thank you, glad we could help. Even just a little bit.

[@mikehooz]

You already tasted Yorkshire with us - remember the Parkin ice cream? That lock-keeper was unusually pessimistic about how much progress can be made with good teamwork!

[@michaelhibbert4393]

Nice vlog guys....keep safe in these troubled times x

[@MinimalList]

Thank you! Will do!

[@robertkelley288]

Love the videos. Stay safe and keep on cruising.

[@anitablades6033]

Robbie, said the whole Country is shut down now!!!

[@davidapp3730]

Looked like a great day to cruise. I do not remember clear blue days like that when I lived in England. Stay safe during this difficult time.

[@MinimalList]

It was a lovely cruise. Thanks for following along.

[@Timanator]

Man didnt watch your channel for a few month and the video quality has gotten alot better!

[@MinimalList]

Thank you! That is so nice to hear.

[@rogerbond7811]

Brilliant footage of the robin. Stay safe at this time.

[@MinimalList]

Thank you. We are doing ok. I hope you are too.

[@fdsfpvquadventures1141]

Good for Michael for attending to George’s ball chasing needs before his lunch!

[@MinimalList]

George always comes first!

[@JCDiamond]

Loved the robin. Robins here look completely different. :D

[@SeanMcPhersonSenior]

Very glad you made good time, considering the extraordinary efforts to get up through those locks the first time! It did look like in one of the locks there was a bright yellow tennis ball, but when I next saw the back of the boat by the controls, the 'quiver' appeared full with the balls tucked away behind the brace on the side of the stern area, so I'm guessing it was a 'free range tennis ball'. Also, you were very much due the good weather for it. Thanks for another video, and hope folks on the towpath wherever you are at are being courteous and you're getting to catch up and play lots of ball-throwing with George when space permits. Stay safe, and as always, looking forward to the next video as soon as I finished this one :)

[@terryrigden4860]

Glad you had a good run and helpful lockies. Thanks for the Vlog a reminder of when we were free . Hope you have found somewhere nice to wait out the lockdown, it may be a while. One technique you might find useful when passing broad flights with another similar sized boat is to strap them together and have one helmsman steer the pair. This frees up another person for lock operation and the boats only collide once.

[@MinimalList]

Thanks for the suggestion. We are well and have a good mooring for lockdown. I hope you are well too.

[@Bender24k]

Nice day, nice video - thanks!

[@MinimalList]

Thanks for watching!

[@myCloudWatcher]

Thank you for a view out your window. I am home for a while,

[@MinimalList]

Thanks for coming along.

[@nbflyingfox4672]

Great vlog Micheal and Jo. Sorry I missed your visit to Sheffield but looks like you had fun. Hope your coping with the current affair. Keep safe....

[@MinimalList]

We really enjoyed Sheffield. We are well. I hope you are too.

[@anthonypaterson7066]

The area around Tinsley flight looks pretty grim, I like some industrial landscape but not the detritus in the water etc. Enjoy the next section and stay safe.

[@MinimalList]

It’s a nice enough area, but yeah after the floods there’s a fair amount of stuff in the water. M

[@776281]

So George is almost always a good boy. Stay safe.

[@MarcMercier1971]

Half sunken, hulls and trashed out GRPs and junk against the fence line are "Long term moorings". How polite! :)

[@paulduff3810]

Viewers please remember this was filmed after heavy flooding. Aldwarke Lock is normally self operation all year round and it was only because of damage to the lock landing by the flood that it was restricted times 11am-1pm. Also the Tinsley flight has to be pre-booked at least 24hrs in advance all year round not just in winter. This is to preserve the water level to Sheffield, as there is no natural water supply to this section and all water has to be pumped up by a pumping station located after the Deep lock 7/8 middle section about 7:15 in Vlog. The flight is Assisted passage not Manned, which means the lock keepers are there to help and assist not to do all the locks for you, whilst you take it easy drinking tea on the boat.

[@andrease2320]

well well it my child home great view of why i left but still great to see the landscape

[@MinimalList]

I hope we brought back a few good memories at least.

[@morrislouiseeagle7161]

Nice one again thank you for sharing this with us - stay safe and well sending regards and love you both 👏❤️😁xxxx

[@MinimalList]

Our pleasure! We are both doing well. Stay safe too.

[@roberttyler6454]

Hello there, enjoyable veiwing n Very interesting good, how many years would have took to build those flight of locks n how men?, they were building the back bone of Britain?, nicely put over video cheers take care see you soon .

[@MinimalList]

Well it’s hard to say, because a lot of it seems to have depended on the conditions they found and just how much money they wanted to spend... some of the canals were built quite rapidly, over just a span of a few years with large teams of men, but others were more locally funded and took decades to complete. As always it pretty much came down to just how much manpower a given canal company could afford to throw at the problem! M

[@TheSkskitey]

Great vlog . I noticed the lock keeper had an E-bike to move between locks quickly . Empty the liquid waste tank , too much info . Keep on posting but you must be going to run out soon when you get to your destination :-)

[@Leonard_Smith]

So my theory is still holding up! You were hungry and managed to recite the advertising pitch perfectly. I think I am on to something! Keep up the vlogging folks. And this includes cameo roles in other You Tubers videos too Michael...

[@MinimalList]

Possibly, but this was the second attempt.

[@Leonard_Smith]

@@MinimalList Well that puts a huge hole in the theory then...back to the drawing board I guess

[@gfloyd2002]

I'm pretty sure the taste of Yorkshire is grassy with a hint of cow pie.

[@MinimalList]

You are probably right

[@AMPProf]

Binge watching Narrowboat folk!... this man here looks like A "bear Wrangler" or "Northern ocean Ice Captin"

[@crashbox7130]

I see that the Mars Rover "Perseverance" will be taking what NASA calls a helicopter with it, when it launches in July. I think the copter should be named George 😄

[@10p6]

Awesome. Would love to see the 3 months backlog though. Maybe you should get a solar upgrade for a 64 core PC to do faster editing :-)

[@The101stEagle]

There's that music score I can't get. Think is is full and rich chords with choruses. You won.

[@TheEulerID]

That might be your least favourite lock, but it does make for pretty slo-mo video of the water cascading over the lock gate.

[@MinimalList]

This is very true!

[@cdm7steve]

ah heck dint know thats where you stayed on return trip only a 10 min walk from home... hope the lily pads dint cause to much trouble on the mooring just past the bridge catches a few out

[@MinimalList]

Sorry we missed you. Nope we didn't notice any troublesome lily pads.

[@morrisminor56]

Is the duck an Aintree hull?

[@geoffreykail9129]

God run.

[@robertkelley288]

Has anyone done a vlog about canal and lock etiquette? I think it would be very informative especially for us viewers in North America. Stay safe.

[@fdsfpvquadventures1141]

Robert Kelley Cruising the Cut has a whole video on locks. Usual rule is person nearest the lock gets priority but you should aim to use the set direction first to save water, so don’t empty a full lock when a boat is coming, even if it’s further away than you are and always try to conserve water. The helms person is always in charge of what paddles are opened when and by how much but some more enthusiastic crews may need reminding of this! If it’s a double wide lock then you try to go two boats at a time. If more boats are waiting as you leave the lock then you leave the gates open for them, otherwise all gates and paddles should be firmly shut when you finish, unless local instructions say otherwise.

[@davidchisolm6375]

Do you spend more time on locks than crusing

[@MinimalList]

I mean overall, no ... not unless you're in places with a very large number of locks in very close proximity. I'm not sure people'd do it if the locks were the majority of the time! M

[@stephengurd5272]

Very nice vblog. I hear you have one of the best solar set ups, did you make or buy the brackets, see Jono has the same now and would like to do the same to NB Dogs Allowed.

[@craigy_baby]

So... What did you think to Sheffield?

[@MinimalList]

We liked it. Victoria Quays is really pleasant and its close enough to the city to visit. Michael enjoyed the video game museum and George enjoyed the park.

[@mobiusfugue2582]

I see a theme emerging here... let the women do all the work. ;)

[@MarkJT1000]

What's the protocol when you have a lock keeper go thru so many locks with you - are you supposed to tip him or anything? You need to swap wellies with Karen so you both match. I bet those "Keep calm" shirts aren't selling well now with all this Corona virus stuff going on at the moment. 🙂 Or maybe they are.

[@MinimalList]

No, the lockies on this trip were all employees of the Canal & River Trust. You don't tip them. Even when they are volunteers you don't tip although the do often appreciate a biscuits or two.

[@trevornelmes9331]

The day before doomsday. My massive heart attack in the early hours past midnight.

[@MinimalList]

Oh goodness. Sorry to hear that. I hope you are doing ok.

[@trevornelmes9331]

@@MinimalList As well as could be expected, especially in these lockdown times. Thanks. Love to you both, and George, of course.

[@harleyjohnston9366]

Those walkways on the inside of lock gates are an accident waiting to happen.