NARROWBOAT Newbies Heading For The TIDAL River Trent! Ep 30

After weeks of research, we are facing our fears and taking our narrowboat on a tidal river for the first time! We cruise the last stage of our journey to Cromwell Lock, making our final preparations for the trip on the tidal section of the River Trent, and meet up with our buddy boat Laura Maisie from ‪@FloatingOurBoat‬, before we head on out of the lock onto the tidal river! It is very different to the sedate canal cruising that we have been used to! Hop aboard and join us!
Hello! We're Caroline and Pete, and in 2021, after 10 years living in Texas, we sold up and moved back home to the UK to live full time aboard a 60ft narrowboat with our West Highland Terriers! Join us in our day to day life as we continuously cruise the canals and rivers of the UK. All of the ups, and the downs and everything in between!
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[@donovandavidsonAlton]

Lovely scenery and the interesting ride along thanks for letting me tag on UK

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@fchichois2250]

Beautiful scenery and very very nice Vlog. Thanks for sharing

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 😊

[@gingerbob]

Hello all, been following you for a while now. Lovely gentle vlogs 😊 I enjoyed being on the tidal Trent section. I must do it again one day. Stay safe xx

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Welcome aboard! So glad you are enjoying our vlogs. The tidal Trent was definitely a great experience 😊

[@EdSmith-wb6lx]

Enjoy your trip and Fran and Rich will help you any time you might need it. great couple and good sailing partners you guys look like you are doing well stay safe Ed 40 S of Vegas xx

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Thanks Ed, it was wonderful traveling with Fran and Rich. So many lovely summer memories made with them! 😊

[@JulieandMartinonRIB]

Wow! Those locks were daunting! Nice to see Fran & Rich with you too, would have been a bit overwhelming on your own! Lovely vlog xx ❤

[@onedaymoreaboard]

We were glad we had the pros with us! Those locks make you feel very tiny 😳

[@jacquelineryde7339]

Such a beautiful river, love it ❤❤❤

[@onedaymoreaboard]

It really is! The only downside for us really was not being able to just pull over when the dogs needed to get off 🙄😊

[@jamesfoley6555]

Just finished watching, once again great vlog,music, photos well done🙏✝️🙏🇨🇦

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@Acapulc941]

It was so nice to see Jasper and his cranky side. I laughed when he didn't want to move. Poppy seems to like being near her dad and also likes the camera, yes? Is Hamish camera shy? I look forward to seeing and Fran and Rich ( with Archie and Jess) doing this tidal run. Be well.

[@onedaymoreaboard]

You are so right Leigh! Poppy is definitely the attention seeker and is happy to be on camera, and always wants to be up on the back with her dad. There was no putting her inside even when it was hot, she just hopped right back up there! And Jasper was definitely our stubborn one, digging his heels in when he didn’t want to move! Hamish is the one that just goes where you want, albeit slowly now. He’s turning 14 next month. I’m just editing the next episode on the river with Fran and Rich and hope to have it out by the end of the week 😊

[@Roy66Nott]

Lovely video very relaxing roll on summer.

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Glad you enjoyed it Roy! Although I don’t like being so behind, it’s been lovely editing these summer videos and reliving all the wonderfully warm memories! Roll on summer 😊 ☀️

[@lynmoore8355]

That was awesome video.... and good to see Fran and Rich again, I guess this might be in their next vlog....

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Thanks so much Lyn! We are way behind on our editing so this was last Summer. Floating Our Boat had their video of the trip out a few weeks after. Here it is with Rich’s stunning drone footage kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3bTmWx3ididosk 😊

[@jamesfoley6555]

Thank you🙏✝️🙏

[@onedaymoreaboard]

You are so welcome 😊

[@m18tankdestroyer43]

Great Fun!😎

[@onedaymoreaboard]

It was a great trip! Thanks for watching 😊

[@darlawales8955]

Enjoy your 82°. We have had 21/2 months of over 100 here in TX with hardly any rain. At least I am in west Texas and do not have to deal with the humidity like you did In Houston.

[@onedaymoreaboard]

We have not missed the hot and humid Houston summer at all, especially this year with the days and days in the 100s and the lack of rain! That was just like the summer we arrived in 2011 and we had a major burst pipe! Oh the memories 😂 Hope it is cooling down for you now 😊

[@shirleyparr5743]

Another relaxing and beautiful vlog. Thanks for taking me along on your adventures.

[@onedaymoreaboard]

We are happy to have you aboard Shirley! Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@simonfirth360]

Another great vlog, they get better every episode. When you were in the lock opposite Rich I expected to here you shout ' I'll race you to the bottom ' 🤣🤣 Keep up the great work, Thanks.

[@onedaymoreaboard]

That’s so lovely of you to say Simon! I have to say I really enjoyed editing this one. Such wonderful memories of this trip, with so much anticipation, excitement and nerves, all rolled into one! There was some banter between Pete and Rich that may not have made the editing cut 😂😂

[@glyn829]

Very nice 👍 we enjoyed watching and a lovely boat 👌 so sorry about your little dog .. kind regards Glyn

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Glad you enjoyed it Glyn. It’s lovely looking back on these videos and seeing Jasper enjoying his boat dog life 😊

[@martin170153]

Sadly remember Cromwell lock, in 1975 I was in the Royal Navy when we were called to search for the bodies of 10 army engineers that went over the weir. Sad day.

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Oh no Martin, I read about that said story 😞❤️

[@LawrenceBroussard]

I am glad you said, "It's hot for England." I had to look up 28 c, but that a nice day in Texas! Nice surprise to get a vlog this soon.

[@onedaymoreaboard]

I’m doing my best to catch up on the editing Lawrence, and trying to het more than one vlog out a week now! One day I will be all caught up! 28C/82F was just the perfect day in Texas and we would get excited for that forecast as a relief from the 90s and 100s. Thanks for watching 😊

[@LawrenceBroussard]

@@onedaymoreaboard You do a great job of editing! Plus this vlog caught me eating lunch so it was a nice break.

[@ruaidhrikathygill8833]

Great video. Stunning shots. Had to watch it twice. First time the CC didn’t come on and the sound was bad. Waited an hour or so and there was the CC. You two have a knack for capturing some beautiful scenes. Love the part where Jasper didn’t want to move. I think he was enjoying his camera time, bless him. Can’t wait to see more of this trip. Thanks for sharing. 🙏😊🤗 🐾🐾🐾❤️ Kathy

[@onedaymoreaboard]

@@ruaidhrikathygill8833 I think it takes a while for the CC to publish and the final version to finish processing. I hope the sound improved too? We were laughing as I was editing this, remembering how stubborn Jasper could be when he didn’t want to move! I’m excited to finally publish these videos of our summer cruising, there’s lots more stunning scenery to come! 😊

[@ruaidhrikathygill8833]

@@onedaymoreaboard it came up as I was checking my emails, so I immediately clicked on it. Then I remembered someone posting once that you had to give it awhile. So I enjoyed it twice 😄 Looking forward to more! 🤗 Kathy

[@chibiinum]

Too bad you couldnt walk up to thr castle ruins they were amazing

[@onedaymoreaboard]

We will be back again one day to explore some more for sure 😊

[@chadtuggle9814]

Hello!! I'm also in Cromwell. Well, Cromwell, Kentucky, in the States lol!! Google says that's only 4056 miles away, so it might as well be the same one 😁😁. I found narrowboat vlogs almost two years ago (Cruising the Cut was my first) and have been obsessed ever since. I found you guys via Rich and Fran maybe 10 days ago and just got caught up. Loving it! I've got two questions as an American watching, and figured since you guys lived over here for 10 years, y'all might be better suited to answer them than some of the other vloggers lol.... 1. I think us and maybe one other country are the only ones that use imperial measurements anymore, but I've noticed the narrowboaters use miles, yards, feet, and inches instead of kilometers, meters, centimeters, and millimeters. I was curious about that? Is GB still not wanting to fully commit to metric, one foot in, one foot out lol? Is it just a boater thing? Because I follow a few British woodworkers on YT, and they use metric measurements. 2. If you guys drive on the left, why do you float the canals on the right?? Anyway, just a couple a things I've been curious about lol. Loving the vlogs and all the beautiful English countryside and old architecture (and the pubs!). If I ever hit the lottery, I'm coming over and gonna cruise the cut for a couple of years and see it all in person 🤞🤞.

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Hi Chad! Glad you found us, and thanks for watching! Your story is so similar to ours. We too started off watching Cruising The Cut, which started our obsession with narrowboats, and then found Fran and Rich on KZbin and started messaging them when we decided that perhaps this boating lifestyle was for us. We had already decided to move back to the UK as our kids were just about to graduate from college. We have now become best of boaty friends with them, and our summer cruising together was just wonderful. I don’t like being so behind with editing, but it is lovely reliving all of these memories! Your questions have really got us thinking, and you are right, the UK is a hybrid of the metric and imperial systems. Speedometers in cars are in miles, as are road signs, but weights and measures in shops are in metric. As for the waterways, those too are a hybrid. Canals are measured in miles, with mileage markers indicated in the Nicholsons Guide map books that we use. Locks depth is measured in feet and inches. However, the rivers have kilometre markers! All very confusing when you think about it! Boats follow global marine law which dictates that you keep to the right, even though we drive cars on the left! Thanks for your very thought provoking questions! 😊

[@chadtuggle9814]

@One Day More Aboard and now all my narrowboating curiosities are answered!! Lol. I could definitely see having to know both measurements would be confusing. Where I work, some stuff is metric, some imperial, never understood why they don't just pick one and go with it 🤷🤣😂. But at least I can somewhat use metric now!! Floating Our Boat, Country House Gent, Cruising the Cut, and now you two are my favorites! Keep up the fun work ❤️

[@anthonysmith-storey9247]

Is Pete just looking at the pictures in that guide 😂

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Yes it’s the Beginner’s Guide To The Tidal Trent In Pictures 😂😂

[@anthonysmith-storey9247]

@@onedaymoreaboard 😂

[@TMWeddle]

As you travel from place to place, do you notice a difference in the taste or quality of the water?

[@onedaymoreaboard]

We have really not thought about it until you asked that question, but we both agree that we really don’t notice. We fill up every time we pass a water point, so have water mixing from different areas in our water tank all the time. Thanks for watching 😊

[@TMWeddle]

I know here in the states one can detect differences from town to town, and even within my large city as they have different sources in different parts of town. Of course you have a blend that would probably negate most differences.

[@chibiinum]

Do cars go dow yhat road.

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Some stretches of tow paths are used as access roads so cars are allowed. Others are not at all suitable and any traffic, other than bicycles, is banned 😊

[@michaelchester8997]

Do you live on your narrow boat all year?

[@onedaymoreaboard]

Yes Michael, we are full time liveaboards and constantly cruise. Thanks for watching 😊

[@Acapulc941]

Was that Hamish or Poppy barking as you sounded the horn?

[@onedaymoreaboard]

We went back to listen again and think it was a dog on a boat in the marina barking as we left. It doesn’t sound like ours 😊