Navigating 13 Canal Bridges on a 120-year-old Tall Ship

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

🎉 Bessie Ellen's Round Britain Tour begins! The start of our adventure, sailing around the UK in celebration of 120 years of this beautiful wooden sail boat. Hope you enjoy spending the day with us on the Sharpness Canal, along with the crew, guests, and of course, Bracken the salty sea dog 🐶! Kim and Del

[@davidgeorgeben-avraham9243]

To see this trading ketch still alive and working is a rare privilege!

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Indeed! It was a privilege for us to spend the year aboard and to be able to capture this special journey 🙂

[@tbir5689]

The hours of work that must have gone into editing this film (having spent weeks filming) makes my head hurt. Congratulations and thank you for not drowning it in too much music.

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Thanks for the appreciation and for recognising the work that goes into producing these films, very much appreciated 🙏🙂

[@jonasvanleeuwen-dl2bk]

Good to see nikky you putting still enormous effort and love into your beautiful ship greetings Jonas from holland

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

She really does work so hard at maintaining Bessie Ellen and keeping her sailing.

[@k.s.1871]

Fantastic video series ..... I have enjoyed them all !

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Great to hear! Thanks for watching 😃

[@daurelb]

I truly admire the devotion and love for the old sailing tradition, that comes marvelously to live thanks to all the people spending time and resources to keep these ships alive. Thanks for sharing and letting an abandoned sea dog participate a little bit in your adventures. Happy travels and may our courses cross one day!

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

It is indeed a great thing to keep these old ships alive and in use… glad you enjoyed it, and thanks very much for watching 🙂

[@karennuttall8326]

Thanks so much for your fabulous documentation of this suberb old ship. Really loving every post. So great getting to know her and being able to sail along with you all. ❤

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

You’re welcome Karen, glad you’re enjoying it all. Thanks for watching 😃

[@jcline147]

What a beautiful day…gorgeous weather, friends and guests, no further mishaps…and CAKE! What could be better!

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Exactly! The perfect day 😃

[@curzonpeier6539]

So excited to get the opportunity to follow Bessie Ellen & crew around the UK, the scottish coast should be AWESOME! As will be the glimpses we get of Nikki's extraordinary cooking skills. Hooray :) & thank you!

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching and for leaving such a great comment. Yeah, also looking forward to sharing everything from Scotland and all the life on board too… cheers! 😃

[@huwowen7917]

Absolutely fantastic wish I could have been with you all for this wonderful trip. Good luck for you as you leave the Cymru and best wishes for your ongoing voyage. We should treasure our heritage these vessels are living legends xxxxxc

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Thanks Huw! Absolutely agree about treasuring such historic vessels… rest assured that that is exactly what Nikki does with Bessie Ellen. Thanks for watching 😃

[@isabelleb.1270]

Always a treat to have some news from Bessie Ellen ! Thank you 🧡✨

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

You’re very welcome, thanks for watching! 😃

[@Nena84734]

A beautiful ride!

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Yes indeed!

[@craigmartin8326]

I love watching Bessie Ellen's .

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Great stuff, lots more to come 😃

[@01jvb]

Excellent photography. Thank you.

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks very much 😃

[@Kubotahonda5]

Nothing can beats the Going the whole Hogg's amazing vlogs, Nikki is a Queen Thyra , great attitude, brave with have full on spirits 🏹❤I enjoyed every bit of, Thank you 🙏 ❤ 🇬🇧⛵🌅🍂- love from Japan 🎌

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Great to get such an enthusiastic reaction, thanks very much! 😃

[@simplicity6564]

Beautiful. Well done.

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Thank you very much!

[@brianwilkinson719]

Thank you...another dream to add to my bucket list.

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

You’re welcome, thanks for watching. Yes, a great addition to the bucket list 😃👍

[@gabrielatognetta6449]

Hola, cómo están, siempre disfruto de sus bellos videos...!! Pero está embarcación tiene un no se que ,bueno todo lo clásico ,es atemporal,mil gracias por filmar y compartir con nosotros, saludos afectuosamente desde BsAs🇦🇷

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Hi, thanks so much! Yeah, we are in total agreement, Bessie Ellen is such a great subject for filming. Thanks again!

[@FreddyJodocusK]

Thank you so much for a wonderful video about a fantastic journey! If I may make one suggestion though; for those who may be hard of hearing or don't speak English as a first language, like myself, it would be of great help to include subtitles on screen for sections with radio conversation like at minute 20:30 as it can be rather difficult to understand what is being said on the other end due to the white noise that comes with the transmission of the message. I am looking forward to follow this incredible journey and hope you will give Bracken some extra belly rubs and head scratches from me. All the best.

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Thanks for watching and we're very happy to have you following along with the journey! I type up all the subtitles in English, and these can be viewed by turning on the captions or you can auto-translate into many different languages. I didn't include the subtitles for the section with the radio because I couldn't fully understand what was being said either, it was something to do with calling him back once we could see the water and then he would open the bridge. We look forward to sharing another film with you soon! All the best, Kim

[@rogerstone3068]

Great video. Good choice of music, not too much explanation of everything we see, lovely snatches of real life on the boat. Are you going to do a boat tour?

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Thanks Roger, glad you enjoyed both the style and content of the video. We’ve previously done a boat tour video which you can see here: Boat Tour (Tall Ship Bessie Ellen, 1904) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWKkm5eAo7yjaJI

[@ЛеонидТатаринов-и3т]

❤

[@larrydeforrest5744]

Wish I was aboard.

[@studiorosenforsintl.3434]

Beautiful, again. Are there any B.E. t-shirts or other apparel for sale?

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Thanks! Yes, there will be some Bessie Ellen T-shirts and other items including a calendar available very soon on the Bessie Ellen website. Hopefully the shop will be live within the next week or two!

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Hello, just to let you know that the Bessie Ellen shop has just gone live! You can shop here and all proceeds go towards maintenance and repairs on BE - bessie-ellen.com/shop/ Thanks! Kim

[@rogerstone3068]

Wow! Only just discovered this, so something in the You Tube algorithm is working. I see the video was posted 4 days ago, but what date was it as you were setting off, please? I'm trying to work out when you will cross paths with Florence - Matt and Amy going round the other way. They are (in current episodes) on Skye, in midsummer.

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Hi Roger, great to have you onboard! We set off from Gloucester on April 19th. Not entirely sure when we would’ve crossed paths with those guys but Bessie Ellen was sailing off the coast of east England in Midsummer.

[@nickhowe9617]

Hi, just found you and would love to know how to potentially be part of a crew? This is literally my dream to help out if possible? Thanks Nick

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Hi Nick, that’s a dream we can totally understand. If you head over to the Bessie Ellen website - bessie-ellen.com/ - you’ll find contact details for Nikki there. All the best 🙂

[@waynescammell443]

Not what I would call sailing

[@GoingTheWholeHogg]

Got to do the motoring part first before the sailing can happen

[@AWMul]

If only someone clever could integrate all means of transport, some views you get huh....