i broke the dinghy there's a hole in it
you can do it
welcome to cruising alba we invite you to join us on our adventure
living off grid and traveling the uk canal network i'm miles and i'm marina
so
as soon as you take them up i feel like what the real temperature is
i agree amazing through waves of hot and cold i was really warm right because that onesie
and i had like three jumpers and god knows what i feel good
we'll today in about yeah in about 10 minutes 10 minutes
yeah much better
we're going for a small cruise just a mile or so further up our car is parked somewhere over
there so we are going to get some water drop the rubbish off and pick up stuff from the gun
my ginormously
no recycling and this spot again
we've just done our water and we're on our way to find the mooring
to swing bridge
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llamas
so ken and evan canal is really muddy i mean most of them probably are but because
the toe path is quite far away um you've got to use a plank so you constantly
walk in the mud so we don't have a crutch cover of our stern so we don't really leave our shoes
there or anything like that so there is an area where we could take them off without
bringing it in so everything we touched ends up being covered in mud not quite like london no
oh
the night is long and mostly sleepless for me day 9 finds us more resigned to living in a washing
machine as mom calls it the infinite sparkling moonbeams make it difficult to take my eyes off
i like puzzles when you get the box you can actually do the puzzle in the lid of the box
but then if you don't finish it
that's for like 200 pieces or something i just need a bigger box
okay we can't complain about a free puzzle cam no yeah super grateful
i'm just going to count the pieces make sure they're all here one
oh canal is frozen this is the first time
it must be really cold today
i can't get out the plank is really slippery the collar's on the roof as well and i think
i'm just gonna wait an hour don't fancy climbing on the slippery roof right now
i'll come out and pick it up okay can't wait
zenda the icebreaker it is a pretty crazy idea but why not but nothing else to do
our solar is covered in ice and frost but i checked the monitor and it's still
generating power which is amazing we're on 12.6 which is where we're supposed to be on 12.4
it's gonna be a loud one
yeah let's hope we don't get stuck in the middle it'll be really funny
sorry viewers it's gonna be a loud one
we'll keep crashing the ice we have to break the eyes to get anywhere
as i understand fiberglass and ice are not friends and we shouldn't really be doing this now a dinghy
i'll be more worried about the water that's inside digging
crazy uh yeah so i hope you won't think today is not today
it's so bumpy
actual bubbles
um i'm filming so this is like totally
inappropriate oh goodness i'm trying really hard not to show the camera
i'm glad we moved yesterday i don't think we could have done it today oh yeah the flight no
do you know any ice jokes
i did this in a canoe once and it was great fun
oh
just some grime i'm gonna throw one too the whole thing the whole thing i need a small one
this is so satisfying it's like a new game
hold it with your nails
i broke the dinghy there's a hole in it
where in the front is it an ice hole oh gosh is it gonna sink now i'm trying to look at it
we're gonna have to rename it titanic
oh i'm so strong so we're gonna use this tape
and hopefully that will get rid of the hole yeah look at it
oh sorry zander we did it again
it nearly lasted two years with us it was already maybe it will just be easier to empty it now
with the hole just replace the tape yeah
so since being on the k a it's not really dingy friendly we've had quite a bit of damage caused
to the dinghy so the first one the locks although they're 72 foot they are literally 72 foot there's
not much wiggle room in it so we were in a lock and uh the boat moved back a little bit the engine
was on the back and it crushed and you can see here it just completely cracked it down here and
then the top bit which is glued the blue bit which is glued to the white it's basically just popped
off i'm sure the engine might still work but you can see there when you put some pressure on it
so although the ice is really thin what happens is don't do this at home
because when you drive the boat dinghy into it like we did
you'd think oh it just it'll just break really easily it was probably a bit too thick but
actually what it does is it pushes all of the ice on the canal so i don't know what that is
10 meters you're actually pushing against 10 meters worth of ice and ice is really tough
you can do it
yes
how many days have we lost
four we haven't sat on this sofa for four days
i'm cold and i'm hungry but we've gotta finish this
so we're now um at the stage we're not looking in the picture because otherwise we're too easy
i feel like there's pieces missing and there's too many as well some just don't go anywhere
that's me just like this high-rise buildings where are those it must be over here somewhere yeah no
oh please just something fit somewhere
oh yes i've got one yeah yeah is that no just one piece remaining whilst is under the couch trying
to find it we found this puzzle in the telephone box in pc it's like a boaters exchange uh corner
um so it might be missing about a one piece but who knows it could be us as well
next week we'll find solution for the broken dinghy
build the terrarium and do the big job of cleaning out the chimney thank you all so much for watching
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