Morning! Morning! It's just gone eight o'clock. It's Friday the 3rd of May and...
It's launch day! (Excited laughing)
He's excited. Not really. He's so excited. No I'm not. You are! Yeah, I am.
(Laughing) I'm just a bit like that (Shaking).
We know today is just gonna fly by. Silver Fox is here in the shed.
She's just about to be moved outside ready for the lorry which is going to
take her to St Mary's Marina in Rufford, as in the Rufford Branch of the
Leeds and Liverpool Canal -Yeah. And that's where she's gonna be craned into the water.
Here we go. Let's go!
Before we move the boat we've secured
everything and anything that might move during the journey, so all the belongings
boxes, kitchenware, everything is either stowed on the floor
or taped down to stop any damage.
So with everything secure we filled her up with diesel and she's ready to go!
Tucked away in a lovely part of rural Lancashire is St Mary's Marina.
It's just by lock 7 on the Rufford branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal
and it's absolutely gorgeous! It's quiet and peaceful and it's just perfectly located
for where we wanted to launch the boat. And as soon as we arrived people started
coming out to say hello and see Narrowboat Silver Fox.
Everybody was so friendly, it's amazing!
Three days later and here we are.
We have moored in Melling. It's just outside Maghull
We're on our way into Liverpool and we've got the Salthouse Dock booked for later this week.
Haven't we? We have.
So, I say three days later, we haven't really filmed much in the last three days.
It has been a bit of a blur. (Laughing) A bit?
It's been a bit mad and I haven't coped with it that well, have I?
No, not really. But here we are and I'm smiling and I've
got my Peaky Blinders hat on, which Shaun likes more than I do. Yeah, I think it looks cool.
Dillon's out there.
I don't actually remember much about launch day.
No, I don't. It seemed to go pretty quick, didn't it? It was mental!
Rushing about everywhere. It was absolutely mental! Everything went to plan, everything was good.
It's a good job we did the footage really, otherwise you'd
probably wouldn't have remembered it all. No. probably not. But it was busy to get all that footage.
It kept me busy all day which was... It kept the stress away didn't it? Yeah, I think I
needed that, yeah. After that I had a little bit of a downer, yeah.
I did the London Marathon last Sunday, and we moved out of the house on the Tuesday,
then we launched the boat on Friday. So within like five or six days all these kind of big
life-changing events... and I've been having a lot of problems with my feet
with my feet and leg after the marathon which is still going on now.
So it was just like all these things together combined, and then we had to try and tidy
everything up on the boat, and it's still not there is it? It never will be!
This time next year we'll be finding things. And I think it got on top of me a little bit.
But things are settling down aren't they? Oh yeah. Little bits of snagging
which you would expect on any new boat. Nothing serious, all just insignificant
things which are getting sorted straightaway. The lads at Bickerstaffe are...
(Laughing) It's like... "Kev. Just a quick question. Nothing to worry about..."
The boys are on their way! Yeah. And they're like here within two minutes!
It's like "You could have waited a few days!" It's nothing important. So I mean thumbs
up to the lads at Bickerstaffe. To Kev and to Rob and to Ryan, and also to Keith the electrician.
The boat is brilliant! So we've gone from Rufford, St Marys.
We've made our way down the Rufford branch on to the Leeds & Liverpool
And we're now at Melling, going down into Liverpool. We're staying here for... well until
tomorrow or the day after. It's gonna rain tomorrow - It's gonna chuck it down!
It's not looking too good now. It's been sunny all morning, so we're gonna stay here while
the rain goes and then we're gonna go straight through to Liverpool from here
which is about four or five hours cruising - Yeah - So the next time you see
us it will be from Salthouse Dock in Liverpool. It will!
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