this is the end of the heat wave we had for about a week and i pretty much didn't film any of it
although i enjoyed the heat um my laptop didn't do really well in it so i couldn't really edit
or do anything like that but this weekend we are promised thunderstorms and a lot of
rain so tonight we're going to move as far away from oxford as we can because we spend
far too much time here and yeah i need to get somewhere nice and safe for the weekend
you want to see how i take the paddle board out how do you do it
i lift it very awkwardly and then i like smash everything around with each side and almost drop
it and then almost scratch with the thin like it just doesn't really work okay i've got a lot to
learn my young padawan first of all you need to untie him that's probably where you've been going
wrong so the first thing you do after you've untied it because this is clipped on one side
when you pull it it's only going to go one way what you don't want is the fin on the boat side
if that goes through a window you're in big trouble so first job is to spin at the rain
you spin it the wound in whatever way you feel comfortable just do it this way
sometimes it just arrives just wanna let it go take the length it down
there are a couple of spots actually on the boat where there's not as many
windows so there there's two windows so then lift
just straight up
so fun to be on a move again we spent way too long in oxford we were supposed to be moving quite
a long way last weekend but because the lock was shut uh if we ended up staying there and with work
commitments during the week we just couldn't move so finally today i feel free now we need to get as
far as we can before it starts thunderstorming i would love to find a safe spot with loads of
all the wifi and wrong turns i took someday i'll fight for it better than i fought for you
i'll back down cause i got time and i'm wasting my
all the
cause i fought for you
we just found recycling can't wait to empty our bins
so we arrived very late last night to abington that's where we stayed over and today
we thought that the weather is getting pretty bad for cruising however it looks like we can
put in a couple of hours so we're setting off the one thing we need to do is to get
gas somewhere on the way because we're running very low
this is the place where wilton berks canal that's their official name used to meet the thames
it linked the canaan event canal at semington near milkshake with the river at abingdon
this canal was abandoned in 1914 but since then several locks and bridges have been restored and
even eight miles of the canal have been rewarded wilsonvex canal was a narrow canal a meant for
boat only seven foot wide how's she going captain it's me since the service and the engineering
rebuild i just think we have so potentially solved but so far we've done quite a few moves since then
sounds looks like we've solved a problem that was persistent since february
20 20 yeah and i think we've done it we did it ourselves almost yeah we did call day one oh yeah
well yeah no of course yeah he gave us the wisdom and we did the manual labor if you didn't give up
never give up
the channel we're in is man-made we're coming up to column lock
and sometimes on the thames possibly on other rivers there are places that are
almost like canals the rule is that you're not allowed to moor up here
because it's a very narrow stream yeah they're quite narrow and might be a little bit shallow
we couldn't see the channel and the lock sign
on the way in there they must have cut up the tree to make it more visible this time
we didn't know it yet but there was a lovely surprise waiting for us at the next lock
i love various different types there nice one okay i'll take a couple we did have some dailies
and other stuff but they sold so well it was just boom all right what are we getting uh four plants
look nice don't they so i'm gonna get the boat
i'm so happy about finding the plans of the lock
um we've got four two of them are the same and they're supposed to be all indoors so
i'm excited to have a look what they are and find them at home find them a place on the boat
so the final destination today is wallingford we've been there before and we know a couple
of spots what we want is to find a place with a very strong internet connection uploaded download
because tonight is our very first zoom video zoom call with our patrons so
we are finally get to meet everybody um everybody who can make it so if you're a
patron i hope you managed to make the call and if it goes well we're definitely gonna have
more of them it was meant to be thunderstorms and rain today but it's not and we get to enjoy
another day for cruising on the river so very very happy about that as well
colin and jin this could be you one day on the thames on the wide beam
so
so and we tried to fly our drone to get a picture of that spectacular bridge um
but we can't fly the drone here um it's a non-authorized zone because there is
a military base raf face benson coming up ahead so might see a ufo we'll see
we are approaching a boat high place because we need gas
and we're hoping that they might have it there for sale
i don't think they're going to do it doesn't say like color anyway
i've got a blue see them in the cage over here no i don't think this is for us
unfortunately
oh i didn't change it
so it's an angel
we've got the last spot it's a it's a half a spot
have you got it i've got it
with the net did you catch it with the net he got it with the neck yeah nice
where are we going today our home spot on the thames pangborn
so we went for a walk last night which was really lovely um on the other side of the bank
we had another first um for alba or cruising crew of alba we dropped our e-cigarette
my e-cigarette in the water which was annoying um but you know these things happen but it felt
more bad that there's a battery in there and god knows what else so this morning we woke up paddle
boarded over and fished it out it does appear that it's working so we've got it in some rice
hopefully that saves me 30 quid on a new e-cigarette i know i should stop folks so we
did our first patron zoom pool last night which was really really really good um it was really
lovely to put faces to a name but um it was funny we turned up and uh one of our uh fellow patreon
crew darren um was like oh i can see you guys like what he was just across the river from us
and waved but this is his boat i would give him a two on the hoop but the hoot is broken classic
there he is we're heading to pangborn and marina's friends joining us so before it gets too bad we
thought we'd make a move yeah wanted to say goodbye and we'll probably see you down there
shortly see you later love your boat love the color yeah very nice really lovely take care
we hope to get gas in this marina but it doesn't look open
also doesn't look like they stop these kilogram penises that we have so the search
continues
just made it safely to pinebone there are loads of moorings available here so we had a few to choose
from luckily didn't rain just drizzled the most of the way through but it was fine totally doable
we don't need it necessarily but there is a hole there we've made it really early today it's not
even 12 o'clock so we've got a whole day ahead of us to enjoy and i've got a friend coming over
for a visit so yeah and it's stopped raining it's not raining maybe we should go for a dip
the water is really warm why'd you come up with these bad ideas great ideas
no thank you all so much for watching if you enjoyed the journey please give this video a like
next week we are taking a break friends so there won't be an episode however to say thank you to
our lovely patrons we are uploading a very special video for them on our patreon page
at the same time next friday so check that out thank you all see you in the next one