today I'm going on holiday courtesy of mr. Paul Barlow here who is a brand-new
crank crew member welcome to the crew so we're going to North Yorkshire, Paul's giving me a
lift, but before we do that we best put you in the book
right so now I've left my boat we'll take a trip to Sheffield for this video
and see how Lou is doing but also meet someone who's having his own boat made
called James and he is also getting it painted at this stage so give me a
great chance for us to pick up some more painting tips
I'm meeting James a boat owner who's a subscriber as well just round the corner
from the Sheffield Quays itself which is where we at walking through now and yeah
it's a place I passed by many times but never really been inside so I'm
really excited by this thing it is I've not been organized and I haven't asked the
guys if I could actually film there so I don't know how much I can get on video for
you right well I found the place but it
looks a little bit shut... we're see just about to meet James
James! Hi!
Are you excited James?
James: Ah yeah I'll say, waited four years for this
R: Good things come to those that wait!
This is what they call a 'Northwich design'
James, it's got these little
rivets here are these real rivets or are they
J: Put on for a bit of show yeah
R: I like them, they're they're quite popular actually
I've seen been to Mansfield and I've seen some other boats being made like this
3 panels... this will be the galley
Boatman's bar going across...
Side hatches...
Bathroom...
And bedroom with a potters cabin at the front, the bed will be all the way under there
if you look at the shape of the bow it's different to a Joshua that has all these sexy shapes [gets a bit excited!!!]
This is a bull!! Get out of my way!!
Every boat is different, so how much input do you get into the build - you just say to them...
get into the the Builder that you just say to them that I want I want this
J: I want this, you build it!
Ok so the water goes in there and there's another hatch here
and that's the escape hatch
yeah
this is the primer
that's on there at the moment Jotun 87
but after that we'll have some
base coats then the gloss I guess undercoat and then the gloss
Alright so what colour are we thinking?
J: the traditional Ruddles red, sky blue, ruddles red here, blue there, and post office red for the details
so real a real mix of red and blue
yeah but the panel's will be different
they'll be black and gold
R: black and gold
James, what's the name of your boat gonna be?
Noah
Lovely — not Noah's Ark?
no just Noah — to represent the second chance
Are you religious? Or...
Yeah I'm Christian, yeah
okay cool so that really fits in with your whole lifestyle
Right we're actually on top of the the boat now have a little look inside
right down the end there look at that... it's a 58 foot long
boat this one so yeah quite a bit longer than mine and it's good to see that
even new boats have a little bit of water in the bilge
James can you just imagine
yourself on the tiller...
J: Oh yeah! Get a flange, a chair an umbrella and a bottle of Pimm's!
That's the life! That's what we all dream of!
it's 10mm on the base
6mm on the sides
5mm on the walls or whatever you call them
And 4mm on the roof
okay cool
If I wanted to build my own boat,
how long does it normally take?
J: Well I was quite lucky because I came here in
January thought about it came back in February
placed the order yeah they started building round about March/April time and
this was completed several weeks ago so about 6 months
that's just for the shell! Still got to do all the interior!
Well thanks for showing me around
Cheers James and good luck!
yep even on holiday I could not escape my arch-nemesis; the swing bridge!
I really didn't mind waiting for the swing bridge this time because I had access to
a car and that was such a novelty so thank you Paul because without loan of
your car I would never have found Robin Hood's Bay
you've joined me at the point of my holiday we're enjoying a lovely stroll
on the beach and doing one of my favorite things which is beachcombing
and also looking for fossils I never really finally until today i found a
couple of really interesting pieces this which i think is I think it's iron
stone which is what they were mining a lot in the North Yorkshire Moors
and also this is kind of a part of a fossil — it's a very weathered fossil
but I think you can just about make out
something of a shell — maybe it's a nautilus shell?!
that would be very apt
Well, one of many people who would probably tell me "no
that's not a nautilus shell, you idiot, it's an ammonite!" and that would be Tom
Barber who grew up in the area so I have to include a shout out to him
especially as he is a crank it crew producer so Tom thank you so much and
good luck with finding your boat either on the Norfolk Broads or elsewhere!
Cheers!
Anyway — back to Sheffield!
Right so I'm here with Lou again and this is your new boat!
So the last time we saw you you were on your Octomistic (Lou's first boat)
Basically I was going to get a bigger boat at some point — this one come up it was a good price so yeah I snapped
it up to be honest! It's real nice, it's 55 foot so quite a bit bigger
There's a bit of a story with this boat because it was Ronnie O'Sullivan's boat! How crazy is that!
Is there a snooker table on board? Lou: NO, that's what everyone asks me!
I absolutely love it, it's a really nice boat. I've not taken it out yet
so that would be the test!
what are your plans now then
sell Octomistic
yeah basically be on this and then just trying to get
a bit more travel around a bit more
Because your ultimate goal is to try and get to that lifestyle to moving
around and continuously cruising
that's what we all want really
I'll get there eventually
so you've put solar panels on there now?
Yeah 600 watt
600 watt!! All right!
So how come you selling that boat then it seems like you just got it and now you're having to sell it again
so obviously I went up to Staniland Marina up at Thorne
The one that I had a lot of troubles with?
It is yeah, known as the cursed boatyard
Kind of lives up to it's name
I can't fault anyone that works there, Ryan, and Niall, and Ross and that
But things didn't go to plan basically so I had quite a lot of help off of Steve at
least — whose a boat builder — so you can recommend him? Yeah definitely
everyone that's there, like really nice people but the marina just needs to be more
organized you know I'm popping back next week so
I wouldn't not go there if you have to You have to go past it
anyway yeah so if you want diesel or or supplies from the chandlery that's gonna
be your first port of call from Sheffield but yeah I think yeah
everyone is lovely I've got no bad feeling with anyone but
you've had to sell the boat because you just couldn't get the work done in the time
haven't got the time to travel long distances to get work done so yeah
basically I got this because I was thinking maybe in a years time I would
get bigger boat these come up and I thought well, instead of waiting like you know
two to five years you know I'll get this now so it's probably gonna be a
forever boat I would have thought yeah
I think you've done really well
What everyone probably wants to know is where's Maeve?!
Maeve is
she's just asleep next to Robbie, crashed out
crashed out on the new boat
she's found her spot hasn't she, it's HER sofa!
Oh I thought she'd missed me but obviously not!!
Inside! ha ha!
Anyway thanks Lou for showing us your boat
right that's the end of the video I hope you enjoyed that little poke around
Lou's boat and also then a few tips about painting — we didn't learn anything
did we?! — never mind! I'm still on holiday but by the time you see his video I will not
be on holiday anymore so will be getting back to your comments and things and
returning to social media but I think it is good it's really important to have a
break from things like Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all that
it really does swallow up your time and stops you from doing things like this well in my case I feel
like it might do so yeah returning to nature has been absolutely amazing but
that's it so as much as I've enjoyed my time here in North Yorkshire
in the North Yorkshire Moors it's time to go back to the boat now and carry on
with what I was doing in particular trying to sort out my toilet but I'll
update you on my movements very shortly
now obviously pub of the week is a very very serious endeavor and it usually
costs my time as a professional job I'm always working on it so having a break
on holiday of course I didn't go in any pubs at all
I stayed well clear of them and I certainly didn't go to this beer
festival where loads and loads of people were drinking some of the best beers
known to Yorkshire and listening to some top top music from some professional
cover-ers
they were doing covers
so yeah that's it thanks for watching — bye!