

Cruising the Cut
Episodes
S4 E1 - Travelling Man
May 4, 202130minIn which David sets off on his narrowboat again, this time up the North Oxford and Coventry canals with a massive tour planned for the year.Join PrimeS4 E2 - Country Music
May 4, 202126minThe Ashby canal is reached - miles of glorious countryside cruising with no locks to interrupt the trip. The sun shines, the birds tweet - this is what narrowboat life is all about.Join PrimeS4 E3 - There and Back Again
May 4, 202135minThe end of the Ashby canal is reached - it doesn't connect to another waterway and indeed the final few miles are under a programme of restoration, so David turns the narrowboat around and comes back the way he just came.Join PrimeS4 E4 - Grand Days Out
May 4, 202126minA break from the usual narrowboat cruising in this episode as David visits his hometown's canal festival and then the annual inland waterways show at Crick in Northamptonshire.Join PrimeS4 E5 - Sent to Coventry
May 4, 202127minReluctantly, David leaves the Ashby canal, taking his narrowboat further up the Coventry canal during which time he spots alpacas on the towpath, deals with unseasonably rainy weather and waits at the slowest water point ever.Join PrimeS4 E6 - Some Like It Hot
May 4, 202136minThe unseasonably rainy weather is replaced with unseasonably hot weather - for a day - during which time David seeks out shade for his narrowboat amongst the trees of the Coventry canal.Join PrimeS4 E7 - Turning Left
May 4, 202126minHaving reached Fradley Junction, David takes his narrowboat onto the Trent & Mersey canal and crashes into another boat - very slowly - at a lock queue.Join PrimeS4 E8 - Good Company
May 4, 202130minAfter a worrying morning spent trying to rescue a drowning sheep, David takes the narrowboat further up the Trent and Mersey canal to Stone where he brings a friend aboard for a few days.Join PrimeS4 E9 - The Caldon of the Wild
May 4, 202132minDavid and his passenger embark on a voyage along the twisty, windy, narrow, overgrown - and yet quite charming - Caldon Canal.Join PrimeS4 E10 - About Turn
May 4, 202130minHere, David reaches end of the Caldon canal at Froghall, despite a nasty moment when the narrowboat began juddering along a river. Plus he takes time out from cruising to visit friends about their widebeam canal boat.Join PrimeS4 E11 - Eye in the Sky
May 4, 202129minThe Caldon canal has two far ends - it splits into two, going to Froghall and Leek - so in this episode, David takes his narrowboat to the Leek arm. Then he leaves the boat again and visits friends going over the world-famous Pontcysyllte aqueduct in north Wales.Join PrimeS4 E12 - My Favourite Canal
May 4, 202132minHaving left the Caldon canal behind, David takes his narrowboat once more through the scary Harecastle tunnel and emerges onto what is now his favourite canal - the Macclesfield.Join PrimeS4 E13 - Bridge over Untroubled Waters
May 4, 202129minDavid continues up the gloriously beautiful Macclesfield canal.Join PrimeS4 E14 - The Calm Before the Storm
May 4, 202135minFinishing his 2019 cruising season on the Peak Forest canal, David then takes the narrowboat to a dry dock for the hull to be re-painted; and there's disaster as he breaks down en-route to his winter mooring.Join Prime
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