A winter show to watch: Canal Boat Diaries

[Norm L.]

I found this site accidentally and decided to give it try out of curiosity/boredom. The season 1 1st episode was a bit interesting although slow. Since I had some time, I watched episode 2 and was hooked.

The history is very fascinating and the photography excellent. The interesting thing in this documentary is it has all the parts that we all know about things going wrong on a trip. Not the huge adventures of solo sailing oceans. I could identify with some of this life.

It has some similarities to doing the canals in northern Holland. Definitely some low overhead under bridges.

It caught on so well, I guess mostly the Brits, that is now on Series 4 on the BBC. So I have a few hours ahead.
A cheap route is Acorn TV. I have a good book that is a historical coverage of the British canals. When, why (always commercial money), and how. With maps. I put it away somewhere and now that I want it, I can't find it. That is the fault of too many bookshelves with quasi organization. 

[Frank B.]

I watched a number of the canal boat series and got hooked on them. The best of the bunch that I watched was Canal Journeys and had Timothy West and Prunella Scales, a married couple of British actors, elderly at the time of shooting.  A lot of history was revealed during the series, and the transition from the canals being there for working barges of goods pulled by horses to today's mostly recreational use was interesting.

I'll look up the one your refer to and check it out. 

[Krusen]

Links, please, I do searches very poorly.

Krusen, the oldest sailor on here.   

[Norm L.]

https://acorn.tv/search/canal%20boat%20diaries/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bjyy/episodes/guide

Just search Canal Boat Diaries and there are a number of sources