Coast to Canal video series with Dee Caffari

Coast to Canal, is a new two-part fly-on-the-wall video series featuring narrow boating YouTube stars Fran and Rich from Floating Our Boat, and round-the-world yachtswoman Dee Caffari. The first episode can be viewed below.

Boat insurer Haven Knox-Johnston is launching the documentary series, which charts Dee’s maiden voyage on the Grand Union Canal in Leicestershire and shows her leaving the tides and currents of the open sea for a completely new challenge involving staircase locks, winding holes and tunnels on the tranquil inland waterways of the UK. 

While Dee is a hugely accomplished yachtswoman, she definitely relied on her hosts, Fran and Rich, for expert guidance and instruction along the way and to help her avoid some potentially embarrassing situations.

Luckily, she couldn’t have asked for better, more patient teachers in Fran and Rich, who in 2018 swapped their life in Norfolk for a life continuously afloat exploring the inland waterways. 

Historically, here in the UK there has been a clear divide between the two boating communities, inland and coastal, with the experiences enjoyed often being at different ends of the boating spectrum. With this video series, Haven Knox-Johnston says it is setting out to discover if being a fan of one or the other is mutually exclusive, and whether the divide can be bridged.