Life idly drifting along a waterway might seem idyllic, but in the grip of winter it's a whole different ball game, as boating enthusiast Robbie Cumming found out when filming BBC Four's Canal Boat Diaries. Now in its fourth series, Robbie continues his journey on his narrowboat, the Naughty Lass, all captured on mobile phones and small cameras.
His adventures start once again on Monday, May 1, with the Nottingham episode screened on Wednesday, May 3 – all filmed and captured on mobile phones and small cameras. It was last December, during icy conditions, when the 40-year-old YouTuber who has more than 40,000 subscribers, arrived in Nottinghamshire on a "tidal"' River Trent.
He said: "The river does flood a lot, the current is too much. It's the second largest river in the country in terms of the volume of water it carries so you can imagine at times you are fighting quite a current to get from Newark to Nottingham. You are pushing against the flow of water. I slowed right down till I was almost zero mph and I was thinking how am I going to get through this? But luckily I did.
