Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30238 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-07-02
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 55 minutes

Customer Reviews

Good for anyone who has no knowledge whatsoever of narrowboats
This DVD would be ideal for anyone who had just started to think about buying or hiring a narrowboat. If like me you have already looked at a few books and got the basics like how locks work and the rules of the road etc then this repeates a lot of that kind of info.

I found the video quite repetative at times, the same clips were shown on several different occasions to "fill out" the DVD. I found myself wishing the think would hurry up on more than one occasion.

A lot of the video content is based around the protocols that someone would go through when hiring a narrowboat, indeed is seems to be, in places the video taken by a typical customer picking up his boat at the start of his holiday.

If you are totally ignorant of narrowboats and boating in general then this DVD will be fine. However if you do have some backgroung knowlegde this DVD will repeat a lot of that. It may be good for someone to see actual boats in action though.

If i had purchased this DVD for anything more than 5 pounds i would be a bit dissapointed. As a comparison I found the BW DVD "The boaters DVD" for £2.99 which runs for 40 mins much better.

I have given this DVD 3 stars