Albert 1926. Historic restoration. One 10 tonne wreck. One man. One hurricane. Official HD version.

The incredible story of one man’s belief in tackling the impossible – raising the 70-foot sunken hulk of the 1926 wooden Ovaltine narrowboat, Albert, from the bottom of a canal and single-handedly bringing it back to life. Chris Collins, a craftsman panel beater with no previous experience of boat building, refloated the Albert, towed it from Derby to Watford where he raised it on to the river bank and began an inspired restoration using only traditional boat building tools and timber sourced from trees that fell during the 1987 hurricane. To mark the centenary of Albert’s original launch in 1926, Woodson Film’s much-loved, award-winning documentary about Collin’s inspired restoration project (first broadcast by the BBC on the 4th September 1991) has been re-mastered onto digital format for a new generation to enjoy.