York 2010

We had not intended to go to York this year as we visited the city by boat last Easter, however when our friends on the pirate ship Wish You Were Here asked if we would go with them, how could we say no?

Here is Naughty-Cal awaiting instruction from the lock keeper at Keadby.






After a lively night in The Old South Yorkshire, Keadby, we had an early morning start to cover as much ground as possible through the canal system. Wish You Were Heres engine problems meaning we couldnt risk the trip around Trent Falls this time around.









Once back out onto "proper" waterways the sun shone and the boats were much happier. Here is Naughty-Cal gliding up the Tidal River Ouse in the morning sunshine. She is much more suited to these waterways than the canals we had travelled to get to this point.








Still in the morning sunshine we reached Naburn with plenty of time to spare and moored up to wait for the narrowboats on their way upstream. The lock keeper as always here likes to hae a full lock before penning up or down. He certainly wedged us in this time around. We just managed to squeeze Naughty-Cal into the last avaliable space in the lock.





Early afternoon and we reach York. The riverside pubs already serving their early customers and what better place to moor than right in the heart of the city with everything avaliable on your doorstep?