The Trouble With Making Plans

A very good friend of ours has the saying “never make a plan because some fucker always comes and spoils it”. Well for many weeks now we have had a plan and guess what. It’s been spoiled.

There are two different ways of approaching York from our moorings in Lincoln. The easiest route is to go all the way along the Trent to where it joins the Ouse and becomes the Humber and then to continue up the Ouse to York. Now this route is by far the quickest but is not for the faint of heart.

The alternative route is to go down the Trent as far as Keadby and to then continue along the SSYN, go along the New Cut, onto the Aire & Calder and finally onto the Selby canal where the canal once again meets the river Ouse. It is then a quick 2 hour jaunt up river to Naburn lock and then on into York. Now this route adds a good 2 days onto the time taken to complete the journey.

The plan for many months had been to go via Trent Falls and come back through the canal system, however our friends boat has been playing up and now one engine is dead. This may sound bad but each engine is over 200hp each so she will still be able to power around the Falls, but her owners want to go the canal route. This will only give us a day in York before we have to head back for Selby. We need to work on them and get them to go around Trent Falls, otherwise the journey will be a waste of time.