On Wednesday we cruised along to York . An interesting stretch of river with loads of
moored boats and shacks on stilts on the banks.
I love looking at these bits as they give a glimpse of other people’s
lives. There are plenty of boats moving
and also loads of people who mostly wave.
This is something you quickly get used to on a boat.
This is not one of the shacks on stilts!
We are not really used to rivers having spent much of our previous boating time on the ditch, so it is always a bit of a surprise when little cruisers come zipping past. We have spoken to some narrow boaters who seem to resent this, but we love to watch them speeding past and all the disturbance that this causes in the waterJ
Made it to York
in short time, about an hour, the approach is very impressive with the ornate bridges
and the water buses, which are huge.
Moored up just beyond Lendal Bridge 5:00am by a passing boat, which
was either very big or very fast, as it caused much turbulence. Very alarming at 5:00
in the morningJ
Friday morning at the crack of dawn, well 9:30am we set off to make our way to
Ripon. We moored overnight at Linton
Lock, walking back across the fields for about 1 mile to the pub at Newton
on the Ouse. The moorings were a little
crowded and we ended up with a narrow boat called Ellie breasted up against
us, lovely couple called Graham and Tina who are also heading to Ripon. The locks on this stretch of the
river to Ripon are a bit shorter than Jeanie Deans, which means we have to go
in diagonally and it is difficult to share a lock with another boat.
From Linton Lock it is a short trip to Boroughbridge. The lock at Borough
Bridge
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