Stopping in York

The water of the Selby Canal was very clear but there was a lot of duck weed as you can see below. Thankfully this didn't cause us the same trouble as the blanket weed
on the Chesterfield Canal. However once we reached the basin it took us a while to

Much weed on the Selby Canal

moor as we had to clear the weed to get alongside. On Wednesday at about 5 pm we locked out on to the River Ouse. Traveling with the tide it only took us 3 hours to travel the 15 miles to Naburn! We spent 2 nights there as Paul needed to do some work on the engine. All being well we carried on on Friday arriving in York at lunch time. We made the most of our 48 hour mooring.

A sunny stroll through the walled city of York

 Took the open top bus round the city, twice! We learnt that the streets are called Gate. Gates in the wall are called Bars and bars are called pubs!
We also visited the Castle Museum, housed in the old women's prison. Also managed to see a show. Follies, which was very good.
We left York on Sunday morning just as Dragon Boat racing was about to start!

Many people enjoying the sunshine and the river.

One of the York Bars

Yesterday was an interesting day we reached Westwick Lock and there was a narrow boat stuck in the bottom of the lock. It's bow firmly wedged behind the gate. They asked us to let in water to bring them up but we were very concerned the boat was at an odd angle. Called Canal and River Trust. However something we did must have moved the boat and we were able to free them and we were all able to continue.  All this took about an hour! We moored and had lunch before anyone from Canal and River Trust arrived! Finally we moved off the river and we are now moored just outside of Ripon. We did a quick mooring yesterday just at the start of a thunderstorm!