Tidal to York

I have not posted for a while so wanted to give you all an update. We left Selby Lock at 11:30. But already that morning at 06:00, I had taken the car back to Boroughbridge. Than caught the 07:30 bus to York. Then the 08:45 train to Selby! Phew! Eventually getting back to the boat for a coffee and preparing to lock out.

The tide was a 7.9 meter tide. Perfect. The one thing we didn't take into consideration was the wind! As we exited Selby Lock, the wind got us. If we were a cruiser, the 13.5 miles to Naburn would have been hell. We were ok apart from the 'breaking waves' on the exposed sections of river!!!! We actually made it to Naburn in record time.  2 hours 50 minutes! Good going for a slow underpowered narrowboat.

Once through Naburn lock we kept on moving and stopped in York for the night. The final push to Boroughbridge is tomorrow.