Our overnight moorings at Ferrybridge were completely vacant when we arrived, by eight o'clock they were so busy we had to move to squeeze one last boat in.
This is very rare around these waters as we see no more than two to three boats a day. The popularity must have been that these moorings were totally secure, fenced in and gated (Accessible only with a BW key).
This then was the view from the stern. I don't really mind these BW craft as a view because they all seem to me to have been put together on that TV show Scrapheap Challenge.
Lets stick this bit here and that bit there, whack an engine outside on the back and paint it green............. job done! Oh and don't forget to hang an anchor on a ramp over the stern.
Those huge commercial boats from my last posts have to negotiate these turns on their travels, this was not the place to meet one and thankfully we didn't. Whew.
Oddments along this navigation include these chutes. They were obviously used to load some sort of craft or another from the bank, now they are fenced off with no roads or tracks leading to them. One can only wonder.
These are actually rollers to help the ropes from the horses run smoothly, we have passed quite a few wooden ones travelling here but this is the first metal one we have seen. It does look like it seized up a long time before the horses did though.
We made the transition to the river Aire with only one slight problem....... manual locks.
I must admit we entered the lock at the top without a care in the world and realized abruptly that it would have to be worked through, crews holiday over then.
The above sign was the absolute last thing we would have expected to see at the time.
We didn't bring our water skis so a wasted opportunity there then.
We are in the basin at Selby now looking at the river Ouse passing the lock at about 10 to 12 knots. I have never seen water flowing this fast before, not even at sea.
This could make a big difference to our plans.
More tomorrow.............................
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