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A further cruise to spend more time in York, with the same mooring, morning and lunch venues but then, in the afternoon, Daniel and Angela dropped off the girls at the library, Di insisted on shopping on her own and I walked up to York Minster, an uplifting experience that displays half of the medieval stained glass of England in its large windows. I also walked up and down the Shambles again and bought a York walking stick mount which I nailed to the Paxton Princess flagstaff upon my return.
Then the return cruise to Naburn for our evening activities. The papers are talking of the inevitability of war in Yugoslavia and, locally, of the latest Pit Bull Terrier incident and the removal of the Rowntree name from the Kit Kat chocolate bar and its replacement with Nestles; a controversial move against the people of York.
Today realised one of the ambition of our summer's voyage - namely time to spend at the effective head of the Yorkshire Ouse navigation - the city of York itself. We used our two fifty pence pieces to have showers in the Naburn Marina toilet block and even Diana recognised their amenity and value as she could regulate the temperature to her own fickle satisfaction. Daniel and I shared our fifty pence which lasted for both of us. Then, the crew being ready, we cruised off on the half hour's journey to York, whilst having breakfast in turn, until we arrived at Kings Staithe and moored around 10.00am, just in time to get the mooring we wanted. Daniel and Angela went off together and saw York Minster as Diana, the girls and I went to a supermarket and did some shopping for the essentials that we were going to need for today and Sunday tomorrow.
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The day trip on a very warm day from Naburn to York City Centre where we moored at King’s Staithe, had morning drinks at the Danish Café and lunch at the Pizza Hut whist shopping for supplies and collecting Angela from York Railway Station. The steering seemed to be all right today.
Tea on the Paxton Princess bridge under the top canopy. The news is of Middle East peace moves with the spotlight on Israel now that the USA is putting pressure on them to negotiate with the Palestinians
The night was very peaceful and we slept well until I was awoken by the radio automatically turning on for the shipping forecast. I turned it off but was then up soon after 7.00am to go up to the marina block for a shower and then, once back on board, I used the hose to wash off all of the dirty mud and sea water stains that we had picked up from our sea and estuary cruise. Then I mopped the boat clean, and it soon dried off in the morning sun. We have certainly been very fortunate with the weather which has been fine and sunny for the most part. Naburn Marina is very quiet and serene place and I was watching a Heron fishing when I first woke up. We were rather slow to get going and then I radioed the Marina and arranged for a toilet pump out after which we set off on the hour’s cruise to York.
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The hair raising voyage from Hull Marina to York through the thick Yorkshire Ouse muddy water, winding along the outside bends for depth in tidal water right up to Naburn. There a misunderstanding led to the swing bridge being closed on me and with steering failure we eventually spiralled until I got the mud weight and chain down to regain control, moor and fix the steering. Eventually through the lock and to moor in Naburn Marina
The journey called for an early start, and we had not done as much preparation as I would have ideally liked but we felt that we were ready and were up early for our trip from Hull to York. The first problem was that Daniella became sick during the night and was actually sick several times in the boat which gave Diana and I a rather troubled and wakeful time. I was the first to rise this morning and listened to the weather forecast and had to persuade Di that we should still stick to our plans as Della's condition needed a day to develop and we could nurse her just as well as we were cruising along. We therefore set off and locked through the Hull Marina Lock at 7.20am and began our trip up the rest of the Humber and then the Yorkshire Ouse. It began well with the course across the Humber well marked with buoys and the flood tide fully in our direction and speeding us along.
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