Boat Cruising Log
Narrowboat 'Mahala' -  1981 to 2003

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19/04/81   "Maiden Voyage" from Thornes Wharf Wakefield 940 E
        Moored at Castleford    
20/04/81       Left Castleford Mooring    
        Moored in Leeds    
21/04/81       Left Leeds Mooring    
        Moored at Apperley Bridge (John's Boat Yard) 947
01/05/81       First night aboard - Labrador 'Socks' Frozen !!
02/05/81 13:15     Left Apperley Bridge Mooring    
  18:15     Bingle 5-Rise bottom   953
  19:00     Bingle 5-Rise top    
03/05/81 10:00     Left Bingley    
  16:45     Moored at Skipton (1.5 hrs for meal etc)   958
04/05/81 10:30     Left Skipton    
  13:00     Moored at Gargrave   961
08/05/81       Visited Gargrave by car    
15/05/81       Visited Gargrave by car    
06/07/81 12:00   Left Gargrave with Frank Riley, Walter Platts & Stuart Craig
06/07/81 18:30     Moored at top of Bingley 5-Rise   971
07/07/81 10:30     Left top of 5-Rise on own - shared with 'Melba' &
  11:10     'Tina Tee' - Doncaster to bottom of 5-Rise    
        Bob, Wendy, Don, Melba & Gordon (Sheffield ?)
  12:00 14:00   Three Rise Locks    
  14:30     Moored at 'Fisherman' - Dowley Gap    
09/07/81 12:00     Left Fisherman with Doreen & Neil   974
    Moored at Apperley Bridge (John's Boatyard £1.00)   978
10/07/81 09:55     Left Apperley Bridge    
        Swing Bridges    
  10:45     Rodley Boat Yard    
        Swing Bridges    
  11:20 11:50   Newley Locks (3)    
  12:00 12:20   Kirkstall Forge Locks (3)    
  12:30 12:45   Kirkstall Lock & Lunch    
  14:15 14:25   Spring Gardens Lock    
  14:30 14:50   Oddy Locks (2)    
  15:00 15:10   St Anns Ing Lock    
  15:15 15:25   Office Lock    
  15:30 15:35   River Lock    
  15:50 16:05   Leeds Lock    
        Knostrop Flood Lock    
  16:15 16:35   Knostrop Fall Lock    
  17:00 17:15   Fishpond Lock    
  17:20 17:30   Woodlesford Lock   985

Moored at Woodlesford Lock - Lock keeper Fred
Fred's brother Ken is Ramsdens Bridgekeeper Stanley Ferry

Met David Finnis (camping) - breakfast with me Monday am
David hitched a lift to Leeds on Whittakers 'Jubilee'

Saturday 14:45     Left Woodlesford Lock   986
18/07/81 15:07 15:10   Lemonroyd Lock    
  15:30 15:35   Kippax Lock    
  15:50 15:55   Castleford Junction    
  16:00 16:10   Bulholme Lock    
  17:00     Ferrybridge Lock (open)    
  17:20     Bear left for Selby Canal    

 

Saturday 17:20     Bear left for Selby Canal    
18/07/81 17:25 17:41   Bank Dole Lock (scruffy !)    
  18:15 18:25   Beale Lock    
  19:40     Haddlesey Flood Lock    
  20:20     Moored on visitor moorings    
Sunday 11:00     Left visitor moorings    
19/07/81        Anchor Inn    
  12:30     Selby Lock  (high tide 10:30am)    
  13:10     Depart Selby Lock    
  13:55 14:00 17:15 Barmby Lock (moored for lunch)    
  17:50     Wressle Castle ??    
  18:40   Moored at Breighton Launch - pontoon moorings
Monday 11:30     Left Breighton Launch moorings    
20/07/81 13:00     End of Pocklington Canal (disused)    
  14:15 14:45   Sutton Lock (Elvington)    
        Large cranked windlass required for guillotine gate)
  15:30 16:55   Moored for lunch    
  17:15     Kexley (A1079)    
  18:30     Arrived at Stamford Bridge   1001
      Disused lock to left (mooring) - weir to right !    
Tuesday 10:50     Left Stamford Bridge    
21/07/81 12:15 12:35   Sutton Lock - very shallow at low end    
  14:45   Moored at Breighton Launch - pontoon moorings 1005
  20:50     Left Breighton Launch moorings    
  22:15     Moored on Barmby Pontoon (dark) - not allowed !!
Wednesday 09:45     Left Barmby Barrage    
22/07/81 10:35     Passed Selby Lock & Bridges    
        Cawood Bridge    
  11:45 12:45 13:30 Locking into Naburn - £ 5:00 charge    
  14:00     Moored at Ship Inn - Acaster Malbis    
  16:20     Left Ship Inn pontoon moorings    
        Bishopthorpe Palace    
        A64 York Bypass    
  18:00     Moored at York   1012

 

Thursday 11:30     Left York moorings - raining heavily   1012
23/07/81 12:35     'Fox Inn' Nether Poppleton - poor moorings  
  13:40     Nun Monkton Pool - Nidd enters from left    
  14:00     Dawney Arms pub moorings    
  14:15 14:45   Linton Lock - shallows on left    
  15:15     Wooden 'Ouse - Ure' signpost on left    
  15:25     Aldwarke Bridge & Village    
  16:15     Swale Nab - navigable Ouse to left    
        Un-navigable Swale ahead !    
  17:00 17:20   Milby Lock    
  17:40     Moored at Boroughbridge   1018
Saturday 11:30     Left Boroughbridge Moorings    
25/07/81 12:30     Oxclose Lock - short walk    
  13:10     Boroughbridge for meal etc.    
  15:00     Left Boroughbridge moorings    
  15:15 15:30   Milby Lock    
  16:00     Swale Nab    
  16:40     Aldwarke Bridge & Village    
  16:55     Wooden 'Ouse - Ure' signpost on right    
  17:15 18:00   Linton Lock - £ 1.00    
  18:30     Nun Monkton Pool - Nidd enters from right  
  19:00     'Fox Inn' Nether Poppleton - poor moorings  
  19:40     Moored at York   10:25
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Friday 22/05/87 Cruise for Marjorie & Joe Butler with Mel & Ships Dog 'Trixie'
On narrowboat 'Mahala'  -  note that pictures were added later - mainly from  'Oxford Blue'
LEEDS - LIVERPOOL CANAL
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09:30       Office Lock 1877  
        River Lock    
AIRE & CALDER NAVIGATION
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        Leeds Lock & Royal Armouries Museum & Basin
        Leeds Sanitary Station    
        Knostrop Flood Lock    
        Knostrop Lock    
        Thwaite Mill Museum    
        Fishpond Lock    
        Woodlesford Lock    

Following a breach in the river Aire to St Aidens open cast mine workings,  (in 1992 ?)
Lemonroyd & Kippax locks were replaced by a NEW deep Lemonroyd lock.

        OLD Lemonroyd Lock  
        Kippax Lock (no longer exists)  
        The Boat Pub    
        Castleford Flood Lock    
        Castleford Mooring - Loading Staithe    
        Woodnook Lock    
        Kings Road Lock    
        Birkwood Lock    
        Old Stanley Ferry Aqueduct    
        New Stanley Ferry Aqueduct    
        Stanley Ferry  (Mill House Inn)  
        Broad Reach Flood Lock  (open)    
        River Calder    

CALDER & HEBBLE NAVIGATION

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        Fall Ings Lock  +   (Break for Dogs & Food !)  
        Wakefield Flood Lock    
        Jolly Sailor Pub  (Thornes Lane Wharf)    
        Double Two Shirt Company    
        A View of Sandal Castle    
        Thornes Lock    
        Thornes Flood Lock    
        M1 Motorway Bridge    
        Broad Cut Low Lock 1886  
        Moored at the Navigation Pub  (Calder Grove) 9.00
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