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Ship Inn & York Cruise Boat
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Ship Inn Moorings - Mel's Charter
Boat 'Oxford Blue' Moored in Flood Conditions
December, 1996 see notes below
Note that the Pontoon Moorings are MUCH HIGHER than normal !
(the gangway slopes DOWN from the boat - normally steeply UP)
the River Ouse is moving FAST downstream (left to right) !
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Flood
Notes:
June & I were moored at Museum Gardens in York in December, 1996, when the river started to flood.
We moved 'Oxford Blue' up to the
bottom of Marygate - a higher spot - and went to the pub (Bay
Horse I think) in Marygate (also the
Post Office Social Club).
I remember remarking that
"I thought the bollards at the bottom of
Marygate were to stop vehicles running into the river - perhaps
they are there to stop boats parking in Marygate" !!
However, ..........
We came back to the boat and June
went to bed while I watched the river rise .... and rise .....
and rise and ....
Finally, about 2:00am I got June
out of bed and into a buoyancy aid. I then rang BW for safety
(June doesn't swim and the river was VERY HIGH and VERY FAST !).
BW Freephone got the local foreman,
Alan, who was on standby (but in bed !), to call me on my
mobile. I suggested that I move down to 'The Kings Arms'
mooring which has a higher wall and Alan agreed to meet us
there. We came down, rounded up, and Alan was there to catch a
line. However .......
The river was rising dangerously
and fire service/police were dragging cars away from the river!
I decided it would be better to
moor alongside one of the working barges on Queens Staith
(opposite Kings Staith). Alan could not officially recommend
this but merely commented that "it was
rare for the barges to have trouble". We dropped down,
rounded up, and Alan met us on the gunwale of one of the barges
(don't know how he managed it as we couldn't get ashore later)
Next morning I took the dogs for a walk around the barge gunwales. I telephoned Paul, (then proprietor), at the Ship in Acaster Malbis and he was happy to let us return and moor on the pontoons. We did this and had to take our shoes & socks off and 'paddle' through to the car park to the pub. A nice coal fire warmed us and dried our clothes and 'several' jars helped us internally ! - see picture above. |
