Left and right:

Bingley 5-Rise Locks

Open Days

January 2012

 

 

     

Lizzie-Jean at the 2011 Skipton Waterways Festival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Left and right:

Skipton Waterway Festival May 2011

 

 

     Lizzie-Jean at the 2011 Skipton Waterways Festival
Lizzie-Jean at the 2010 Saltaire Festival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Left and right:

Saltaire Festival September 2010

 

 

     Lizzie-Jean at the 2010 Saltaire Festival
Children from Belarus after their trip on Lizzie-Jean

 

 Left:

Children from Belarus following their cruise on Lizzie-Jean.  Visit organised by local branch of Chernobyl Children Life Line.

 

 

Right:

Lizzie-Jean and friends

in Hebden Bridge,

September '09

     Lizzie-Jean with friends in Hebden Bridge 2009
Two new narrowboat steerers in the sunshine

 

 

 Left

and

Right:

 

 

"We've

learned how

to steer

a 57ft

narrowboat

on a Boating

Tuition

Cruise!"

     boating tuition really works!
eating a fondue on board Lizzie-Jean

 

 

 

 Left:

A floating Fondue!

 

 

 

Right:

Baby Samuel, our youngest sailor in 2009 (with Mum Shelley)

     mother and baby enjoying cruise
Skippered Canal cruise group pulling narrowboat to towpath

 

 

Left:

Passengers "helping moor Lizzie-Jean"  near Holme Bridge Lock !

                 

Right:

Skipton Town Mayor, Cllr. Carole Manley, with Lizzie-Jean's skipper and crew at May '09 Waterway Festival.  Guess who won the fancy dress competition? 

  Mary Poppins, Bert and the Local Mayor   
   Narrowboat Lizzie-Jean decorated for birthday cruise 

        

 

 

 

Left and Right:

 

Lizzie-Jean awaiting guests for birthday cruises

from Skipton.

 

 

 

 

    Narrowboat Lizzie-Jean decorated for birthday cruise    
     Telegraph & Argus reporter Emma Clayton

  

 

 

Left:

Emma Clayton

(T & A reporter)

enjoying a rest and "a cuppa" during her cruise in April 2009

 

 

 

Right:

Lizzie-Jean almost ready to

leave Holme Bridge

Lock en route

for Gargrave

    

                                                                                                                               

 

             Lizzie-Jean in Holme Bridge Lock

       ducklings enjoying boating

 

 

 

 

Left:

It seems it's not only

humans

who enjoy boating!

 

      

Right:

Cruising through

Farnhiill Woods

(full of bluebells

in Spring)

 

 

                                              

 

 

 

 

       Cruising through Fanhill Woods              
 

 

 

 

                Lizzie-Jean's mascot is Chip the Lion                

        

 

 

 

                          

Left:

Chip the Lion

(from Chipping Campden),

Lizzie-Jean's mascot,

astride the tiller arm

 

 

 

Right:

A watcher on the bank

 

 

 

        

  

            A Muscovy Duck watching the boat cruise by 

 

 Neatly coiled centre rope on narrowboat roof

 

A TIDY END (for now)!

 

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