Well the weather beat us.

The forecast for the Easter weekend was not nice.

We decided to abandon the planed delivery trip.

As I had paid for a 7 day river licence I was determined to make some use of it.

Friday we headed up the river Cam as far up into Cambridge as we could get.

That is Jesus Green Lock.

We mixed it with some rowing 8's much to my rowing Son's embarrassment.

Then it was back down river through Bait's Bite Lock and Bottersham Lock and onto the Great Ouse to Ely.

My old sailing club at Ely has access to the river and I have always wanted to take Sirenia to the club.

Not one to turn down an opportunity we gave it a try.

The access is through a narrow cut round by the old river authority yard and under a bridge carrying the Ely - Kings Lynn railway.

The opening through the bridge is only about 10', Sirenia has a 9' beam.

We made it and motored over the the sailing club landing stage.

There were no club members there unfortunately.

There were a couple of fishermen in the landing stage.

They muttered about not being allowed engines on the lake.

We took a photo to prove that we had been there and set of back to the river.

Back into Ely and just got moored up before the heavens opened.

We spent the afternoon reading and surfing the net.

Evening meal at the Cutter Inn.

Friends from the YBW forum dropped in for a chat.

Back on board for a cold night!

We were joined on Saturday by another YBW forum member for the trip back to The new sailing club.

We where very glad that we were going in the same direction as the wind when the snow and sleet showers descended on us.

Back at the club we got Sirenia onto her trailer.

The slipway is at 90 degrees to the entrance road and to get pointing at the gate I pulled to the grass opposite and then tried to reverse back onto the road.

This was a mistake the grass was very slippery and I ended up with the trailer wheels well dug in and the Range Rover gust spinning it's wheels.

After a lot of attempts at digging around the trailer wheels and using some tracking the club had we finally got things moving again with the help of another club member with his Discovery.

Finally got Sirenia back home and parked up.

The forecast for today was Snow so we abandoned plans to tow to the coast and stayed home.

The forecast was correct as we had at least 2" of settled snow by mid morning.

Hoping to take Sirenia to the coast next weekend.