Competitors in the York Raft Race, from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club, paddle up the Ouse, under Lendal Bridge. Winner of the 43-strong home-fashioned fleet was Rift Raft; she was made of three aircraft drop tanks and rowed by Mike Watt am and Barry Helstrip. B. Smith, the captain of Ashytalk entered by Rowntree Mack of Halifax, signed on four Shoreline members for the voyage. More than £1,100 was raised in sponsorship and riverside collections.

photograph by courtesy of Yorkshire Post.