The Heritage Centre
The Heritage Centre

Seeing more of Grimsby and Cleethorpes as the wind easterly force 4 to 5, becoming 6 did not seem suitable to sail in our open Humber aspect. Some shopping in Grimsby, lunch at The Pizza Hut and a visit to The Heritage Centre after which I got some Humber charts and guides from the chandlers and planned our trip to York for tomorrow night

I was awake early and listening to the weather forecasts from which I learnt that the Humber forecast was Easterly force 4 to 5, becoming 6 which did not seem suitable for our open Humber aspect and so we were here for another day at least. This was all right as we all wanted to go shopping and see more of Grimsby and Cleethorpes and Daniel was hoping that we would make slow progress to be in York at the weekend for a rendezvous with Angela. There was the normal wait for security door to be opened as the system of having a resident on each pontoon does not seem to be working here, but it was not a problem for some time as I wanted to catch up with my journal which had taken second place to other chores since Ely.

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At least the land weather was a fine and sunny. Getting impatient, Diana, Daniel and Debbie scaled the fence to go food shopping in nearby Sainsbury's and I followed their example to go and have a shower. Once we had all finished, Daniel took Debbie up to Grimsby library and I joined Diana and Della in making the walk up to town to meet her there. By this time, Daniel had caught the train home to make another rendezvous with Angela. We enjoyed our shopping in Grimsby as there was just about every type of shop and a whole new undercover shopping centre in addition to the traditional shopping streets. Lunch at the Pizza Hut and then we came back to the dock area to visit the Heritage Centre which depicted the Grimsby fishing industry and had several practical exhibits that intrigued the girls.

I also managed to drop in on the Grimsby chandlers, South Bank Marine, and get a couple of Associated British Ports charts of the Humber for plotting our further trip upstream. Once back at the boat, I planned our progress from Grimsby to Kingston-upon-Hull by first listening to the weather forecast, then talking to the Royal Dock and using the charts and computer to predict that if we penned out of Grimsby at 1730 we could easily make Hull during the evening. I sat up late refining this plan and printing it out and then updated my journal before turning in.