Eyemouth, Thursday 6th July 2017

  What a fun day, i didn't get any further in circumnavigating but met lots of new people and did fun things.

  I had decided not to sail today, largely because the forecast was for extremely light winds.
  Last night had a curry and the chap serving us was chatting and got very wistful and dreamy when he was talking about seeing the sailing boats from the cliff when he's out for a run, imagining what it might be like to sail. I was several sheets to the wind and rashly offered to to take him out today. Well, at 6am it was well drizzly and wet and I was regretting my impulse, thinking that it would be pretty miserable being out, wet, and having no wind. So I did some washing in the Eyemouth marina facilities and, surprisingly, by the time came for Varun to contact me (11am) things had cleared up a lot.

  Varun was like a pig in excrement, splashing his hand in the water, marvelling at the wildlife and looked so pleased when I got him to steer the boat. All the time he was astonished that you don't need any paperwork or qualification to be allowed to enjoy such simple pleasures and I really enjoyed seeing him savouring being on the sea faor the first time.

  Then got back in for 2.30 and met up with work mate Neil and his family who are holidaying very nearby, hung out for a bit in the pub, then went back to boatie and showed 'em around. Neil's  mum Anne persuasively convinced me to take 'em out for a pootle in boatie so off the four of us went, and it was infectious the enjoyment that, particularly Anne, had for messing about on the water, even though it started raining and she just had a t-shirt on.

 I've had a lot of pleasure today from sharing boatyness with other inexperienced people with boatie in their soul.