BLUEMOMENT

On Wednesday my yacht club held its October GM (I know it was Nov!) and I planned to park Marisca off the clubhouse, partake of the meeting and a few jars and spend the night rocked by the passing Dunoon ferries. 30s gusting over 40kts put me off and after a night in JWD I decided to give up so spent yesterday stripping sails, boom, wiring etc. ready for lift out. I have memories of crisp autumn days, pies in the oven, Eberspacher purring and short but very pleasant day sails but this year the forecast looked like unmitigated excrement.
Ah well, if I start off around 7.00am I can get about 6 hours at the boat and be back home in Edinburgh about 8.00pm thanks to Nicola and my bus pass - at ~£25 in diesel + the rest I can't justify using the car just to drink tea, chat and avoid working on the boat!

Well, at least you seriously considered going in your boat. Many would not have even contemplated it.
Excellent use of public transport, which reminds me of my pre car days.
I worked at Kip marina in the 80’s and my girlfriend was a trainee nurse at Edinburgh, opposite George Heriots, now expensive flats. There was an intercity bus that went past Kip, and passed the nursing school, about 17:45, perfect. Another on Monday at 06:00 am back. What great days of convenience they were, a week sailing, a weekend with the girlfriend, then back sailing again on Monday.