Eyemouth to.. Eyemouth

Between all the circumnavigators in Eyemouth, we now have a en excellent selection of weather forecasts.
We have the shipping forecast, but that is really for offshore stuff. More usefully there is an inshore waters forecast, that gives the marine forecast to 12 miles offshore. This is available via VHF from the coastguard broadcast, navtex which does not seem that reliable, and a web page.
There is windguru - http://www.windguru.cz/ if you can find a spot local to you. And there is http://magicseaweed.com/ for week forecasts. You have to take some of these with a pinch of salt, but when you have been stuck in port for a few days, these weather, wind and swell forecasts become fascinating.
So, windguru was projecting little wind but with 2.2m swell from the north. Tim and I decided to wander out of Eyemouth and see what it was really like. The harbour exit was exciting with large swell coming into the entrance, but I know it would get better. Out at sea, I now know what 2.2m of swell was like - fine as long as it was on the nose and consistent. Once we rounded St Abbs again, we seemed to be getting waves from two different directions and started to corkscrew. We decided 10 hours of this would not be fun, so turned back to Eyemouth. The entrance was really fun, following the leading line straight into the harbour mouth with white water on either side. I called Jackie in ch72 to say that we were returning, and they were all there to grab our ropes and help us back.
These are the tracks from our chartplotter, two attempts to pass St Abbs Head. Third time lucky.

After a strong cup of tea and a sleep, we walked towards St Abbs Head on the coastal path to see the sea from the cliffs.