I've just completed my third day at the Tall Ships event and I'm absolutely exhausted!
Maybe it's the early starts, maybe it's that howling wind or maybe it's the vast swell of crowds. Who knows.
It's been fantastic though and the sheer level of people attending the weekend is amazing.
I had a chat with one crew member from Warwickshire earlier, who has never visited Liverpool before, and he said since the moment he stepped off the train at Lime Street he'd been struck what a friendly city it was.
He was mightily impressed and plans to return to see it properly.
Now I know not everything has gone swimmingly.
I think the level of crowds who turned up at noon on Friday overwhelmed the organisers, and together with the royal visit, bridges having to be raised to get ships through and some late arrivals it conspired to create a horrible log-jam of humanity.
Added to which it was raining.
But since then, despite the massive, snaking queues, people have been so stoical and patient and the sun has even come out occasionally.
My favourite bit of Saturday was the crew parade, where pirates singing "ar, ar, ar, ar ar ar ar, Hey Jude" mingled with hokey-cokeying fairies, chanting sea cadets, a dragon, and at least one strapping Latvian Pippi Longstocking with an adam's apple.
Later on a thousand of them gathered at the convention centre for a party. I saw a gaggle of smartly-dressed Russian sailors from the Mir sitting around outside when I came out of the Echo Arena.
Today I spent quite a bit of time down at the Wellington and Sandon docks which were absolutely heaving. I went on a few of the big boats including the Capitan Miranda, where Latin American pop was blaring out, the Mir, the Pelican and the Stavros.
What was nice as well was that each boat has a stamp, and people can have their books stamped as they go round as a souvenir.
There's still some discussion over what will happen about the Parade of Sail tomorrow.
It all depends on this vicious westerly - if it continues to blow like it has been, there won't be much sail on view. It will be more like a parade of masts.
Fingers crossed.
