Yesterday we helped to deliver a second cousin twice removed sailboat from Mission Bay to San Diego Harbor. It wasn't a breezy day by any means but it was nice and the sun shone for sunset alone. We were aboard a Catalina 320 that needed its mast to be half-stepped with a tabernacle system to get under this one bridge; so if you can picture a rather large mast canting at 45 degrees forward of the bow you might know how we felt as it teetered over the water (and other boats at times). But we safely made it out to open sea with the seals (loose seals)* and were able to sail most of the way.
The sun came out of the clouds just at sunset as we were entering San Diego Harbor, the same harbor that we had sailed into on the Edward D. Rowan twenty-one years before. It was a perfect bookend to the start of this trip.
*Arrested Development Reference.
