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Sunny Family Sailboat Day on the Bay

·San Francisco, California·#summer#boating#bay area#family#sailing
A person on a sailboat holds a towel while a child sits in the cockpit, with other boats in a marina.

Family sailboat day, three generations aboard. We got everyone loaded at the slip first — the baby napped in the cockpit on a beach towel while the rest of us sorted out towels and gear, and the boom tent kept some shade over the seats until we cast off.

Once we cleared the marina the wind was steady enough to get the jib pulling and we settled in for a long stretch offshore. The baby rode most of it against a shoulder, chewing on that purple-and-yellow teether ring, unbothered by any of it. Grandma kept a sippy cup within reach and everyone else just sat and let the boat do the work.

Back in the harbor by afternoon. The blue tarp went back up over the cockpit and nobody was in a hurry to pack up. Somebody had a radio-controlled sailboat going near the docks — the baby watched it for a while.

A smiling person and a baby holding a teether sit on a boat, with other boats docked in the background.A woman wearing sunglasses and a baby with a teether sit on a boat under a blue canopy with other boats.A man holds a baby clutching his shirt, with two women also on a boat at sea under a blue sky.Two people sit on a boat with a yellow lifebuoy, facing a blue sea and a distant shoreline with dunes.A person in sunglasses and an orange shirt sits on a boat, with the ocean and a white sail visible under a blue sky.A person holding a child on a sailboat, with a reflection of another boat in the person's sunglasses.A person holds a smiling child on a sailboat, with a blue sky and ocean in the background.A smiling man in sunglasses holds a baby on a boat with a blue sky and ocean.

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