An evening traffic jam at the Marina Yacht Harbor in San Francisco. This is a follow-up photograph to the image I posted on Friday 2/4 - showing sail craft below the Golden Gate Bridge. This image - taken about a half-hour later - has three sailboat crews striking their rigging and preparing to secure for the night - while a fourth vessel comes around to starboard - heading for their berth.
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@Curly: Hey, Curly - good morning from the 'Other' coast of our fair land. If the experience in the Bay Area is any model - South Shields could still build that marina and double its original size and still do very, very well. More and more of these things appear - all around the bay - year after year and decade after decade and they all seem to fill up before they open. No mind as to the economy or hardships we're facing socially. I look around at all of the expensive boats and shake my head. Millions are hurting, losing their homes, their jobs - yet there is still a lot of money out there.
@Jeff: Hey jeef - there was a pretty stiff breeze from the west as these crews struck the rigging - but you can rest assured that by the time they departed - all would hosed down, well secured, and ship shape!