Someone asked me before I moved on to Si Bon and out to a mooring ball what I was going to do when it rained. I think I gave them some sort of smart answer like "it never rains in San Diego". Mother Nature being who she is decided to test me and it rained almost all day and night on Tuesday. It wasn't really all that bad, I did the same as you would do and tried to stay in out of the rain. The fun started yesterday when before getting in the dinghy I under estimated how much water was in the dink from the rain, I fired up my 8 HP outboard and took off....it soon became apparent that the dink had a fair amount of water in her..it was slooshing about back and forth, my shoes were soaked immediately, the powerful 8 HP was straining and I knew I had to get the dink on a beach, drag it up out of the water and drain it..which is what I did. When I got to the dinghy dock I took off my wet shoes and socks, grabbed my duffel bag, noticed I had ripped out my cammies, and headed to my car..a sight for sore eyes..especially here in Coronado. "no honey that man lives on his yacht in the bay..he just looks homeless".