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The trailer hitch groaned as Leo backed his truck toward the shoreline, the sun dipping low enough to turn the bay into liquid gold. On the trailer sat a 1982 Hobie Cat 16, its fiberglass hulls weathered but white, and its trampolines tight as a drum.
The wind picked up, and the leeward hull sliced deep while the windward hull rose, hovering inches above the whitecaps. Leo leaned out on the trapeze wire, suspended over the rushing water, his heart hammering against his ribs. He began to raise the mainsail
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