Most owners' night experience is a single delayed return that got dark on them — heart rate up, every light on the water a mystery, the harbor entrance somehow unfamiliar. So they avoid it, and that avoidance quietly caps every trip they plan: Catalina runs get rushed, Mexico becomes impossible, and a simple delay becomes a crisis.
The fix is one good supervised night. We depart at dusk so your eyes adapt with the light, work through real traffic identification — what every configuration of lights actually means when you see it, not on a flashcard — get the radar and electronics doing real work, and finish with a night entry back into San Diego Bay. After this, dark is just another condition.