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HEY tell me I’ve had the second-best day of my life. It fell on a calm day last November when I fulfilled a long-held desire to become the owner of a yacht, a Westerly 33 ketch built in 1978, a venerable dame of the seas called. As to when the best day of my life will come, they know that, too. Salt-rimed. That is the first rule of the sea.