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You never know

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what the conditions are going to be on the water.

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Sailing

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brings a lot of self-confidence,

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problem solving.

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You've got to be organized,

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but you also have to take things as they come.

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It was 1987 when my husband and I first got into sailboat racing,

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and it was a very male dominated sport.

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Most women that I knew didn't really have a chance to touch anything on the boat,

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but I just kept showing up.

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Sometimes there weren't enough guys there

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to do what needed to be done,

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so I eventually got allowed things to do.

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There was a member of the club here at Edgewater,

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Green Del Bain,

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who had just moved to Cleveland from the Miami area.

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She was involved with the women's sailing association down there,

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so she put up a notice at Edgewater and said,

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who's interested?

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you know,

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just a handful of us raised our hands and said,

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yeah,

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let's do this.

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It went from there.

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Being a coach for the North Coast Women's Sailing

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Association is a point of pride for me.

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I still feel like I'm learning every single time I go out.

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People have assignments on the boat and you've got

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to trust that somebody's going to do that job.

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But if there's a problem,

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they're going to trust that somebody is going to step in and help them out.

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This year we have a person on the helm who has never helmed before.

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She needed a lot of encouragement,

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but she has the ability.

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She's a natural leader and it's so exciting

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to see a person grow in a role like that in such a short period of time.

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Any sport

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that allows individuals to grow as individuals but also as part of a team

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is very empowering.

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I

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love

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watching

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people get the bug.

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To share some knowledge and to see a person take that knowledge and run with it,

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that's the best thing.

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