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- Rick Outzen: Welcome back. I'm Rick Altson. This is Rick's Blog Live. This is where we connect you to the stories that are going on in the community and to get to listen to and see the newsmakers that are out there. lot of it's stuff that we've reported on the blog, ricksblog.biz. You follow us, you can to the blog, you can follow me on almost all social media and YouTube. ⁓ And please and subscribe. That helps us all the time in building that algorithm. We have great Pensacola Yacht Club's Wimming Sailing Team. won the eighty-ninth annual Yachting Gnosed Ladies ⁓ Championship. first time since 1973, huge for our community ⁓ who in for the Pensacola Yacht Club, it is it's it kind of reminds of our sailing history here. Not a kind of, it we've got Susie Domegala with us, ⁓ who's the Vice Commodore. Susie, thank you joining us. Suzie Domagala: Thank you, Rick. It's my pleasure. Rick Outzen: This was w exciting news, isn't it? Suzie Domagala: We're thrilled. I mean, it has been fifty-three years since we won the Nost from Pensacola Yacht Club. It is a annual regatta held by the Gulf Yachting Association at Christian Yacht Club every year. and it was started by the Bernard Noast family. And it's something that it's a highly coveted trophy that requires years training and and preparation for the regatta. So we're thrilled that we won it this year. Rick Outzen: Well, it you know, it's funny, we were talking a little bit off air. I'd found the article in the news journal when they wrote about the first win ⁓ they call the women the skipperettes, which don't think it that's a title anymore. Suzie Domagala: No, not so much anymore. have changed. Times have changed. Rick Outzen: But w I think the thing that in reading about the press release and and look this was a a victory that built over time. There there's some special associations that y'all set up that help you get sailing team that you had. Yes. the you know one of them is you know Friends of Navy Sailing. ⁓ Talk about that. Suzie Domagala: well we're honored to be part of Friends of Navy Sailing. It's a group that was developed through the Pensacola Naval Air Station and through the Navy. And it allows a special membership category at Pensacola Yacht Club for the individuals who have their education at their service academy, naval academy, Coast Guard so on. And they're receiving training here the Pensacola Naval Air Station. in as part of their flight training, if you will. many of these individuals from the Friends of Navy sailing were on the Navy sailing at the Naval So they come very experienced and very excited to join Pensacola Yacht Club continue with their ability to race while they're receiving their flight training. Rick Outzen: natural partnership though. It really is. And and then y'all have set up temporary membership so that they so they can be members of the be full members of the club and be able to do it. So it it ⁓ link the base it just seems natural. And it of course you had two naval academy grads, one one Coast Guard grad part of the team. it when I was reading I was like, this is ⁓ Such a natural fit. for y'all, I mean for the for PYC, this is the naval of of your organization. Y'all of course are very big with helping us American magic here. Right. You know, cell GP. we're seeing just a ri renaissance of sailing in our community. Suzie Domagala: We are, and the beauty of the Friends of Navy sailing program as well as the No Stragata is that it allows us to the different microcosms of individuals who enjoy racing or even just sailing around the community. ⁓ got folks of all different age ranges, different physical abilities, men, children. And so No Stragata is the perfect example of one of those microcosms, which is women's sailing, particularly. ⁓ And our ability to partner with Friends of Navy Sailing and those Service Academy graduates who already came with a very experienced sailing resume of their own. Right. And then we have been practicing with them for over the past year and selected individuals who were, you know, most involved with the team, who had completed greatest number of training hours with the team ⁓ and really fit well from a perspective. Rick Outzen: Right, right. Well having that having that military background it helps significantly as far as discipline and and that. and it you know, I think y y'all gonna have to build a new wing for their trophies. You know. That's the goal, isn't it? Suzie Domagala: That is absolutely the goal. And you know, for this most win, we have been preparing for it for years. This isn't something that we just decided over, you know, six months or a year ago to complete. we've got a strong group of women, both within the Friends of Navy sailing as well as outside of that ⁓ organization, been working very hard at it. you'll meet Katie in a couple of minutes and she was our team captain this year and just did an absolutely outstanding job. Rick Outzen: Well when you look at the opportunities in sailing now and know, the whole foiling brings a whole nother class it does ⁓ of type of sailing that's attracting a lot of people too, it's it's it's almost of the opportunities that y'all can offer people. Suzie Domagala: It is, it is. And Pensacola Bay is perfect for foiling because it's relatively flat protected water around the entire body of the bay. foiling is still somewhat of a niche within sailing and that's one of those great microcosms I was talking about. you know, you've got the foiling sailors, you've got the more traditionalists, you've got folks ⁓ who are in multiple different types of sailing and just having a ball out on the bay. And we're really enjoying that time. Rick Outzen: Yeah, we're coming up we're coming up on the break, but I think one thing that that y I don't wanna l lose is is that offer classes. We do you do you do you help people learn how to sell. Suzie Domagala: We sure do. And those classes are from, you know, complete novice to more advanced racing. So you don't really have to have sailing or racing experience to engage in the classes. Rick Outzen: Well I what I enjoy about it, and I've done a little bit of it, not not at anywhere, but it's just not having a motor. ⁓ just love being on a boat without having to this revving motor in my head because I all I hear when I s a boat with a big motor is I just want to get somewhere. But in sailing it's it it is you c it's timeless. There's just like time stops. Time and you just feel nature. ⁓ Suzie Domagala: And when you're racing, you are completely committed both physically well as mentally, ⁓ however you think about it. But ⁓ know, it can be very relaxing and quiet, but it can also be very fast and exhilarating at the same time. Rick Outzen: Right. great. Well Susie, thank you so much for coming on. we're have Katie Morgan on just a few minutes. She's the captain of the team. We'll take a break. We'll be like,