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- Rick Outzen: Welcome back. I'm Rick Outson. This is Rick's Blog Live. Thank you for watching. show is getting a lot attention, and it's because you keep sharing the message. Please, when see it on ⁓ YouTube, like, ⁓ subscribe to Don't Color on the Dog, which is all part of the Inweekly Empire. We just had Suzy Vice Commodore, talking about this win that the women's sailing team had. the DOS trophy. It is an unbelievable that took over ⁓ lot of years. It didn't happen all at one time. We've got the team captain with us. Yeah. Morgan, thank you so for coming on. Katy Morgan: Of course. Thank you so much for having us. Rick Outzen: Tell us a d go through the roster on the team and tell us just a little bit about Katy Morgan: Of course. Okay, so my co-captain this year was Mallory Edwards, and Mallory and I actually grew up sailing against each other. met back in 2015, I want to say, down at Southern Yacht Club in New Orleans at the Light Air Clinic. you're gonna see a reoccurring theme. I grew up with all of these girls and they're all my best friends. Celia Houston was on our team again, grew up in Texas together, and we started sailing at the Texas youth sailing circuit back in 2010. and then Aubin Hattendorf, again another Texas girl, grew up sailing with her at Rush Creek Yacht Club. And we Linia Forrestburg. I did not grow up sailing with her, but she is a great addition to our team and we adore her. Rick Outzen: Well it's a ma you know t you know, th three of them are Academy grads, ⁓ Naval Academy and Coast Guard Academy. was it difficult to blend with them because they come from a much ⁓ come from a very disciplined background. ⁓ Katy Morgan: Definitely not at all. We biggest goal we have at Pensacola Yacht Club is we are trying to make sailing fun again. All of us have sailed at such a high caliber that you of lose your love for sailing. And so that was our whole goal with the Thursday night sailing and any other event is we're gonna go in, we're gonna have the most fun that we possibly can. And so I can't think of a better team to spend all of our time with. Rick Outzen: Well talk about how you got involved in the yacht club and and even getting involved in in competing, developing the sailing team. Katy Morgan: Of course, we moved to Pensacola just over a year ago. My husband is also in the Navy and right now the Leah is on for the Fawn sailing program. and when we moved here, I knew that I wanted to get back into sailing and take it to the next level and be competitive again. Our friends, the Madigans, were here before us. Now they're in San Diego, again, another Navy family. they invited us to the club one night and said, hey, we're gonna go and sail, come and join us. And that's all took. We joined, I think, the next day and haven't looked back since. Rick Outzen: The the how w w how does w the training work out? How often did you train? What what was that like? Katy Morgan: So Thursday night is our night that we kind of go out and sail all together. That's when we can get the most boats on the water. It's hard with the girls not knowing their schedules until the night before. Of course they have their night operation training and anything else that you can imagine. so ⁓ night was our hard schedule and then every in a while we'd throw in a Thursday practice. Or f Saturday practice. So Rick Outzen: far as the competition itself, there's events, right? talk about the different events that that go to win the championship, how do you win? Katy Morgan: Definitely. So we participate in the GYA, the Golf Yachting Association, and that's basically just every weekend another club hosts an event. So we try and go to as many of those as we possibly can. I'm lucky enough to where I get to sail with my husband. some of the other girls sail with each other on the team and then with the GYA you can switch in and out of every boat and you can kind of sail with whoever you want to sail with. So we just try and make it a priority to sail with each And at all these different clubs. And a lot of these girls that are at the events are the same girls that you're gonna be competing against at most. And so seeing how you're gonna stack up at all of these events and seeing kind of what their sailing tendencies are. Right. Rick Outzen: Then which which boats best for y how do you match up against them and what so what are the type of different boats? Katy Morgan: So at the GYA events you have Opties, four twenties, ⁓ fifteens, which is what we won the Nost in, and then Vipers. And Vipers are what the guys are gonna sail the Lipton cup in in a couple of weeks. Rick Outzen: Okay. All right. So ⁓ how did you know, was and th was at Pas Christian. Yes. Right. the how did the event Did y'all start strong and stay strong or did were the was there any you were in danger? Katy Morgan: We started strong and we stayed really strong. it doesn't normally happen that way. Normally you have a couple of flukes of a race, but I think our lowest score the entire regatta was a three ⁓ that's pretty good. Rick Outzen: Yeah, gosh. it's just it ⁓ for club you could just see it in Susie's face how ⁓ excited is and I'm I've talked other members that you know, this is again, ⁓ a long period of time, fifty-three years since this last was done. the what makes sailing appealing to you? Katy Morgan: Sailing is appealing to me because it's a lifelong sport. I started sailing when I was five in summer camps and then I didn't start competing until I was ten. But you have people on the water from the age of five years old all the way up until ninety. So you can really do it forever. It's just like golf. Rick Outzen: Okay. So when you said that you you had the lowest score you had was a three, what does a three mean? Third place, okay. Okay. thought it was something more complicated that you had to go through a hoop or something. Katy Morgan: Third place. and golf have a lot of similarities. The biggest one being you want the lowest score possible. So I ⁓ remember our exact point count overall, but ⁓ did a pretty solid job. Rick Outzen: How many races were involved in it? Nine. So gosh. then do you have a total point score at the end? Correct. Katy Morgan: I believe there are nine. Again, I'm sorry, I don't have it off the top of my head. Rick Outzen: That's okay. No, that's fine. That's fine. if wanted to get involved, let's say you know, someone had a daughter that they wanted to get involved, what's the best way to do? Katy Morgan: That. Get them involved in junior sailing early. have tons of after school programs at Pensacola Yacht Club. They summer camps, they have clinics. You look at the website and you can find anything. And if you are older than high school and wanting to get into sailing, there's an here called the Women's Collective and it's run by Lauren Chapman and she does an amazing job getting people out on the water, teaching people how to sail. Last night they had a seminar on how to buy a boat. ⁓ So are a ton of options and a ton of resources, especially here in Pensacola, but definitely get your kids in summer camp. ⁓ Rick Outzen: You've traveled a lot. How do we f measure up as a sailing community? We've got about a minute left before we have Katy Morgan: Yeah, Pensacola is the best place to sail. We have really consistent wind, not a whole lot of current. Pensacola Yacht Club is a great facility to host regottas out of and I'm really proud to be a member there and be able to show off our club to other people. Rick Outzen: Well congratulations on the win. Thank you. I really appreciate you coming on. Of course. We'll we'll go ahead and take a break. We'll be right back after we pay a few bills. I'm Rick Onson.