Big day!

I talked to my friend Emily tonight after our statistics class and sailing is a go tomorrow.  Last Thursday she apparently told the coach that I'd be coming tomorrow, so that's good.  I'm meeting Emily and the rest of the team outside of the athletic center on campus at 2:15 to carpool down to St. Pete.  Practice begins at three and goes until dusk.  Emily won't be sailing out of Bayboro Harbor tomorrow with the rest of the team because she might be in a race on the J/24 this weekend and the coach has sent her and a few others to learn how to fly a spinnaker on a Sonar at the St. Pete Yacht Club sailing center (where I sail the Ideal 18 and Rhodes 19).  The J/24 that she might be racing is the same one that I sail at the Waterfront.  So, I'll be on my own tomorrow, but I'll have time on the ride down to meet people and figure out what I'm getting myself into.  

With close to 12 knots of wind and temperatures in the mid to upper 70's it's looking like we'll have perfect sailing weather tomorrow.  I have my gear and the coach knows that I'm coming - all that's left now is to show up.  As Woody Allen once said, "Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."  That theory worked for me three years ago when I became a rower.  I'm hoping that it holds true now.  I don't know what will happen tomorrow, but that's okay; I'm just glad I have the chance to find out.  Tomorrow, I become a collegiate sailor.  Wish me luck!