When I was growing up with SAIL magazine, Patience Wales was the editor. I was maybe 18 when I pitched my first story to her. She politely declined and encouraged me to keep trying. When I was asked, many moons later, to become editor of , the irony wasn’t lost on me. Nor was the sense of responsibility and legacy. Patience had retired in 2001, but her shoes were still the ones that, in my mind, I was attempting to fill as an editor, as a sailor, and as a woman in a male-dominated sport and career. I didn’t fool myself for a minute that I actually could.
