Sailing Story: Pat Montgomery
Since elementary school, Pat Montgomery knew he was meant to be a sailor. “I remember in third grade I did a book report on sailing and I thought— my heart is in sailing,” he said. But it wouldn’t be until years later until he ever even stepped foot on a sailboat. “I started out in…
Sailing Story: Kevin Hopper
Kevin Hopper came to Montana to chase the snow. 8 years in the Flathead Valley and sailing had never even crossed his mind. At least not until the fateful day he saw Go Sail’s job listing in the paper. “It spoke to me,” Kevin said. “So I went and got an interview!” Kevin was confident…
Sailing Story: Edi Stan
As an immigrant from a landlocked country in Eastern Europe to a current resident of a landlocked state within the U.S., sailing wasn’t a likely hobby for Edi Stan to pick up. “As landlocked creatures all of our lives [my family] wondered how I got into sailing,” Edi laughed. “By a random happening I got…
Sailing Story: Jennifer Fisher
Quote: We definitely want to keep sailing on Flathead Lake— it’s one of the best places in the world to sail Jennifer Fisher was in high school when her dad asked her to go sailing with her on Flathead Lake. “My experience with dad…was he didn’t know how to sail,” Jennifer said. So she thought…