# @spoonofsesame on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMzJsdGuQPA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59692334-spoonofsesame-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-01T04:37:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Christin Jely Gilbert (@spoonofsesame) — https://gondola.cc/spoonofsesame

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Some mornings I step onto a racing boat the same way I once stepped into my black dress 🖤 with a faint trace of Le Labo scent on my hair 🌿. There is a space here where femininity does not have to shrink to fit.

The word regatta holds both romance and reality. Romance in the way a spinnaker unfurls like a blooming flower and reality when salt water stings chapped lips. It’s not exactly a gentle sport and for most of its history women like me have been watching from the shore. Out here the energy is decisive and feels thick with a particular kind of masculine intensity with loud voices, quick bursts of commands and bodies that move like they own the space.

In an instant after the whistle blows 📣, it becomes choreography of eight people moving as one 🤝, each trusting the other to play their part. It is one of the most beautiful moving works of art on the sea. There’s a strange intimacy in shared balance and how our bodies lean into the same direction.

The same question creeps back with fear as I pull the zipper on my jacket: Why do I keep coming back? My legs seem to have a mind of their own, carrying me back to the toe rail. I’ve been thrown off balance, clung to the rail with my heart pounding double‑time, shifted weight in an instant, smoothed the jib skirt while the boat heels hard. I wonder if it is the honeymoon glow of sailing or simply the stubborn streak I inherited from my dad.

Or is there more to it? For now, I will keep answering the call 📞.

A strong, supportive community gathers around these races 🤍. The last one was my third Martin Marine Round Bowen Race, one of the largest single‑start races on the West Coast. Every dollar raised goes to the Learn2Sail Program, helping new sailors, especially the young ones, find their place on the water and in the community.

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