Sailing Story: Lizzy Randolph

For Lizzy Randolph, sailing is in her blood. She is a 3rd generation sailor, even though her family has always lived in Montana, a landlocked state.

“I started sailing with my family when I was very young,” Lizzy said.  “I love sailing.”

While most of her sailing experience has been on Flathead Lake in northwest Montana, Lizzy also took a family trip to Belize as a teenager for a weeklong catamaran vacation. 

“It was a sailing catamaran but we weren’t really under sail that much,” she said. That’s why now, with the opportunity to learn to sail in the Virgin Islands, she couldn’t be more excited to actually take the helm outside of Montana waters. 

“I truly thought it was too good to be true,” Lizzy said about Captain Genevieve inviting her to set sail with Go Sail Virgin Islands. “It’s so hard not to sound like I’m bragging when I’m talking about my job.”

Lizzy is the assistant manager at Go Sail, having started as rental agent for Go Sail Flathead Lake two summers ago in Montana. 

“I started with an application on Indeed two summers ago,” Lizzy said. “I don’t know what’s in the cards for me for next summer but having this get started with just an Indeed application has been blowing my mind.”

Since being promoted to assistant manager, she attended the Annapolis Boat Show, which was her first time to the East Coast, and now is headed to the Virgin Islands for the first time too.  

“Getting these experiences is once in a lifetime,” she said. “[I’ve had] a lot of sailing growth, I’ve grown to love it a lot more than I did before.”

Now, although Lizzy is still in college, she thinks the experiences she’s had the last two years as part of Go Sail will likely change the course of her life forever. 

“I’m still going to get my degree and everything but it has absolutely altered [my trajectory],” Lizzy said, explaining that now a whole new world feels open as she gains the skills for, “being able to go anywhere in the world and being able to sail.”