Monthly Highlights

Winter: Rewiring lights, refurbishing leaking hatch, install of 2-way compass.

September: 40 women and 11 coats of varnish aboard!

August: Pax sailing and getting ready for Wooden Boat Festival.

July: Learn to Sail in Port Townsend this summer. Women-only classes at NWMC

June: New Hasse sails hoisted!  Running rigging, PT Foundry bowroller and final engine instrument installs.

May: Bulkheads added. Engine runs. Wiring and sails in progress. 

March/April: Pax launched. First video on youtube. New cockpit completed.

February: Mast pulled. New standing rigging, steaming light, wiring.

December - January 2008: Kaci in Australia and Tahiti.

October & November: Plank replaced. Sisters and scarfs. 

August: Kaci Cronkhite becomes new owner and Captain of Pax, a 28' Danish Spidsgatter built in 1936. 

May: Kim Kavin, president of Boating Writers International and owner of CharterWave.com interviewed Kaci in Port Townsend for May/June article in International Yachtsman magazine.

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Welcome!   Woman of the Wind features news, information and links to the people, boats, learning experiences and businesses with whom Kaci Cronkhite works.  It is also an online gallery, blog and program center for International Women Sailing Network; a gallery of wooden boat restoration progress on the 1936 Danish spidsgatter, Pax and a source for information about events like the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.

Through her small Port Townsend business, Concentricom and her role with the Wooden Boat Foundation & Northwest Maritime Center, Kaci writes, manages, gives presentations and promotes women in boating worldwide.

In 2009, watch for Women of the Wind Sail & Adventure Series.  Meet Kaci onboard Pax at the Wooden Boat Festival or stop by Cupola House when you're in PT.  Pax will be available for day charters in Summer 2009.  To sign up, watch this website or send an email via the Contact Us link in the left margin. 

If you're new to this website, here are a few places to start:

"The idea for Concentricom, a business that would combine my life-long efforts to "make the invisible visible" through writing with my experiences internationally on the blue parts of the globe started as I rounded the Cape of Good Hope on a sailing circumnavigation of the world.  There, in the colorful junction of three oceans and with a profound sense of relief for another Cape passed, I glimpsed the future.  From Oklahoma to the world's oceans to Port Townsend, Washington, my home since 2001, I've lived in the wind and learned.  I've learned to thrive in a constant creative flow, to seek balance in extremes and to respond to opportunities with unbound optimism.
As Eleanor Roosevelt said, 'dare to do the thing you think you cannot do'.... Here we are.  Let's go.      
Kaci Cronkhite, during Woman of the Wind presentations.
 
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