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:
- Kaci Cronkhite Presentations
- Progress on the book "When a Cowgirl Goes to Sea."
- News about the International Women's Sailing Network
- News about Port Townsend's Northwest Maritime Center and Wooden Boat Foundation.
"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.