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Welcome! Here you'll find news, information, photographs and links to the people, wooden boats, educational organizations, and businesses with whom Kaci Cronkhite works to inspire and promote women in the bluewater world.

Meet Kaci onboard her boat Pax at the Wooden Boat Festival, year-round at Center Dock in Point Hudson Marina or stop by historic Cupola House where she works in Port Townsend.

Pax, a classic spidsgatter built in Denmark, is available for afternoon sails with Kaci starting July 2009. To sign up, send an email via the Contact Us link.

Highlights of Kaci's current work and inspiration...
"The idea for Concentricom swept into my life like a deep ocean upswell and was as clear as the wind shift ahead of an Oklahoma hailstorm.  The place was the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Rounding that last major Cape on our circumnavigation, I could see home.  Ahead, on the other side of the Atlantic was the next phase of my life.  The specifics weren't clear, but I knew I would build on my experiences. I knew my life-long passions to empower women to leadership, to connect people across cultures and to write and tell women's stories, share the poetry of nature and to connect people through the things that we love, would remain the core of my work.  Concentic circles, with a common center. 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'....
Kaci Cronkhite,during Woman of the Wind presentations.

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