Monthly Highlights

Summer 2010: Working on two books and two events! My 9th (the 34th annual) Wooden Boat Festival and my first new event for Northwest Maritime Center.  Find out more at the Festival, September 10-12.

Winter/Spring 2010: Moved Pax to Boat Haven slip C#169. Writing progress and work in Oklahoma and Washington.

Fall 2009: Bought Windspiration Point house at Roman Nose State Park, Oklahoma.

Summer 2009: Spidsgatter research trip to Denmark and Sweden; Pax in Wooden Boat Festival. 

2008 Highlights: Pax launched. New cockpit, sails and interior. Kaci does writing research in Australia and Tahiti.

2007 Highlights: Kaci becomes owner/Captain of Pax, a 28' Danish Spidsgatter built in 1936.  Kim Kavin, president of Boating Writers International interviewed Kaci in Port Townsend for May/June article in International Yachtsman.

paxatcustoms.jpgPAX is latin for peace. When an email came to my woodenboat.org address, offering the boat for sale, my life changed. In a microsoft beep, a blink and a breath, I went from fiberglass circumnavigator to wooden boat owner. Little did I know, or expect, that the name of the boat would so complexly and sometimes so ironically, match my emotion, my spirituality, my intellectual understanding of the word and my work. Finding Pax is the journey of a boat from Denmark to Sausalito, from British Columbia to Port Townsend. Every plank and fastener, every rib and sail connects to someone and the effects are deep, sometimes painful and as rich as life can be. This is a work in progress, with test versions onboard PAX at the 2008 Wooden Boat Festival.