Kaci Cronkhite
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.

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FAQ About International Women Sailing > Pirates, thieves and guns. (2 entries)

Dangerous people at sea and in harbor.
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  • Should women carry a gun?
    We didn't and if I go out again, I wouldn't. Guns must be declared, or your boat is at risk of seizure in most countries. Guns are a commodity ...
  • Did you ever sail off the coast of Somalia?
    On Tethys first circumnavigation, Nancy and crew went up the Red Sea. That was 1993 and even then, pirates were a worry, especially off the coast of Ethiopia and Yemen. On ...