Monday, April 13, 2009  Seattle Women's Sailing Association monthly meeting presentation

Shilshole Marina, condo meeting room A

For time and directions, contact Laura Dangel, SWSA President at 1-866-769-7972.

Finding Pax: Women in the Wooden Boat World  by Kaci Cronkhite

As the only woman on her first ocean passage, then the lone all-woman crews on two different boats crossing oceans (one was Seattle-based Tethys, circumnavigating) from 1993-2001, Kaci's fifteen-year journey aboard boats and into the wooden boat world is full of insights, some hilarious experiences, a harrowing incident or 5 and an inspiring end result.  In August 2007, after a decade avoiding boat ownership, she was smitten with a 1936 Danish double ender named PAX.  The lessons learned on this 28 foot boat in a town world famous for wooden boat restoration and still with few women in the hands-on trades, adds another layer to her journey into the rich history and growing modern network of women sailors, owners and boatworkers she's met in the wooden boat world.  In addition to her role as Managing Director of the Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation, she is an advocate, a mentor, a passionate collaborator for women and men who support women's pursuit of their bluewater and wooden boat dreams.