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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Spidsgatter Pax > Chart Table, bulkheads & hardware (9) > View of new winch, spinlock and opportunities

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Here, on our FIRST sail of the boat, you can see the new bronze LVJ winch (purchased at Wooden Boat Chandlery in Port Townsend), one of the Spinlock PXR cam cleats in use and a bad lead for the cleat.  The bronze track and luff cars are sticking too much, so we'll switch to Strong Trak this winter. The reefing downhaul is in test phase, with a hook and line to one of the mast cleats. There's no reefing winch yet, which I anticipate I'll need to pull the huge main down in a wind. Always an opportunity to improve a boat!