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 > Varnish and new bunk (5) > Varnish in progress

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The first step in varnishing a boat is to remove the old product.  Here, you can see how that progress is made in a rainy season. A section of varnish is removed while the forecast cooperates, then detail prep work is done with very sharp scapers, Festool sander and a coat or two of Mar-x-ite is put on to "save" your work before it rains. Mar-x-ite will reconstitute itself so the patches don't show in the final coat. Once this side is done, a coat will be painted down the full length of the cabin and varnish applied within the next 48 hours.