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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Wooden Boat Women > Spidsgatters to see and sail

According to Danish spidsgatter expert and a long time member of the very active Copenhagen Amateur Sail Club (KAS in Danish, http://smhavn.dk/con11.php4) there are 52 spidsgatters moored in Svonemollen harbor in Copenhagen. I was lucky to visit and see three yesterday and got to sail on Bel Ami (S38 D1) in a friendly fleet of classics including three spidsgatters, Bel Ami, Ursa and Bombus. The sailing club has been in existence for more than 100 years (more details in another post) and currently teaches sailing to adults, year round from a fleet of early spidsgatter gaffers moored close together and in beautiful condition near the clubhouse. Today, members of KAS cruise to Sweden. This very active club is a must stop for anyone visiting Copenhagen. Photos will be added to Pax Gallery, soon.
June 4, 2009 | Registered CommenterKaci Cronkhite