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Women's Sailing Instruction
These are programs or instructors with women-focused curriculum.-
Captain Nancy Erley, 2X circumnavigator & very experienced teacher is primary instructor.
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Lesile Steinkoenig. Instruction based in San Diego.
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Personal growth for girls and women through Tallship sailing in San Francisco. Experience-based academic programs.
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Women-only option with small student/teacher ratio. All taught by women instructors in Thunderbird 26' boats.
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Captain Ginny Gerlach, an experienced cruiser and excellent teacher teaches aboard her new Catalina 34, Keppel Islands, Australia.
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Captain Gail Atkinson offers charters in Canada's Ocean playground aboard her traditional Nova Scotia schooner.
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Captain Ann Ford, based in Hawaii, is an instructor, a delivery skipper and Captain of a dolphin watching boat along the Wainae Coast. A mother whose spent her entire life by the ocean, Ann loves to share her knowledge.
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Cruising Websites
Online resources that keep me in touch with world cruising.-
Tony Herrick's site. Check out the cruiser logs and routes.
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Started due to December 2004 Tsunami. Stories continue.
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Great country info, worldwide. Updated by his daughter regularly.
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Amazing satellite images & Marine Forcast Synopsis
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Not the prettiest site, but you can see daily boat positions and listen in on the Pacific Seafarer's Ham Radio Net.
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Bob McDavitt is THE weatherman of New Zealand. Great high seas and regional NZ weather or sign up for personal (paid) personal forecasts.
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This is updated daily and includes wind arrows.
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Writing & Publishing Links
Seriously helpful editorial and publishing links.-
Where to find the who's who of writers, editors, photographers and broadcasters in the international marine industry.
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Women Owned or Managed Businesses
Boats & Boating Businesses (includes women managed departments or endeavors)-
The world's most trusted yacht vacation resource. Owned by writer Kim Kavin.
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Carol Hasse & company have been making award-winning traditional and cruising sails since 1983.
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Lisa Vizzini, owner and partner of PT Rigging. Besides her rigging expertise, Lisa's an active small boat sailing instructor and frequent speaker at regional events.
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Kaci Cronkhite & Concentricom
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What's New?
July: Learn to Sail in Port Townsend this summer. Women-only classes at NWMC on Thunderbird 26's with excellent woman instructors. Custom classes for 4 students. Grab your friends and call us to book your class.
June: New sails hoisted! Running rigging, PT Foundry bowroller, running rigging and final engine instrument installs.
May: Bulkheads added. Engine runs. Wiring and sails in progress. Check the Spidsgatter Pax gallery for the latest photos. Kaci presents Woman of the Wind to 100 7th graders. Presents A Life of Pax for Wooden Boat Wednesday, May 28.
March/April: Pax launched. Video on youtube. New cockpit completed.
February: Mast pulled for new standing rigging, steaming light, wiring and a careful look.
December & January: Kaci in Australia and Tahiti.
October & November: Hull work prority underway as paint season is ending.
September 12: More than 100 women join IWSN at Wooden Boat Festival. Join online here.
September 8: Kaci presents "Women of the Wind" about the circumnavigation with Nancy Erley and their all-woman crew. Wooden Boat Festival, Saturday September 8 at 3:30. Admission is free with Festival Ticket.
August 19: Kaci Cronkhite becomes new owner and Captain of Pax, a 28' Danish Spidsgatter built in 1936. See the Photo Gallery here.
May 22: Kim Kavin, president of Boating Writers International and owner of CharterWave.com interviewed Kaci in Port Townsend for May/June article in International Yachtsman magazine.
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