August: Pax sailing and getting ready for Wooden Boat Festival.
July: Learn to Sail in Port Townsend this summer. Women-only classes at NWMC. Custom classes for 4 students.
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.
It does rain sometimes during the Wooden Boat Festival, but not every day or all day thanks to our location in the "rain shadow" of the Olympic Mountains. In this photo, Kaci is waving to Jan Davis who is aboard the Seaborn 50, Sea Fever, as they head out to sail in the 2003 Festival Sailby. To Kaci's right is Vito Dumas (owned by Alex and Elena Spear), and to her left is Sea Witch, the boat Jo Bailey used while conducting much of the research for their famous books Gunkholing the Puget Sound. Sea Witch is now owned and cared for by Larry and Nancy Eifert. Photo by Jan Davis.