The International Women's Sailing Network Blog began in August 2005. The blog is written by Kaci Cronkhite, with fragments of conversations, emails and other women's experiences woven in, as they allow. You can correspond with Kaci by using the Contact Us link on the home page, or Post a Comment on the blog entry. If you make a mistake and want your comment removed, that's easy. Just send an email.
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Summer/Fall Seminars planned in Port Townsend
As Pax gets her sails, her engine and her wiring completed the next few months, Kaci is planning a series of small group seminars using the boat and facilities in Point Hudson marina. Topics will include: Your winches, your engines, your friends; Wind & Tides; Words on the Wind: a day of boating and writing; Women Aweigh: on captains and confidence; and suggestios are welcome!
First 100 IWSN Members
The public "launching" of the International Women Sailing Network was a great success. More than 100 women joined the network. 41 are boat owners. Thanks to Captain Sue Hoover (Quantum Leap) and Captain Kim Bushnell (Puna) for staffing the booth all weekend while I ducked in and out managing the event. In the coming weeks, I'll email everyone who signed in. This network thrives by the connections made, by the generosity of women who want to teach matched with the determination and daring of the women who want to learn. My hope is that it will be fun, inspiring, empowering and that it helps those of you who own boats, those who want to be on the ocean and those who have businesses that serve women boaters grow. Sailing around the world with women wasn't my dream, initially. It was the one passage, then the next passage, and a daily routine that evolved to a circumnavigation. Now, as owner of a boat, I am starting another voyage, one step at a time. I look forward to working with women shipwrights, riggers, sailmakers, engineers, mechanics and educators. I'll share the stories with you and invite your stories and membership with your boats and your sailing dreams. Our emails will be confidential. Enjoy September!
Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 07:32
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