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.
Entries in Publishing our Stories (5)
Women & Leadership
Have you met your governor, your senators, your representatives? May 18 and 19, I was fortunate to talk with Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire and State Representative Lynn Kessler. They were in town for a tour of the Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation facilities and programs. While here, I talked with them about how for three decades, the Wooden Boat Festival has influenced good things in our community, good relationships between us and seaport towns worldwide. The list is long and women have played a part at every step along the way,
Kaci Cronkhite
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Women in Video
Try it. Type women and sailing, and see what google gives up. In 1992, when I started my doctoral research on women of the wind, there were only two women's names that popped up on the internet search for "women + sailing". Two books. Two entries. Period.
Those two were Naomi James and Clare Francis. Quite notable women, for sure, but far from the whole of women sailing worldwide. Today, a similar thing is happening, or not happening, on Google's You Tube. Type in "women sailing" and today, you'll only find a handful of bonafide women's sailing videos. The Portugal Women's Sailing Team is pretty cool. As is Dee Caffari's inspiring single-hander achievement, or the amazing Ellen MacArthur. Video is the cutting edge for communication these days, so let's all start uploading!
Kaci Cronkhite
in Publishing our Stories
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South Witch Wind
Blowin' stink
It's blowin' stink today in Port Townsend, a south witch wind, for sure. When I went aboard Tethys
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Knockdown, Uraguay
No one expects to hear that their friends are dismasted, lost at sea or ship-wrecked. When we heard
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PL & Kurt of Osprey
We've all got stories. Some of them are passionately inspiring, others the mad excuse we used to propel us around the world on sail boats. Kurt and PL's story is different
Kaci Cronkhite
in Cruiser Reconnections, Publishing our Stories, Book Reviews
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