Lost @ Long Beach: article for Wood Hull Yacht Club
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 06:15 Seeking Owners & Info about Danish Spidsgatter FIRECREST 1960-1974 (aka Pax since 1976)
by Kaci Cronkhite for Wood Hull Yacht Club newsletter, Los Angeles, California January/February 2012
How the heck this all started
I sailed around the world on a plastic double-ender, finishing that six year westabout circumnavigation in Port Townsend, Washington, August 2001. A month later, I hopped a ferry from Friday Harbor to attend the Wooden Boat Festival and the morning of my return trip, planes hit the World Trade Center towers. The culture shock of returning to America from a world voyage was compounded that morning exponentially. Staring at the television coverage, hugging strangers, talking to family daily for the first time in nearly a decade, life changed. Love of the ocean married my former love of wilderness and together, that ultimately led me to wooden boats.