Lost @ Long Beach: article for Wood Hull Yacht Club

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.

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International search for Danish Spidsgatter history

Sitting in the opalescent light of a fall morning in France, I can't help but pause from my writing to watch the dew from the night shimmer one last time as the mid morning breeze shakes it from the waving grass blades. Since dawn, there've been a dozen emails to Denmark, two to the US and three back from DK confirming appointments as strangers become friends in my search for Pax' history. Today's email uncovered an elder boatbuilder from Samso who may remember the boat and a man north of Copenhagen who remembers her from his time on the junior sailing team at KDY (Royal Danish Yacht Club). He sailed with the two daughters of the first owner on record in Denmark, so far.

There are many changes to Pax since she was in Denmark.

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