Herstory Matters: the Spidsgatter Pax

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April 21, 2012

Kaci Cronkhite

Every wooden boat has a story… The main character is usually the designer or her most famous owner. From there the story usually moves to objective details. Age, weight, height, shape, and all the equipment. Then come the pictures. Sound like Match.com? When Pax arrived in Port Townsend I knew five things for sure about her. She was a curvy double-ender (ah, those pictures), 28’ feet long, built in 1936, and her owner was a man from Canada on his way to get an MFA. A tragic fire had burned out her interior while she was in San Francisco Bay….

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