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I loved it all!” -Great Grandma Eva Buckingham Cronkhite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/9d61b709-8d97-4d57-8938-e4e499d36c58/IMG_4491.JPG Works - Nature Walks English Channel overlooking Jersey from Cape Carteret, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/bace106f-f00f-4807-88e0-ce6fa1afb9c8/IMG_9065.JPG Works - Nature Walks Arizona desert 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/4f39d263-7127-49f8-8b1c-0ca16850b081/IMG_4500.JPG Works - Nature Walks 12th century ruins of St. Germain chapel, Normandy, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/0baa5f2a-d920-4cba-8ea9-70249afa9b54/IMG_5877.JPG Works - Nature Walks Island of Öja, Swedish Archipelago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/599ff358-6f58-417d-bee9-01e016476fb9/689901A5-0C56-4A2E-AAD5-3573F23E46ED.jpg Works - Nature Walks Mon Klint, Denmark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/1684070981701-JJACWVB2SAOMAT99AY14/0E1E8494-3FCA-4DFB-B3D6-73AA4C689000.jpg Works - Nature Walks Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/0dd9dc08-d8e2-4ad3-bf24-c9596340e0b0/IMG_2146.JPG Works - Nature Walks Point Wilson, Port Townsend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/3b40f50c-891b-4a30-a616-2aedb5452f7c/IMG_4608.JPG Works - Nature Walks Kawau Island, New Zealand https://kacicronkhite.com/works/cowgirl monthly 0.5 2023-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/093f541d-49d1-454f-b919-1674fc30dea7/IMG_0901.JPG Works - Cowgirl Mom took this photo of me at 3 on Frosty, Papa's favorite mare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/f3d8e98f-92b3-4bf0-808e-d8ee3d032d98/IMG_0899.JPG Works - Cowgirl My dad took over the Cronkhite Ranch when he and mom got married in 1960. I came along 9 months later. If he hadn't died in 1977, I don't think I'd have ever left that land and legacy. But, I did and on the ocean, found an even older ancestral home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/28544787-e7f2-4fe7-9b00-606e7b368485/IMG_6975.JPG Works - Cowgirl Rawhide, my soul horse. He taught me how to ride, but even more--how to read cattle, listen to the wind, and hang on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/24f315de-51dc-44c0-9afe-b4e97189f267/IMG_5809.JPG Works - Cowgirl Times, they were a changing. This magazine gave me glimpses of girls and women in other parts of America... and through horse bloodlines, the world! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/81ad9683-1b8a-40b9-816c-ae0fdf6fb531/IMG_2024.JPG Works - Cowgirl End of the Trail, an iconic marble statue that was under construction during my K-12 years. It made my heart ache, but I made sure to find and stand near it during every school trip to the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. It was my first stop in 2010, as an adult. Still, the water runs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/5af4669a-e878-43d7-8340-b54c0b7a4509/IMG_6396.JPG Works - Cowgirl What's left of great grandpa Will Cronkhite's horse barn. Although our family has been gone from the ranch for 40 years, I've been fortunate to have permission to visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/e3ab0a62-953c-4800-830a-b6095865d5c9/IMG_5185.JPG Works - Cowgirl Still the smartest corrals I've ever used. Designed and built by my dad. We worked cattle here the day he had his first heart attack. Long gone from our family, I can still hear his whistle and shout, the cows and calves bawling for one another, and the wind. Always, the wind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/4766f0bf-5641-4116-94ae-99c211d64ada/IMG_8636.JPG Works - Cowgirl From the front and back. Love those Quarter horse curves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/144508b6-d96c-4113-879f-14fa68ffa93f/IMG_5458.JPG Works - Cowgirl Two of my siblings--a sister and a brother--still have cattle in their lives. On visits, we've always got an errand or three to do and I do so gladly. No better way to spend time with my sibs than with cow shit on our boots and the wind in our hair. https://kacicronkhite.com/works/ocean-sailing monthly 0.5 2023-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/9b618383-bf96-4427-9f63-9b4a59dff9c5/TethysEquator.2001.JPG Works - Ocean Voyages Morning watch onboard TETHYS while crossing the equator in the Pacific in 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/79b5bfef-20b5-4d64-bfba-553168ceb2c1/capeyorkkc.jpg Works - Ocean Voyages At the helm of Nancy Erley's TETHYS while we rounded Cape York (NE corner of Australia) in 1997. Our double-handed circumnavigation--which on some passages included one or two women learning crew (a total of 19! from USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa) began in 1995 and ended in Port Townsend, 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/3cfd880b-8ea3-4c00-be77-235f01d7e123/1D2AC885-A2C2-4A84-A525-D32FEE85B906.JPG Works - Ocean Voyages In the Indian Ocean, in 1997, I had the good fortune to meet Egon and Silvija Brandell (Sweden) who built their 46' fiberglass boat MAGNUM BONUM in the 1970s. In 2019, 2022, and 2023, I've sailed with Silvija (now 76) in the Baltic, North Sea, and Kattegat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/50d4223c-452a-4ad0-904b-4d74737c78ea/IMG_6290.JPG Works - Ocean Voyages Selfie of Denmark's Mon Klint (white cliffs) in 2022 with Silvija (builder, captain, owner of MAGNUM BONUM) and Latvian friend Janis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/779337c4-7499-447c-bea0-f7e22b6b724a/HDWave.2023.JPG Works - Ocean Voyages Sailing into the sunrise, on approach to Cape Pillars, SE corner of Tasmania, Australia double-handing HOLGER DANSKE with owner/captain Joy Phillips. Our 450 nm voyage saw winds as high as 35kts and breaking waves in Bass Strait that are the stuff of legend. A typical day in the Southern Ocean. Salty! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/c22b8a49-d87b-496f-9281-aaae0c34f8a8/IMG_2204+2.JPG Works - Ocean Voyages At the helm of Joy Phillips' HOLGER DANSKE in Tasmania's Storm Bay--after rounding Cape Pillars and Cape Raoul. Just in time for my 7th Australian Wooden Boat Festival! https://kacicronkhite.com/works/book-finding-pax monthly 0.5 2023-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/1683328426630-JYV1W7C6U2JC8KFIMTMN/C11.firecrest%252Bhatch.jpg Works - Book: Finding PAX One of my fateful finds was a beautifully preserved photo album of this little sailor girl whose father, a dentist, owned PAX from 1938-46--before and through the Occupation of Denmark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/16ab3bad-3f77-4943-88c5-c21f279137d8/IMG_5312.JPG Works - Book: Finding PAX What a joy to spend time in Port Townsend with the "little girl in the life ring"--at 79. Neither of us will ever forget our sails together on PAX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/acbbc9e2-5383-4c83-83f2-c4677dceb9dc/C6KacionSkarven.jzd.JPG Works - Book: Finding PAX In Copenhagen with owner Erik Petersen, aboard SKARVEN, the 45m2 class MSJ Hansen designed spidsgatter which, in 1935, Karl Thomsen built right before PAX. With only 18 spidsgatters this size ever built, it was remarkable to find this sister ship still sailing and in excellent condition! Interior details helped to prove PAX's origins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/5b120eec-24c6-4d18-9eaf-8263356ce520/photo.JPG Works - Book: Finding PAX Per Bertelsen, grandson of the original owner of PAX. Thankfully, Per's daughter, a sailor and doctor in Copenhagen, saved the original log of the maiden voyage from Denmark to Belgium via Kiel Canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/1683328492369-HUPU2FCFWNGRTG8FN23Q/IMG_9480.jpg Works - Book: Finding PAX “Vær omhyggelig og lav et hæderligt stykke arbejde, for når båden er færdig, kan man ikke se, hvor mange timer der er brugt (på at bygge den), men man vil altid kunne se resultatet.” “Always take care and do a decent job because when the boat is finished you cannot see how many hours used but you and others will always see the result.” -KARL THOMSEN, boatbuilder Kalundborg, Denmark, circa 1961 Quote from interview with Thomsen’s last apprentice, Danny Laursen, in Kalundborg, Denmark, October 2014. https://kacicronkhite.com/works/wooden-boats monthly 0.5 2023-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/b698bd83-571e-482e-a42b-9325eff1c135/IMG_5002.JPG Works - Wooden Boats Two of the exquisitely maintained traditional classic boats of New Zealand. I took this shot during the Trillium Trust Regatta 2018. When in Auckland, be sure to visit the public waterfront dock devoted to classic yachts. Display placards describe each boat's history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/85df9d7a-5aae-4ed3-a088-9d603d2cbaa4/IMG_8962.JPG Works - Wooden Boats The Old Boat Association of Denmark (DFAEL) and Copenhagen Amateur Sail Club (KAS) compete in friendly sail races every Thursday in summer off the shores of Copenhagen. Over the years, I've had the chance to see Spidsgatters, Folkboats, 6Ms, Dragons, Tumlarens and other classic Scandinavian designs... sometimes, like here, while sailing as crew on PAX's sister ship, Henrik Effersoe's beautiful 38m2 Spidsgatter BEL AMI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/1612c646-5c1e-40e9-8e74-2f241578137c/063C904C-3520-4B43-ABA8-AAE7B0079686.jpg Works - Wooden Boats MURRELET sailing off Port Townsend, Washington (USA). Built and sailed by Bertram Levy. I took this shot aboard PAX in the summer of 2022. . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/1683315804186-Z8RJYCNH3H5RO9Y7WV25/IMG_0156.jpg Works - Wooden Boats A stunning shot of BRITTANIA (1919) taken while I was sailing with friends in the 2019 Parade of Sail off Hobart, Tasmania. During the Parade, the River Derwent teems with hundreds of wooden boats of all shapes and sizes. This is the first event of the biannual, 4-day Australian Wooden Boat Festival held odd years, February. Remember: That's summer down under! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/42582039-4313-4327-96ab-6127b2aafbc6/IMG_7154.JPG Works - Wooden Boats One of the many traditional Dutch Skûtsje we met in the canals of Frisia and North Holland in 2022. Each was uniquely painted and/or carved. Sizes ranged from about 25' to over 100'. Beamy with shallow drafts and rigged with giant leeboards these boats were built for heavy cargo, wild winds, and shifting sands of the tidal islands of Netherlands. Gorgeous! https://kacicronkhite.com/works/windspiration monthly 0.5 2023-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/23445f3a-cbc9-46b5-994e-f46948f14309/B78C230E-924D-4189-86BB-06E551904D69.jpg Works - Windspiration Tree Cloud Over Mount Baker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/f7117285-6fcf-4fbd-aced-3e4a072ac7f9/IMG_7123.JPG Works - Windspiration Waves of Blue Stem in the Oklahoma Wind https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/fd435e9a-5dad-424b-a6bd-9d412e7af13f/IMG_0801.JPG Works - Windspiration Bird of Pray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/f225d0cf-956d-4b01-9c17-fd7d90d80d4c/IMG_6181.JPG Works - Windspiration Iced Blue Stem in Winter Red https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/56cc932f-0b96-42be-a172-2ac497a6c285/IMG_2758.JPG Works - Windspiration Look Up and Hang On https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/a6cd2cb6-20af-4742-a227-f255318ea2ef/EKSC1865.JPG Works - Windspiration Better than Cat's Paws https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/4e503cf5-4849-4062-881b-f71e6b5bad9d/001E58CD-9368-4951-ADC1-85D970C49B85.jpg Works - Windspiration Point Wilson Wyeth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/520bd8f2-b738-4676-8429-e933f078f817/IMG_3255.JPG Works - Windspiration Thunderstorm Kisses 412 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64554de1e5554c208c26758d/1aeab92c-ad96-4017-8e52-4bab622f8c16/IMG_4540.JPG Works - Windspiration My favorite windy Cape, sandscape, and vista in Normandy. Inhale!