When a Cowgirl Goes to Sea

When a Cowgirl Goes to Sea tells the story of Kaci Cronkhite''s journey from saddling horses as a young girl in Oklahoma, to a six-year circumnavigation.How does a ranch girl from Oklahoma wind up in her mid-30s on the deck of a pitching sailboat in the Tasman Sea, singlehanding in the Indian Ocean, and completing a circumnavigation by the time she''s 40? Kaci Cronkhite grew up on a land-locked Oklahoma ranch-she didn''t even see the ocean until she was 21. After her father died when she was a young woman, Kaci was bereft and adrift as she coped with their tumultuous history and her sudden loss. But the first time she ventured out on a sailboat, she knew right away that she had found what was missing from her life. Her passion for sailing and a life on the seas took her on fabulous adventures to far-flung places as she traveled the world. When a Cowgirl Goes to Sea is her story of growi

Kaci Cronkhite is a writer whose work radiates a passion for adventures combining wind, travel, history, and legacy. Her stories have appeared in the anthology Steady as She Goes, and in magazines and newspapers in America, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the Caribbean. She has written dozens of blogs and sailing articles: www.kacicronkhite.com. She has sailed around the world from 1995–2001, and then ran the Wooden Boat Show in Port Townsend, Washington for a decade. She is the author of Finding Pax, also published by Adlard Coles.