Finding Pax

ON THE ISLAND IN Denmark where the oldest oak tree in Europe grows, a young boatbuilder nicknamed “the perfectionist” crafted a boat with his hands. In 1936, the boat was finished and her journey began. Seventy years later, in Port Townsend, Washington—just minutes after a near catastrophe was averted in the marina outside her office window—around-the-world sailor Kaci Cronkhite opened an email. A Danish spidsgatter named Pax was for sale in Victoria, British Columbia. After years of experience around boats, Kaci knew better than to buy a wooden boat. But—smitten by the buxom curves of Pax and inspired by a life in the wind—she did. The journey that brought the two together became a quest that connected families in three countries with history that had been lost. What Kaci didn’t know—what no one knew—was where and how far Pax had journeyed, what she survived those seven decades and what those who loved her would always remember.