Elizabeth Meyer

[1] Meyer attended a Quaker Friends Academy[1] and Bennington College in Vermont where she studied English.

For a time she worked at sail making, also volunteering at a zoo and running a restaurant before starting a building restoration company in 1977.

[3] For her efforts in building and yacht restoration she has received the president's award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

From 1975 to 1993 she owned the Concordia yawl, Matinicus and has authored books on the Ray Hunt designed class.

[3] She now sails Seminole, a 1916 Lawley-built 47 ft (14.3m) gaff yawl, bought in 1996 from California unseen for a dollar.