The Man Who Died in His Boat is the ninth studio album by American musician Liz Harris under the stage name Grouper.

The album consists of outtakes from the previous several years, when she was in the process of recording Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill.

I remember looking only briefly, wilted by the feeling that I was violating some remnant of this man's presence by witnessing the evidence of its failure.

[4]Harris may be referring to an August 1998 incident in which the intact sailboat of Dr. William Groppe (1947–1998), a psychiatrist and sailor from Visalia, California, was found abandoned off the shore of Agate Beach, along with two weeks worth of provisions and his equipment still in working order.

[5][6] Speaking of the main protagonist implied in the title of the album, Drowned in Sound columnist Tim Peyton writes: "The mysterious pathos of this incident suits Grouper well.