Description

In 1971 Elizabeth Garbers domineering father announced he was sending his problem childrenseventeenyearold bookish Elizabeth and her fourteenyearold brother Woodieto a school on a sailing ship in order to shape up and learn to work Sailing at the Edge of Disaster A Memoir of a Young Womans Daring Year chronicles Garbers adventures along with the fifty teen misfits and their teacher chaperones aboard the sailing school housed on a oncemagnificent yacht formerly owned by General Post heiress socialite and philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post Sailing at the Edge of Disaster follows the journey of Oceanics School students and faculty as they motor the limping ship out of Miami to begin the grand itinerary their charismatic twentyfiveyearold school director envisioned Along the way the ship survives a gale at sea a hole in the hull at deep water an act of piracy a near miss with a nuclear sub and are held hostage by armed gunboats in Panama The print version of the book was published by Toad Hall Editions Northport ME