Boat Girl

A Memoir of Youth, Love, & Fiberglass

by Melanie Neale

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Pub Date Oct 01 2012 | Archive Date Dec 19 2013

Beating Windward Press | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Members' Titles

Biographies & Memoirs | Travel

Description

Throughout the 1980’s and 90’s, Melanie’s family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summers along the US East Coast and their winters in the Bahamas. Melanie and her sister were home-schooled, the family fished for dinner and made their own bread, but her parents were far from hippie dropouts. Despite their unconventional lifestyle, her parents were determined to raise proper, well-educated young ladies while surrounded by sea gypsies, mystics, nudists, boat bums, and drug smugglers. And the cruising life was not all fun in the sun.

Throughout the 1980’s and 90’s, Melanie’s family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summers along the US East Coast and their winters in the Bahamas. Melanie and her sister were...

Advance Praise

“Boat Girl captures the wonders and the paradoxes of growing up just offshore from American culture in a way that I haven’t ever seen in a lifetime of reading about such things.” - Tim Murphy, Editor-at-Large, Cruising World.

“An inspiring and beautifully written true story of a young woman schooled in the sea.” - Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties

“As a child raised aboard—and as a father who raised a child aboard—I am deeply interested in boat kids. Melanie is among our best. She is not only wonderfully wacky, she tells the truth in large and small ways. I admire her—as a writer and human being. This is a delightful book... that only a boat kid could write!” - Capt Fatty Goodlander, author of Chasing the Horizon & Red Sea Run