Sailing at the Edge of Disaster

In 1971, Elizabeth Garber's domineering father announced he was sending his "problem children"-seventeen-year-old bookish Elizabeth and her fourteen-year-old brother Woodie-to 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 Woman's Daring Year chronicles Garber's adventures, along with the fifty teen misfits and their teacher chaperones aboard the sailing school housed on a once-magnificent yacht formerly owned by General