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Meyer attended a Quaker Friends Academy and Bennington College in Vermont where she studied English.
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She was instrumental in the restoration of the J Class Yachts beginning with Endeavour in the mid 1980s. Her parents were medical doctors, a psychiatrist and an epidemiologist. Her grandfather was Eugene Meyer, investment banker and first president of the World Bank.
He also owned the Washington Post publishing company.
Her grandmother was Agnes Ernst Meyer, social activist and journalist. Foreign a time she worked at sail making, also volunteering at a zoo and running a restaurant before starting a building restoration company in 1977.
She published Yaahting, a parody of the magazine Yachting. She also wrote for Nautical Quarterly.
Meyer has been politically active, opposing the Vietnam War and being involved in local politics in Newport, Rhode Island.
In 1984 she purchased the J class yacht Endeavour and began the restoration. She was also instrumental in the restoration of Shamrock V another J, and more than 80 classic yachts. She is president of J-Class Management.
She founded the International School in 1993 which has taught 400 students in yacht building and restoration.
In 2011 she received the Don Turner Award from the United States Ship Constitution Museum for her work in maritime preservation. From 1975 to 1993 she owned the Concordia yawl, Matinicus and has authored books on the Ray Hunt designed class.
