Elizabeth Meyer
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Elizabeth E Meyer, was born in Baltimore in 1953[1], She was instrumental in the restoration of the J Class Yachts beginning with Endeavour in the mid 1980s[2],she is married to Michael McCaffrey[1].
Life
Her parents were medical doctors, a psychiatrist and an epidemiologist[1]. Her grandfather was Eugene Meyer. investment banker and first president of the World Bank[1]. He also owned the Washington Post publishing company. Her grandmother was Agnes Ernst Meyer, social activist and Journalist, Elizabeth’s aunt was Katherine Graham owner of the Washington Post during Watergate[1]. Meyer attended a Quaker Friends Academy[1], an exclusive Prep School and Bennington College in Vermont where she studied English. For a time she worked at sail making, also volunteering at a Zoo and running a restaurant before starting a building restoration company in 1977[2]. She published Yaahting a Parody of the magazine Yachting, also writing for Nautical Quarterly[1]. Meyer has been politically active opposing the Vietnam War and being involved in Local politics in Newport Rhode Island[1].
Yacht Restoration
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In 1984 she purchased the J class Yacht Endeavour and began the restoration[2]. She was also instrumental in the restoration of Shamrock V another J, and more than 80 classic yachts[2]. She is President of J-Class Management[2]. She was one of the founders of the International Yacht Restoration School which has taught 400 students in yacht building and restoration[2]. For her efforts in building and yacht restoration she has received the President’s award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation[2].
