Growing Up on a Sailboat Not What It's Cracked Up To Be, Author Says

Would Have Preferred School, Friends Over Her 'Privileged Life'

Suzanne Heywood grew up on a schooner as her parents sailed in the wake of Captain Cook.

Contributor Suzanne Heywood has written a book about growing up on Wavewalker. Her essay summarizing the experience, which first appeared in HuffPost, is reprinted here with Heywood’s permission.

By SUZANNE HEYWOOD

It has taken me decades to be ready to tell this story…