Amanda Lewis
| Amanda Lewis | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Sex | F |
| Birth name | Amanda Lewis |
| Father | Jake Lewis |
| Mother | Rachel Kunkle |
For other persons named Amanda, see Amanda.
Amanda Lewis is the daughter of Jake and Rachel Lewis. She has a brother named Ron who is in the Coast Guard.RD1
She started helping with the family fishing boats early and was at the helm before she was a teenager. At eleven she had been out sailing when she saw a child fall overboard from a power cruiser, rescued him and returned to the Channel Stop to report the incident to her family.RD1
She spent about four weeks one summer, while she was in high school, cruising the European canals with her half-brother, Matt Caldwell, and Mary Sue O’Leary on board the Mary Sue.BTG22
She'd bought a 25 MacGregor trailer boat named Knick-Knack for a hundred dollars and had done it up but realised it wasn't really the boat she wanted and ended up selling it to Adam Caldwell.
When Adam was looking to move up to a real cruising sailboat she mentioned the Moonshadow which she'd had a quick look at. It would have suited her fine but was out of her price range. When Adam bought the boat she sailed it with him from Traverse City to Winchester Harbor .
Her brother, Ron, bought a Pearson Triton 28 for her in a bank foreclosure sale for less than the scrap value at Jacksonville, Florida. Her adventures fixing it up are the subject of the book Rag Doll.
Ron found Sims Boat Yard for her to rebuild the Triton 28, named Rag Doll. There they met Cordy Sims who became a good friend to Amanda and later married Ron.RD31 A couple of Ron's Coast Guard buddies helped Amanda with the work on Rag Doll. She particularly took note of the quiet Zack Reeves but felt there was something he was hiding. During the summer Zack called in to see Amanda at Winchester Harbor and told her his history, after which they started getting closer.RD23 Amanda still felt reserve about getting too close to Zack because she didn't want to give up her life at Winchester Harbor in the summer and her freedom to sail in the winter.
In Rag Doll's first winter Amanda and Zack sailed together for six weeks in Florida and the Bahamas. At the end of that time they both wanted to be together but neither was ready to sacrifice their lifestyle.RD33 When Zack arranged to transfer to the Coast Guard Reserve at Cheboygan and working for the Lewis family business Amanda invited him to live with her in the motel while they decided whether to make it permanent.
