Tinkerbelle
Sailboat
title: "Tinkerbelle" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1965-ships", "individual-sailing-vessels", "single-handed-sailing"] description: "Sailboat" topic_path: "general/1965-ships" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkerbelle" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Sailboat ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Tinkerbelle_by_Robert_Manry.jpg" caption="accessdate=2008-09-14 }} Mayor Samuel A. Hooper of Falmouth officially welcomed him at the town's Custom House Quay. Robert Manry's wife Virginia and his children, Robin and Douglas, were also there, having been flown in from [[Willowick, Ohio]]."] ::
During the voyage Manry was knocked overboard by big waves, suffered from hallucinations, repaired a broken rudder in mid-ocean, and was woken up one morning by a surfacing submarine, USS Tench (SS-417). Manry later wrote about the voyage and its preparation in his book Tinkerbelle.
Tinkerbelle, a little wooden Old Town "Whitecap" sailboat, was originally built by the Old Town Canoe Co. of Old Town, Maine. Manry extensively modified her himself for the voyage by adding a cabin and more seaworthy cockpit. Tinkerbelle's official registration number painted on her bow was OH 7013 AR. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/At_the_Museum.jpg" caption="''Tinkerbelle'' in the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum. April 2018" alt="Tinkerbelle in the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum. April 2018"] ::
Tinkerbelle is on display indoors at the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Nearby the real Tinkerbelle is provided a replica into which children can crawl.
References
Bibliography
- Tinkerbelle (Harper and Row, New York 1966; Collins, London 1967)
References
- Heaton, Michael. (2005-08-14). "Tinkerbelle: The Cost of a Dream". [[The Plain Dealer]].
- (1965-08-27). "78 Days to Fame". [[Time (magazine).
- "Tinkerbelle". [[Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum]].
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