Robert Manry

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Robert Manry (born June 2, 1918 - died February 21, 1971) was a 47-year-old copy editor on the Cleveland Plain Dealer who in 1965 sailed from Falmouth, Massachusetts to Falmouth, Cornwall, England in a tiny 13.5 foot (4 m) sailboat called Tinkerbelle. Beginning on June 1, 1965 and ending on August 17, the voyage lasted 78 days.

At the time, the Tinkerbelle was the smallest boat to make a non-stop trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Manry later wrote about the voyage and its preparation in his book Tinkerbelle, in which the sailor expressed shock and surprise at the huge crowds and armada of small boats that greeted his arrival in Cornwall.

Robert Manry died February 21, 1971 from a heart attack in Union City, Pennsylvania.

[edit] Bibliography

• Tinkerbelle (1967; Harper & Row, New York City, N.Y.)
• Tinkerbelle (1967; Collins, London)