Tinkerbelle

Tinkerbelle is a 13.5-foot (4.1 m) sailboat in which 47-year-old newspaperman Robert Manry, a copy editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, single-handedly crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1965.

At the time, it was the shortest but not the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic nonstop (till today[when?]

[2] 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).