Tinkerbelle (online book)

[Rick Klages]

This used to be here!  Great book on a small sailboat adventure.


http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ebooks/tinkerbelle/

[Craig Weis]

I always found it interesting that Tinkerbelle [Manry's kids picked the name and the spelling] was a lapstrake sided boat built by Old Town Canoe Company at 13 foot 6 inches, an open sail boat, suitable for pulling.
Manry took the time to learn how to sail Tinkerbelle in Cleveland pond while planning his trip. How's that for 'stones'?
Manry added the cabin and the decked over cockpit to limit the weight of water if pooped and to provide extra storage area below. Great cut-a-way drawing on back cover of paperback and hard back. Manry was a Newspaper reporter. After his 78 day voyage to England and being shipped back home with his boat, Manry's first wife Robin, wife was killed in an auto accident shortly after wards.
Tinkerbelle sits in a Cleveland, Ohio Museum.
skip.