Robert Manry News Today

A resolution to rename Manry Pool the Martin E. Guzauskas Pool has gone on first reading at a recent Willowick City Council meeting. Located at 30100 Arnold Drive, the Manry Park pool will go on second reading at the April 2 council meeting and will be voted on after the third reading April 16, according […]

Willowick Recreation Director Julie Kless recently asked City Council to consider renaming Manry Pool to the Martin Guzauskas Pool. Located at 30100 Arnold Road, Manry Pool is named after the late Robert Manry, a Willowick resident who sailed his 13-foot sloop, Tinkerbelle, across the Atlantic Ocean in the summer of 1965. The event received world […]

In 1965, Robert Manry was a typical middle-aged suburbanite in Cleveland, Ohio. However, his colleagues at the Plain Dealer newspaper were shocked to learn he had just set sail on a solo voyage across the Atlantic in his 13½-foot sloop, Tinkerbelle. By the time his 78-day odyssey ended in England, Manry was the target of a wild journalistic arms race, the guest of honor to a welcoming committee of 20,000 Britons, and had become a hero to his countrymen - and to dreamers everywhere.

In 1975, as a senior at Harvard, the question for Chicago-area sailor Mike Jacker became what to do next. The answer, as related in his new book Taken by the