Spiess Landing

At these shores, the legend of Yankee Girl and Gerry Spiess began. In two voyages, despite raging storms, capsizes, physical pain, and sleeplessness, the White Bear skipper and his beloved ten-foot-long plywood sailboat crossed both the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and captured the imagination of the world. Gerry Spiess, a former Mariner school teacher, earned world sailing records and became Minnesota's famed Lone Sailor and White Bear's native son, honored here as a man who dared to dream and make his dreams come true.

White Bear Lake, Minnesota · United States