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.