Early Epic Small-Boat Adventures

Here's an interesting list I came across in the The Mariner's Book of Days:

1789 -- Captain William Bligh and 18 loyalists from the mutiny on HMS Bounty survived a seven-week, 3,600-mile voyage in an open ship’s boat in the Pacific Ocean.

1870 -- J. C. Buckley and Nicholas Primoraz made the first east-to-west crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a small sailboat, the City of Ragua, from Cork, Ireland, to Boston, Massachusetts.

1875 -- Nathaniel Bishop rowed the 12-foot sneakbox, Centennial Republic, down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the Gulf of Mexico.

1876 -- The Banks fisherman Alfred Johnson sailed the 30-foot dory Centennial across the Atlantic Ocean, the first single-handed west-to-east passage.

1877 -- Thomas Crapo and his wife, Joanna, sailed a dory across the Atlantic Ocean from New Bedford, Massachusetts, to Penzance, England.

1880-81 -- Frederick Norman and George P. Thomas made the first double crossing under sail of the Atlantic Ocean, from Gloucester, Massachusetts, to Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, and back again.

1891 -- In a west-to-east race under sail across the Atlantic Ocean against William Andrews, Josiah Lawlor managed to hold on and win in the 15-foot Sea Serpent, despite capsizing several times during stormy weather.

1892 -- William Albert Andrews set a record for the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean in the 14-1/2-foot Sapolio; the record would stand for 73 years.

1896 -- George Harbo and Frank Sameulson became the first to row across the Atlantic Ocean, in the 18-foot Fox, New York City to the Scilly Isles, England.