1941 Blue Water Medal to ROBERT NEILSON aboard Orion

1941 Blue Water Medal to ROBERT NEILSON aboard Orion

From Honolulu to San Pedro, Calif., June 5, 1941- July 15, with one companion, on a 30-foot auxiliary ketch, 10-foot beam and 4 1/2-foot draft, designed by John G. Hanna. Orion carried on through the Panama Canal to Tampa, Florida, a total distance of 7978 miles.

Award
Blue Water
Year
1941
Recipient Name
ROBERT NEILSON
Boat Name
Orion
Extra Information
1941

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Blue Water Medal

The prestigious Blue Water Medal was inaugurated by the Cruising Club of America in 1923 to:

reward meritorious seamanship and adventure upon the sea displayed by amateur sailors of all nationalities, that might otherwise go unrecognized.

Blue Water Medallists have included such luminaries of the sailing world as Rod Stephens, Eric and Susan Hiscock, Sir Francis Chichester, Eric Tabarly, Pete Goss, Bernard Moitessier, and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston..

The Medal itself was designed by Arthur Sturgis Hildebrand, a member of the Cruising Club of America, who was one of the crew of the yacht Leiv Eiriksson, lost in the Arctic with all hands in September of 1923