Blue Water Medal to ROBERT SOMERSET aboard Jolie Brise Without Date

Blue Water Medal to ROBERT SOMERSET aboard Jolie Brise Without Date

Award for remarkable feat of seamanship and courage in rescuing all but one of 11-man crew of burning schooner Adriana in the 1932 Bermuda Race.

Without Date

Awarded "without date", signifying a particularly lengthy course of accomplishments at sea

Award
Blue Water
Recipient Name
ROBERT SOMERSET
Boat Name
Jolie Brise
Extra Information
1932

At its core, the CCA is a collection of passionate, seriously accomplished, ocean sailors making adventurous use of the seas. All members have extensive offshore boat handling, seamanship, and command experience honed over many years.

Prior Recipients

 

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