CCA Member Chuck Hawley received US Sailing's most prestigious award, the Nathaniel G. Herreshoff Trophy, on December 1. US Sailing President Rich Jepsen attended a meeting of CCA's San Francisco Station to make the award presentation.

Nominating Committee Report 
 
The Nominating Committee submits the following nominations to be acted upon at the Annual Meeting to be held on March 5, 2022.
 
OFFICERS:
 
Commodore:                          Christopher L. Otorowski
Vice Commodore:                  John R. Gowell
Secretary:                               Molly P. Barnes

After a two-year hiatus, the Cruising Club of America (CCA) has recognized that there is significant pent-up demand for offshore safety training.

Members!

We'll be holding our Fall Meeting online instead of in person again. The upside of this is that you can attend from anywhere.

Please log in and visit our membership meeting page here.

Does your boating organization have an interest in safety on the water? It turns out that safety seminars can be effective online over an extended period or in person on a Saturday morning down at the clubhouse. 

Friday, November 12 – Sunday, November 14, 2021

On June 15, Guirec Soudee, the CCA’s 2019 Young Voyager awardee, departed from Chatham to row across the Atlantic. Woody Metzger, of First Light Boatworks, towed Guirec’s 27 foot purpose-built rowing craft from Mill Pond out  to the open ocean.

Please join us in congratulating CCA member Peter Becker on his impressive performance in the single-handed leg of this year's Bermuda 1-2.  Peter finished 1st in Class 2 aboard his J/105 "Young American," and was 7th over the line in a fleet of twenty-three.  Well done, Peter!

Since we wrote about the Collegiate Offshore Sailing Circuit (see “A College On-Ramp to Offshore Sailing

A CCA/NYS Event

Peter Gibbons-Neff has a solo bluewater mission this year in a sailboat that’s unlike the boats his fellow members of the Cruising Club of America sail offshore. Terminal Leave is an RG 650, a Classe Mini 6.50 design, and it stretches all of 21 feet, 4 inches.