A 4,000-mile cruise in the West Indies with crew of two from and to Barnegat Bay, N.J. The 23-foot oa. cutter, designed by the owner, was subsequently lost with all hands under different ownership. No power.
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
An eastbound trans-Atlantic passage, Branford, Conn., to Falmouth, July 5 to July 31, 1928. Roue-designed 56-foot oa. ketch.
This 50-foot oa. Alden schooner had been sailed to England for the 1926 Fastnet. Medal was awarded for her return passage, from Portsmouth, north about, Iceland, Labrador, Cape Breton Island, 58 days to Newport, R.I.
Double trans-Atlantic crossing, including Bermuda Race. LeHavre pilot cutter 56 feet oa. April 3, 1926 from Falmouth, July 27 to Plymouth.
First circumnavigation-from Los Angeles to Los Angeles via Cape and Panama Canal, November 18, 1921- October 31, 1925. Home-built a 34-foot yawl of Sea Bird type. Single-handed.
Departed Shanghai February 20, 1923 and arrived Denmark via Cape of Good Hope in May, 1924. Double-ended ketch, 47 feet oa., built by native laborers. Crew of three.
Left Gibraltar June 7, 1923, and arrived Fort Totten, L.I., exactly 100 days later. Non-stop. Dixon Kemp-designed British cutter, 34 feet oa. Single-handed.
The Cruising Club of America (CCA) has selected Jon Sanders of Perth, Australia to receive its Blue Water Medal “Without Date,” a designation that has been used only five times over the life of the Blue Water Medal, established in 1923. It recognizes “a meritorious example of seamanship” that ranges over a lifetime of achievement.
Skip Novak has been selected by the Cruising Club of America to receive the Club’s Blue Water Medal for 2014 in recognition of his many years of cruising and exploring the Antarctic. Cruising Club of America’s Commodore, Frederic T. Lhamon, will present the award at the club’s annual awards dinner at the New York Yacht Club in New York on March 6, 2015. The award was established in 1923 by the Club’s Governing Board to recognize examples of meritorious seamanship and adventure upon the sea by sailors of all nationalities.