Ashley Perrin and Merfyn Owen, of San Rafael, California
The RCC Trophy is a perpetual trophy, generously given by the Royal Cruising Club to the Cruising Club of America on the occasion of its 75th Anniversary in 1997. The Governing Board voted in late 1997 to award the RCC Trophy annually according to the following terms:
The Royal Cruising Club Trophy is awarded to a CCA member and skipper who has undertaken the most interesting cruise of singular merit and moderate duration.
In voting the language above, the Committee and the Board expressed the hope that a substantial number of members would be realistic candidates for the award and, as such, would make every effort to submit reports of their cruises to CCA publications for the enjoyment of the entire club.
2022 Royal Cruising Club Trophy—Ellen Massey Leonard and Seth Leonard
Skip Novak is the recipient of the Cruising Club of America's 2021 Royal Cruising Club Trophy.
Simon and Sally Currin are the recipients of the Cruising Club of America's 2020 Royal Cruising Club Trophy, awarded to a member of the Club for “the most interesting cruise of singular merit and moderate duration.”
Royal Cruising Club Trophy—Stephen W. James, of Palm City, Fla., for his challenging cruise from Buenos Aires to the Le Maire Strait and Tierra del Fuego.
CCA’s Royal Cruising Club Trophy, awarded to a CCA member and skipper who has undertaken the most interesting cruise of singular merit and moderate duration
Awarded to Frederic T. and Joyce C. Lhamon. While Tad was Commodore of the Cruising Club of America, he and Joyce sailed their Alden 44 Lyric to all eleven stations of the Club, on the Pacific, Atlantic and Great Lakes. It was an unprecedented route, and the cruise did much to foster the spirit of cruising and camaraderie that exemplify the CCA.
The CCA has selected Joe Harris (Hamilton, Mass.) to receive the Club’s 2016 Royal Cruising Club Trophy for his circumnavigation in his Open Class 40 Gryphon Solo 2. The award will be presented at the CCA’s annual Awards Dinner at the New York Yacht Club in New York on March 3, 2017. The perpetual trophy, generously given to CCA by the Royal Cruising Club on the occasion of the CCA’s 75th Anniversary in 1997, is given to a "CCA member and skipper who has undertaken the most interesting cruise of singular merit and moderate duration."
For his circumnavigation of Newfoundland in the summer of 2009, a cruise of 3000 miles. He documented this cruise with an article that appears in the 2011 issue of VOYAGES. "Around the Rock in 70 days, A Newfoundland Circumnavigation."
For his well written descriptions in his article entitled "Joyant in Svalbard: Savoring the Risk/Reward Ratio" of the geography, scenery and wildlife as well as the risks of high latitude cruising.