Blue Water Medal to ROGER S. STROUT aboard Igdrasil Without Date

Blue Water Medal to ROGER S. STROUT aboard Igdrasil Without Date

Circumnavigation in a Spray-type cutter (eventually rerigged as yawl) designed and built by owner. He and his wife circumnavigated via Panama and Cape of Good Hope between June, 1934 and May, 1937.

Without Date

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

Award
Blue Water
Recipient Name
ROGER S. STROUT
Boat Name
Igdrasil
Extra Information
1937

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