1953 Blue Water Medal to L. G. VAN DE WIELE aboard Omoo

1953 Blue Water Medal to L. G. VAN DE WIELE aboard Omoo

A circumnavigation by owner and wife one other, plus dog, from Nice, France, to Zeebrugge, Belgium, July 7, 1951-August 2, 1953, via Canal and Cape of Good Hope. Steel 45-foot oa. gaff-rigged ketch. Said to be first steel yacht and first dog to circumnavigate.

Award
Blue Water
Year
1953
Recipient Name
L. G. VAN DE WIELE
Boat Name
Omoo
Extra Information
1953

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