We have just received word that Marvin Creamer, CCA Blue Water Medal recipient of 1985, has passed on at the ripe age of 104. His award notes: "For a series of off shore voyages culminating in a west to east circumnavigation via Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn without navigational instruments -compass - chronometer, sextant or electronics." (emphasis added)
The New York Times recapped his life and remarkable adventure in an article today.
Image by Ralph Harvey, via University Archives and Special Collections, Rowan University Libraries