For a cruise of 33,000 miles including both Arctic ice and Antarctic ice in a forty foot ketch with essentially zero material casualties.
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
For a decade of meritorious and seamanlike adventures including a circumnavigation of Ireland, Iceland, a cruise to 80 degrees North Latitude and visits to Spitzbergen, Jan Mayen Island and Greenland.
For an extraordinary, career of voyages, expeditions, research and races in small vessels.”
For a successful counter clockwise circumnavigation of North and South America starting from Belgium in 1977.
For a successful westbound circumnavigation from Sept. 1975 to Sept. 1979.
For a lifetime of cruising, racing, twenty or more Atlantic Crossings, founder of the Ocean Cruising Club and promoter of long distance cruising.
Without Date
Awarded "without date", signifying a particularly lengthy course of accomplishments at sea
For the extraordinary feat of salvaging his 41-foot ketch after being driven ashore by an unpredicted typhoon in the South China Sea.
For a well planned and executed round trip trans-Atlantic voyage to Spitzbergen including visits to many remote Arctic areas.
Started out in the Single Handed Around-the-World Race, but a roll over in a gale and a collision with a whale, eliminated competing in the race and made an interesting circumnavigation.