With ten trans-Atlantic crossings, plus a circumnavigation, perhaps the most outstanding feat was a 1970 single-handed trans-Atlantic passage in Angantyr.
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 many years of voyaging in the 45-foot ketch, covering, thousands of miles in all latitudes, climaxed by an east-to west rounding of Cape Horn, where they had twice previously been dismasted, in 1968.
Since 1959 this family has cruised over 170,000 miles. Notable voyages include the first Antarctic circumnavigation, the first windward (east to west) circumnavigation south of all continents, and a circumnavigation via the canals.
A cruise of 18,538 miles around the Pacific Basin, with his wife as crew, aboard a 35-foot sloop.
For meritorious cruising and ocean racing.
Extended singlehanded cruising including one circumnavigation and numerous trans-Atlantic passages.
Singlehanded circumnavigation with stops only at Melbourne, Australia and Bluff, New Zealand. He departed Portsmouth, England on July 16, 1967 and returned to that port on July 4, 1968.
Single-handed passage around the world, via the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn. Stopping only at Sydney, Australia, the distance was 29,630 miles for the whole voyage.
From Moorea, west to east, around Cape Horn to Alicante, Spain. His wife, Francoise, was sole crew.