2008 Blue Water Medal

The 2008 Blue Water Medal will be awarded on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 in New York at the Cruising Club of Ameria's Award's Dinner. Notice of the award winner will be posted at that time.

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 and Bernard Moitessier.

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 1924.

For information on previous Blue Water Medal Winners, see the links at left.