Blue Water Medal
 2008 Blue Water Medal to William (Scott) Piper III, MD
The 2008 Blue Water Medal was awarded at the Cruising Club of America's Annual Awards Dinner, Tuesday, January 13, to William (Scott) Piper III, MD. read more
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.
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