Winners

• Alex Whitworth (2010) "for a circumnavigation of the world via the Northwest Passage west to east."
• Annie Hill
  Annie Hill
  Annie Hill is an English sailor, author of books and articles about sailboat voyaging, living on a small amount of money and sailing junk rigs.-Biography:...
  
   and Trevor Robertson (2009)
• Peter Passano (2007)
• Minoru Saito
  Minoru Saito
  Minoru Saito is a Japanese solo yachtsman. He became the oldest person at age 71 to do a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. He has successfully made seven solo circumnavigations...
  
   (2006)
• Anthony Gooch (2003) "For his very well planned and executed single-handed nonstop circumnavigation from Victoria to Victoria, British Columbia
  Victoria, British Columbia
  Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...
  
  . His 177 day voyage began in late 2002 in his 42 foot cutter, Taonui and was completed in 2003. Prior to that, he and his wife, Coryn, had sailed about 115,000 miles over most of the world."
• Gerry Clark
  Gerry Clark
  Gerald Stanley Clark MBE was a New Zealand sailor, writer and ornithologist. He is notable for his ornithological research work on subantarctic islands and for his circumnavigation of Antarctica in his self-built yacht Totorore....
  
   (1987)
• Thomas Watson, Jr. (1986)
• Willi de Roos (1980)
• William Donald Aelian King (1975)
• Miles and Beryl Smeeton
  Miles and Beryl Smeeton
  Miles Smeeton and Beryl Smeeton were a pioneering couple of cruising sailors, recipients of numerous sailing awards, prolific authors, and founders of the Cochrane Ecological Institute, a Canadian non-profit responsible for successfully reintroducing the swift fox to North America.-Biography:Miles...
  
   (1973)
• Hal Roth
  Hal Roth
  Hal Roth was an American sailor and author. In 1971 he was awarded the Blue Water Medal of the Cruising Club of America. He died of lung cancer.Hal Roth was an avid sailor and prolific sailing writer...
  
   (1971)
• Richard S. Nye (1970)
• Frank Casper
  Frank Casper
  Frank Casper may refer to:*Frank Casper - footballer and former Burnley F.C. manager*Successful candidate in Liberal-Progressive candidates, 1953 Manitoba provincial election...
  
   (1970)
• Charles W. Atwater (1937) "A voyage from New York to Reykjavik, Iceland and return to Newport via Trepassey, Newfoundland, June 19-August 26, 1937. A 37 1/2-foot oa. Mower cutter."
• Charles Foster Tillinghast (1935) "For his seamanship in the effort to save three members of the crew of the Hamrah who were overboard in the North Atlantic, and in bringing the disabled and short-handed ketch safely into Sydney, N.S."
• Roderick Stephens, Jr. (1933) for a "three-month, 8,000-mile trans-Atlantic crossing from New York to Norway and return, including victory in the Fastnet Race
  Fastnet race
  The Fastnet Race is a famous offshore yachting race. It is considered one of the classic offshore races. It takes place every two years over a course of . The race starts off Cowes on the Isle of Wight in England, rounds the Fastnet Rock off the southwest coast of Ireland and then finishes at...
  
  . The 52-foot 3-inch Stephens-designed yawl returned home from England by the northern route in the remarkable time of 26 days."
• Robert Somerset (1932)
• William A. Robinson (1931)
• Frederick Lothrop Ames
  Frederick Lothrop Ames
  Frederick Lothrop Ames, Jr. was the great-grandson of Oliver Ames, who established the Ames Shovel Company. He was the second son of Frederick Lothrop Ames and Rebecca Caroline Ames. The Ames were a wealthy family in Massachusetts and were fairly prominent in 19th century New England society...
  
   (1927)
• Harry Clifford Pidgeon on Islander (1926) for having the "first circumnavigation-from Los Angeles to Los Angeles via Cape and Panama Canal, November 18, 1921 - October 31, 1925. Home-built a 34-foot yawl of Sea Bird type. Single-handed."
• Evelyn George Martin (1925)
• Axel Ingwersen
  Axel Ingwersen
  Axel Ingwersen was a winner of the 1924 Blue Water Medal for his sailing trip where he departed Shanghai on February 20, 1923 and arrived in Denmark past the Cape of Good Hope in May of 1924. He was sailing a double-ended ketch, 47 feet length overall, built by native laborers. He had a crew of...
  
   (1924) for his trip where he "departed Shanghai February 20, 1923 and arrived Denmark via Cape of Good Hope in May, 1924. Double-ended ketch, 47 feet oa., built by native laborers. Crew of three."
• Alain J. Gerbault on Firecrest (1923) for leaving Gibraltar on June 7, 1923, and arriving at Fort Totten, New York, 100 days later, nonstop in his Dixon Kemp
  Dixon Kemp
  Dixon Kemp , a British naval architect, was a founder of the Yacht Racing Association and at one time its secretary. He was a founder of Lloyd's Register of Yachts....
  
   designed British cutter, 34 feet length overall , single-handed.

External links

• Blue Water Medal from 1923 to present