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  • Blue Water Medal 2025 – Pete Hill

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    Cruising Club of America https://cruisingclub.org/awards/blue-water-medal-pete-hill Pete Hill, of the United Kingdom, is the recipient of the 2025 Blue Water Medal of the Cruising Club of America (CCA). This prestigious award, established to honor exceptional seamanship and adventure by amateur sailors, recognizes Hill for his more than 50 years of long-distance voyaging in the world’s oceans.…

  • Awards List

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    Over the years, Pete has received numerous sailing awards in recognition of his extraordinary seamanship and voyages. Awarding Club or Institutions 2025 – CCA 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…

  • Cruising Guides – RCC Pilotage Foundation

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    Pete is the author of the following Cruising Guides published by the RCC Pilotage Foundation:  South Shetland Islandhttps://rccpf.org.uk/pilots/61/South-Shetland-Islands-and-Antarctic-Peninsula South Orkney Islandshttps://rccpf.org.uk/pilots/58/Cruising-Guide-to-South-Orkney South Georgiahttps://rccpf.org.uk/pilots/55/South-Georgia-1995 South Atlantic Islandshttps://rccpf.org.uk/pilots/43/South-Atlantic-Islands South West Africahttps://rccpf.org.uk/pilots/40/South-West-Africa Argentinahttps://rccpf.org.uk/pilots/49/Argentina Uruguayhttps://rccpf.org.uk/pilots/234/Uruguay-(PDF) Brazil NE Coast – Volume 1https://rccpf.org.uk/pilots/163/Cruising-Guide-to-the-Coast-of-Brazil-Part-1- Brazil North Coast – Volume 2https://rccpf.org.uk/pilots/164/Cruising-Guide-to-the-Coast-of-Brazil-Part-2 Brazil South Coast – Volume 3https://rccpf.org.uk/pilots/165/Cruising-Guide-to-the-Coast-of-Brazil-Part-3

  • Terrors and Magic of the Tasman Sea

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    Appetizer As always we were checking the weather for days before setting off. Eventually the forecasted variable (light) winds looked OK and I was pleased when Neptune commented: “It is not going to be a fast passage”. He estimated 1200 miles in 12 days, April 1st for our arrival!  With light to moderate winds, flattish…

  • Kissing the Land in Nelson, NZ

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    Dear Friends, I usually write every 6 months, but this cannot wait. Before setting off from Hobart I sent you this:  We are both very much looking forward to our Tasman Sea crossing to Nelson, New Zealand.  The sea with its infinite cleansing powers should wash away all that earth life brings.  The simple, pure,…

  • Tasmanian Enterprise

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    I have been meaning to thank, individually, each one of you who wrote back to me. Thank you so much for all the encouragement.  Alas, tiredness got the better of me and I am only now managing to, briefly, send something. We’ve been in Tasmania for just over five months. They were the toughest ones…

  • Incorrigibly Foolish (ad)Venturers

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    Dear Friends  First and foremost.  I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and that the New Year brings you joy! Happy 2025! What fools would buy a boat without receiving at least one picture of it? Then abandon the most beautiful boat they spent so much time working on, and pack up everything to…

  • Amazing Scotland – Summer 2024

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    Despite having the most wonderful time with so many friends in the UK and Croatia, there was something about land that is corrupt.  “Boats and people rot in the harbours.”  Being away from it all, escaping into an unknown blue universe  was an elixir fix I needed the most. I said to Neptune: “Get me…

  • ¥ € $ , ¥ € $, ¥ € $ – Florida

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    It is nearly 6 months since my last update with many miles under Kokachin’s wake. Our 3 months sejour in Florida could not have been more different from Newfoundland wilderness, a kingdom of nature, where isolation and peace reigned. The only spot to anchor in Stuart was under the private jets flight path where a…

  • New York! New York!

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    Our last anchorage in Canada was a small desolate island (Cape Negro Island) at the very Southern tip of Nova Scotia, the big lighthouse offshore was shining its light on us. Not a soul in sight, just some scattered remnants of a dilapidated cottage buried under thorny bushes, traces of past life. With a deep…

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