Category: AWARDS
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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.…
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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…
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A Short Passage to Uruguay
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Awarded the Founder’s Cup by RCC Our 180 days in Brazil were up so we cleared out of Angra dos Reis for Uruguay, 1000 miles to the south-west. Before leaving Brazil we sailed over to Enseada de Sito Forte, on Ilha Grande, where a beach bar kindly runs a hose of spring water out to…
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The Jester Challenge
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By Pete Hill – 2006 Pete received the Inaugural Jester Medal, which is awarded by the Ocean Cruising Club, at theirdiscretion, for an outstanding contribution to the art of singlehanded sailing. Whilst browsing through a Classic Boat magazine in a supermarket in Bermuda, I came across an article about the Jester Challenge to be held…
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The Jester Challenge
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Written by Ewen Southby-Tailyour Ten entries in the inaugural Jester Challenge for single-handed yachts under 30 feet departed Plymouth at 1200 BST on 3 June 2006 and headed towards Newport, RI. The first to arrive, a Frenchman, did so after 31 days 15 hours 35 minutes and the second (and last), Pete Hill, crossed the…
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Klingons on the Starboard Bow
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The Founder’s Cup by RCC was awarded for this cruise. After the previous year’s disaster at Staten Island, China Moon retreated to Brazil where I built stronger rudders and a cuddy at the forward end of the cockpit to give much needed shelter. In November I sailed singlehanded back down to Argentina and spent Christmas…
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Make Do and Mend
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This is the cruise for which the Juno’s Cup was awarded by RCC. We beat into Bahia Aguirre against 40 to 50 knot winds and when we left it was almost calm. We had to motor for nearly an hour before the breeze filled in from the southwest. These conditions are about par for the…
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A Penguin on the Foredeck
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This is the cruise for which the RCC Challenge Cup and the Goldsmith Exploration Award were presented. It was with some trepidation that we sailed from Stanley in the Falkland Islands, outward bound for the Antarctic. Our original plan had been to visit South Georgia and then sail on to Cape Town. In the winter,…
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South to Stanley
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The cruise for which the RCC’s Romola Cup was awarded. Although we had intended to leave England directly after the Beaulieu Meet, it was not until 26 September that we managed to sail from Falmouth. A minor overhaul of Badger’s motor had turned into a major re-engine job, when the cost of repairs turned out…
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