From Latitude 38
Awards Season January 22, 2010 – In Perpetuity Awards season isn't just for movies, and while the ISAF and the Rolex US Sailing awards usually garner the lion's share of the press, they aren't the only ones out there. Here are a few with an established pedigree and some established recipients. Sir Robin Knox-Johnston checks the trim aboard Saga Insurance, the IMOCA 60 that brought him out of retirement at age 67 for the 2006-07 Velux 5 Oceans Race. © 2010 Clipper Ventures On the the 40th anniversary of winning the Golden Globe, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston became only the seventh person in the 85-year history of the _Cruising Club of America_ (http://www.cruisingclub.org/) 's Blue Water Medal to win the award "for a lifetime devoted to the advancement of sailing, sail training and youth development." Lin and Larry Pardey's combined 400,000 sea miles earned them the Cruising Club of America's Far Horizons award. Photo Latitude / LaDonna © 2010 Latitude 38 Publishing Co., Inc. The club's Far Horizons Award fittingly went to Lin and Larry Pardey, whose first circumnavigation consumed some 47,000 miles. They've racked up a combined 400,000 sea miles aboard their now iconic, engineless Lyle Hess-designed Seraffyn and Taliesin. The Pardeys hold the record for the smallest boat to have circumnavigated contrary to the prevailing winds around all the great southern capes and are the only couple to have circumnavigated both east-about and west-about on boats they built themselves, using traditional means of navigation and having no engine or sponsorship.