The Cruising Club of America has selected Captain Sean McCarter (left) to receive its 2014 Rod Stephens Trophy for Outstanding Seamanship and Skip Novak (right) has been selected to receive the Club’s Blue Water Medal for 2014 in recognition of his many years of cruising and exploring the Antarctic.
McCarter gets the nod for his action as the professional captain of Derry-Londonderry-Doire during the Clipper Round the World Race that resulted in successfully retrieving a crew overboard. The trophy is given “for an act of seamanship that significantly contributes to the safety of a yacht or one or more individuals at sea.” Cruising Club of America’s Commodore, Frederic T. Lhamon, will present the awards at the club’s annual awards dinner at the New York Yacht Club in New York on March 6, 2015.
Find out more about the CCA, the awards and their recipients at www.cruisingclub.org
