154:(2000) "For a remarkable voyage in his 42-foot sloop to Antarctica from Patchogue, Long Island, via Panama Canal, Galapagos, Chile, Port Lockroy on the Antarctic Peninsula, SouthGeorgia Island, Cape Town, and home by way of St. Martin and Bermuda. 21,784 miles,10 months with crew of 1 or 2 young men. Wrote copious descriptions of his cruise, and produced special guide to the Patagonian passages."
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144:(2001) "For his circumnavigation of Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia. He departed St. Petersburg, Nov. 1996, spent a winter laid up on the NE coast of Siberia, made it through the Bering Strait, where ice forced him to lay up again in Tiksy (Northern Siberia). In Aug. 1999, he made it through the
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Charles F. Tillinghast Jr. of Providence brought the crippled ketch Hamrah safely into port with two young companions over 900 miles of storm-torn ocean last June after three of her company had drowned, he had performed the finest feat of seamanship accomplished by an amateur yachtsman during
217:(1972) "Since 1959 this family has cruised over 170,000 miles. Notable voyages include the first Antarctic circumnavigation, the first windward (east to west) circumnavigation south of all continents, and a circumnavigation via the canals."
291:(1927) Ames sailed his 50-foot "Primrose IV" Alden schooner to England for the 1926 Fastnet. The medal was awarded for the return passage, from Portsmouth, north about, Iceland, Labrador, Cape Breton Island, in 58 days to Newport, R.I.
285:(1931) In his 32-foot 9-inch "Svapp" Alden ketch departed New London June 23, 1928, in the Bermuda Race of that year, and circumnavigated via Panama and Suez Canals with crew of two, arriving in N.Y. November 24, 1931
263:(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."
742:"Tillinghast Gets Yachting Award; Brought Disabled Ketch Into Port; Blue Water Medal of Cruising Club Presented to Acting Skipper of Hamrah, Who With Two Aides Survived Pounding Seas After Three Were Lost"
303:(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."
315:(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."
279:(1932) Award was given for his remarkable feat of seamanship and courage, aboard his vessel "Jolie Brise", rescuing all but one of 11-man crew of burning schooner Adriana in the 1932 Bermuda Race
138:. 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."
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