Cruising World Writers Win Top Prizes
Cruising World magazine took top honors at the 2012 Boating Writers International Awards ceremony at the mid-winter Miami boat show, sweeping the entire travel and destinations category and taking the lion’s share in others.
The magazine’s staff members and contributing writers took a total of 17 awards with five first-place awards, four second-place awards, and four third-place awards, in addition to four honorable mentions. It’s become an annual rite of recognition for the high quality of the CW editorial brand, which has consistently edged out competing marine publications over the last several years.
Along with award-winning sister publication Sailing World, CW and winners Yachting and Boating are part of the Bonnier Marine Group, a division of Bonnier Corporation.
2012 Boating Writers International Winners
Boating Columns
1st: Off Watch by Wendy Mitman Clarke
3rd: Log of s/v Del Viento by Michael Robertson
Boating Lifestyles
3rd: To Wanderer III, a Toast by Thies Matzen
Merit awards:
Swallowing the Anchor by Beth Leonard
Boat as Idea by Jim Carrier
Boating Profiles
1st: Fortitudine Vincimus by Herb McCormick
2nd: From Zero to a Hundred by Elaine Lembo
Boating Travel or Destinations
1st: The Descendants by Peter Nichols
2nd: Up Where We Belong by Alvah Simon
3rd: One Waypoint at a Time by Matt Rutherford
Merit Awards:
The Daddy Diaries by Darrell Nicholson
An Island Steps Ahead of its Time by Wendy Mitman Clarke
Boating Adventures
1st: When The Wrong Sail Is The Right Sail by Cap’n Fatty Goodlander
Boat/Engine Care and Maintenance
1st: A Motoring Muse by Ben Zartman
Ethics and Environment
2nd: A Heartbreaking Decision – A Whale Saved by Michael Robertson
Technical Writing
3rd: How Sailboats Measure Up by Jeremy McGeary
Gear, Electronics and Product Tests
2nd: Banishing the Fumes by Webb Chiles
