| YEAR | WINNER | VESSEL/NAME | LINK |
| 2025 | Not awarded | Not awarded | |
| 2024 | Steve Umpleby | Steam Tug "Yorkshireman" | (click) |
| 2023 | Not awarded | Not awarded | |
| 2022 | Steve Umpleby | Steam Tug "Lady Pamela" | (click) |
| 2021 | Stephen Agar | Coaster "Fidget" | |
| 2020 | Coronavirus | Covid-19 | |
| 2019 | Tony Middleton | Steam Drifter "Hedra" | (click) |
| 2018 | Brian Wormald | Trawler "Kingston Peridot" | (click) |
| 2017 | Richard Hargreaves | Trading Ketch "Mary Fletcher" | |
| 2016 | D E Stephenson | Morning cloud | |
| 2015 | J B Holt | Coble "Boy Willie" | (click) |
| 2014 | Nick Kendall | E -Boat | (click) |
| 2013 | Bob Allison | Vietnam Boat | |
| 2012 | Tom Pearce | HMS Bryony | (click) |
