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20 April 2013
OCC Awards
OCC Award of Merit
Tim Severin
Dick Giddings
James Wharram
OCC Award
Fergus and Kay Quinlan
Geoff Pack Memorial Award
Val Howells
The Jester Medal
Matt Rutherford
The Vasey Vase
Rev. Bob Shepton
The Rose Medal
David Tyler
The Barton Cup
Patrick and Amanda Marshall
The Rambler Medal
Jim and Kate Thomsen
The David Wallis Trophy
Maggie Nelson
The Water Music Trophy
John Kirkus
The Qualifier’s Mug
The Smith Family (David, Sarah, Bethany & Bryn)
The Port Officer Medal
John Van Schalkwyk
"The sea hates a coward.“
- Eugene O'Neill
To a member or non-member for performing some outstanding voyage or achievement (may award more than one per year!)
Non-fiction epics
Fictional tales
"Any damn fool can navigate the world sober.
It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.“
- Sir Francis Chichester
To a member or non-member for performing some outstanding voyage or achievement
s/v Tangaroa
“Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way
of being terrified I know.”
- Donald Hamilton
To a member or non-member for performing some outstanding voyage or achievement
Dick & Judy Giddings
“Never in my life before have I experienced such
beauty, and fear at the same time.”
- Dame Ellen MacArthur
To a member or non-member who, by his or her writing, has done most to foster and encourage ocean cruising in small craft.
"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it
has been the accomplice of human restlessness.“
- Joseph Conrad
For an outstanding contribution to the art of single-handed sailing by a member or non-member
*Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating
"A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's."
- Bernard Moitessier
To a member or Port Officer non-member who has done most to “foster and encourage ocean cruising in small craft and the practice of seamanship and navigation in all branches”.
s/v Pylades
"I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things
about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man".
-Joshua Slocum
For the most meritorious short-handed voyage by a club member(s)
s/v Tystie
“The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.”
- Dom Degnon
For the most meritorious voyage by a club member(s)
s/v Egret
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea...”
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
For the most meritorious short voyage by a club member(s)
s/v Tenaya
“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until
you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me,
sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.
There's no quarter.”
- Morgan Freeman
For a voyage of an unusual or exploratory nature made by a Club member
“The person who goes farthest is generally the one
who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never
gets far from shore.”
- Dale Carnegie
For the most valuable contribution to ‘Flying Fish’. The recipient is nominated by the Editorial Sub-Committee.
"Cruising has two pleasures. One is to go out in wider
waters from a sheltered place. The other is to go into a
sheltered place from wider waters."
- Howard Bloomfield
To a member who has contributed most to the Club by way of providing cruising information, navigation and pilotage.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain
For the most ambitious or arduous qualifying voyage by a new member as submitted for publication in the OCC journal, “Flying Fish” or in the OCC Newsletter.
s/y Cape
‘we survived a month at sea with Mum and Dad!’
“A tourist remains an outsider throughout his visit; but a
sailor is part of the local scene from the moment he arrives.”
- Anne Davison
For the most outstanding contribution from a Port Officer
“The ideal cruise requires a good yacht,
pleasant company, and a strange coast with
plenty of islands and rocks.”
- Humphrey Barton