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Latest OCC News

OCC Member, Rick Delfosse, presents a talk about sailing in Fiji and Australia

Rick present a talk about his experiences when cruising around Fiji and Australia’s East Coast aboard S/V Independence.

by Rick Delfosse - 23/04/2025

RIP Simon Julien, past OCC Roving Rear Commodore.

Cdr Simon Julien RN died on 31st December. He was a long standing member of the Ocean Cruising Club.

by Simon Currin - 22/04/2025

OCC Honorary Member, Jeanne Socrates, visits east coast of Australia

Jeanne Socrates, 82, is causing a stir in Australia as she sails up the East Coast of Australia singlehanded.

by Simon Currin - 21/04/2025

Ocean Cruising Club Long Range Communications Survey Results

The OCC has conducted a survey of its members to discover what communications equipment is being used when offshore in 2025.

by Neil McCubbin - 18/04/2025

OCC Challenge Grant recipient, Novara One Planet, now in Caribbean

Ocean Cruising Club Challenge Grants have been awarded to good environmental and adventurous causes since 2019. An early recipient, Novara One Planet, shares a video of their work in Providencia.

by Steve Brown - 18/04/2025

OCC member launches a new App to manage boat maintenance and inventory

Robert Van de Plas, a Dutch OCC Member, has launched a new app to help sailors manage their boat maintenance and their boat inventory.

by Simon Currin - 11/04/2025

Amazon Kuiper will launch soon to compete with Starlink

Since Starlink became available in 2023 many cruisers have grown used to broadband at sea. Today the first Amazon Kuiper satellites were scheduled to be launched to compete with Starlink.

by Simon Currin - 10/04/2025

Ocean Cruising Club Dinner and Awards Presentations 2025

Below are some links to videos of the Awards presentations held at Newport, Rhode Island, USA on April 5th 2025.

by Simon Currin - 09/04/2025

2025 Annual General Meeting (recording)

The 20th Annual General Meeting of the Ocean Cruising Club Ltd was held on Saturday 5 April 2025 at Viking Hotel, Newport Rhode Island, USA

by SC - 09/04/2025

Whangarei Gathering and the presentation of the Jester and Water Music Awards

The annual OCC get together in Whangarei, New Zealand saw the presentation of the OCCs Jester Award to Jaqueline Evers and the Water Music Award to Carla Gregory and Alex Helbig.

by RM - 07/04/2025

OCC Vertue Award presentation in Newport, Rhode Island.

The North American Ocean Cruising Club Regional Rear Commodores have awarded the Vertue Award 2024 to Pamela MacBrayne and Denis Moonan.

by SC - 04/04/2025

A marine investigation concludes that S/V Theros was lost after a fire on board

Last summer the crew of S/V Theros were found dead in a dinghy on Sable Island NS. The report has been published by Noonsite.com

by SC - 31/03/2025

OCC Charitable Trust donates to Caribbean WISH Foundation

The Ocean Cruising Club Charitable Trust has made a second donation to the WISH foundation. The money will be used to provide sail training to young people from Antigua.

by SC - 25/03/2025

Jasmine Harrison continues her circumnavigation

A young British adventurer will start her 6,000 passage from Panama to Fiji this week.

by SC - 24/03/2025

Declining Arctic Sea Ice

The average February 2025 Arctic sea ice extent was 13.75 million km2, the lowest February extent in the 47-year satellite record and 220,000 km2 below the previous record low set in 2018.

by Steve Brown - 21/03/2025

Chris Parker Worries About Forecasting Future

Chris Parker, founder and chief forecaster for the Marine Weather Center https://www.mwxc.com/, based in Florida, serving mariners around the world.

by SC - 17/03/2025

OCC Linton Bay Rendezvous.

Ocean Cruising Club Members muster in Panama

by Chris & Bill Burry - 11/03/2025

Ocean Cruising Club Awards 2024: OCC Award

Zdenka Griswold has been given the OCC Award in recognition of her outstanding service to the OCC.

by SC - 01/03/2025

OCC Challenge Grant Awardees Duncan & Larissa

Following on from an earlier post about the award of an OCC Challenge Grant, it is good to see that the news has been picked up by Sail Magazine

by SC - 27/02/2025

Ocean Cruising Club Awards 2024: OCC Events & Rallies

Reg Barker is the worthy winner of the OCC Events and Rallies Award for inspiring an extraordinary year of celebrations to honour the OCC's 70th birthday