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