The 2012 Ocean Cruising Club awards presented 20 April 2013 in London. For more information, visit the OCC website http://www.oceancruisingclub.org/.

2. 20 April 2013

4. OCC Awards

5. 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

6. "The sea hates a coward.“
- Eugene O'Neill

7. To a member or non-member for performing some
outstanding voyage or achievement (may award more
than one per year!)

9. Non-fiction epics

10. Fictional tales

11. "Any damn fool can
navigate the world sober.
It takes a really good sailor
to do it drunk.“
- Sir Francis Chichester

12. To a member or non-member for performing some
outstanding voyage or achievement

14. s/v Tangaroa

17. “Being hove to in a long
gale is the most boring way
of being terrified I know.”
- Donald Hamilton

18. To a member or non-member for performing some
outstanding voyage or achievement

19. Dick & Judy Giddings

21. “Never in my life before
have I experienced such
beauty, and fear at the
same time.”
- Dame Ellen MacArthur

22. To a member or non-member who, by his or her writing,
has done most to foster and encourage ocean cruising in
small craft.

25. "The sea has never been
friendly to man. At most it
has been the accomplice
of human restlessness.“
- Joseph Conrad

26. For an outstanding contribution to the art of single-
handed sailing by a member or non-member

30. *Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating

31. "A sailor's joys are as
simple as a child's."
- Bernard Moitessier

32. 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”.

33. s/v Pylades

35. "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

36. For the most meritorious short-handed voyage
by a club member(s)

38. s/v Tystie

39. “The lovely thing about
cruising is that planning
usually turns out to be of
little use.”
- Dom Degnon

40. For the most meritorious voyage by a club member(s)

41. s/v Egret

43. “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

44. For the most meritorious short voyage by
a club member(s)

45. s/v Tenaya

46. “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

47. For a voyage of an unusual or exploratory nature made
by a Club member

52. “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

53. For the most valuable contribution to ‘Flying Fish’. The
recipient is nominated by the Editorial Sub-Committee.

55. "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

56. To a member who has contributed most to the Club by
way of providing cruising information, navigation
and pilotage.

58. “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

59. 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.

60. s/y Cape

61. ‘we survived a month at sea with Mum and Dad!’

62. “A tourist remains an outsider
throughout his visit; but a
sailor is part of the local scene
from the moment he arrives.”
- Anne Davison

63. For the most outstanding contribution from a Port Officer

66. “The ideal cruise requires
a good yacht,
pleasant company,
and a strange coast with
plenty of islands and rocks.”
- Humphrey Barton