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The Ocean Cruising Club New Cruising Information Website
The Commodore of the Ocean Cruising Club undertook a survey of what our members wanted and expected from the Club. One of the responses was that the Club should continue to improve the web site. He also received responses that we should do more to foster our sport for all participants – not just members of our own Club. As a way of meeting these expectations, we have over the past year and a half carried out a major exercise to create a Cruising Information Web Site that will in the fullness of time be available to other Cruising Clubs in addition to our own.
This has been a major effort for us. The project has now reached the point that it needs to be ‘primed’ with information so that testing of the sites functionality can be completed. We now need your help! Entering information is easy and can be done directly on line.
Please log in to the new site, http://cic.oceancruisingclub.org using your existing OCC user name and password, find the Cruising Area (Country, Island etc) where you are based and add a PLACE REPORT about somewhere you have experience. Simple instructions how to do this are attached; there is no fixed format; just add comment that would be useful to others. These cover how you may yourself enter a Place Report and also enter other types of information into the site, if this project captures your imagination,
This new CIS site is now the main site for OCC Cruising Information. The existing site www.oceancruisingclub.org will continue to serve us for all other web tasks.
We hope to share Cruising Information with members of clubs other than just the Ocean Cruising Club. Please understand that it is not our intention to ‘open up’ the Port Officer network to other Clubs. The only thing we are doing here is sharing cruising information with other Clubs and in return, of course, they will share information with us.
Please help us to make this a success and follow the instructions below to make your entry into the website system.
George Curtis, Vice Commodore |
