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Written by Editor
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Tuesday, 14 June 2005 |
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The Club Awards for 2004
THE OCC AWARD OF MERITOne or more awards, open to members or non-members who have performed some outstanding voyage or achievement.
Awarded to non-member Jeremy Lines for outstanding achievements in developing and improving the Nicholson range of yachts, and for providing ongoing support to owners worldwide since his retirement eight years ago. THE GEOFF PACK MEMORIAL AWARD
For the person (member or non-member) who, by his or her writing, has done most to foster and encourage ocean cruising in small craft. Awarded to Anne Hammick for her extensive writing of cruising and pilot books over the past 18 years and her editorship of Flying Fish since 1990. THE BARTON CUPFor the most meritorious voyage made by a Club member.  Awarded to John Ridgway for his unsponsored 327-day circumnavigation, together with his wife Marie Christine, aboard their Bowman 57 ketch English Rose VI, undertaken to publicise the threatened extinction of the albatross. THE RAMBLER MEDALFor the most meritorious short voyage made by a Club member. Awarded to Graham Evans for his and Anne’s passage through the Straits of Magellan in their cat-rigged Freedom 39 schooner Fyne Spirit during the course of their westabout circumnavigation (see Flying Fish 2004/1). THE ROSE MEDALFor the most meritorious short-handed voyage made by a Club member. Awarded to Peter Ingram for his and Katharine’s Pacific cruise in their newly-acquired Pacific 38 sloop Kokiri, from New Zealand to Micronesia and latterly onward to Alaska and British Columbia (see Flying Fish 2004/2). THE OCC AWARDFor the member who has done most to ‘foster and encourage ocean cruising in small craft ... which may include any invention, report, idea or action which is calculated to promote the objects of the Club’. Awarded to past Commodore Tony Vasey for researching and writing the highly impressive The Ocean Cruising Club – The First Fifty Years, a fascinating account of the Club’s history which was circulated to all members last autumn. THE WATER MUSIC TROPHYFor the member who has contributed most to the Club by way of providing cruising, navigation or pilotage information. Not awarded. THE DAVID WALLIS TROPHYFor the ‘most valuable contribution to Flying Fish’, decided by ballot of the Editorial Sub-Committee. Awarded to George Curtis for his technical yet highly readable article Abnormal Waves, featured in Flying Fish 2004/1, itself inspired by a symposium on so-called ‘freak’ waves hosted by the Honourable Company of Master Mariners. THE QUALIFIER’S MUG
For the most ambitious or arduous qualifying voyage by a new member as submitted for publication in Flying Fish. Awarded to Tim Harradine and Alison Grove for their qualifying passage from New Zealand to Tonga in their Morgan 36 Intercept, as described in Flying Fish 2004/2. THE VASEY VASEFor a ‘voyage of an unusual or exploratory nature’ made by a Club member. Awarded to the Reverend Bob Shepton for his passage to Greenland aboard his 33ft Westerly Discus Dodo’s Delight with a crew of climbers and skiers during which they reached 78°32’N – thought to be the furthest north ever reached by a GRP yacht on the Greenlandic coast (see Flying Fish 2004/2). The subsequent sad loss of the yacht is described in this issue. |
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