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The Ocean
Cruising Club

To be a part of the OCC is to be a part of a group of people who have said 'yes' to adventure and who will welcome you if you choose to do the same.

The people in the Ocean Cruising Club represent the distilled essence of the cruising community, a potent combination of accomplishment, experience, idealism, eccentricity, generosity and humility.

The sole qualification for Full membership, entails stepping aboard a boat and making a continuous ocean passage of at least 1000 nautical miles, measured by the shortest practical Great Circle route between two ports, in a vessel not more than 70 feet overall length. Associate Members join aspiring to do the same and being inspired by those who already have.

13 Sep 2024

OCC Challenge Grant Awarded to support “Voyage to the Wild”

By Charlie Young and Derrick Thorrington

The Ocean Cruising Clubs gives financial support to ambitious sailors undertaking exceptional voyages or marine based environmental projects. An OCC Challenge Grant has been given to Charlie Young. ....

10 Sep 2024

Harsh conditions for OCC boats in the North West Passage

By Gerd & Melissa Marggraff

OCC Members, Gerd & Melissa Marggraff on S/V Thor, report on their progress as they near the end of the NWP. They also responded to an emergency on another OCC boat but all ended well. ....

03 Sep 2024

OCC North West Passage Videocast, Final Epsisode, September 2024

By Simon Currin

The final episode follows the stories of OCC boats transiting the NWP during the summer of 2024 ....

02 Sep 2024

The Challenge of the North West Passage

By Victor Wejer and the crew of S/V Thor

Ocean Cruising Club North West Passage S/V Thor ....

01 Sep 2024

OCC Pacific Videocast August 2024

By Simon Currin

OCC crews currently sailing the Pacific discuss their experiences and their plans ....

28 Aug 2024

OCC Port Officers

By Simon Currin

The Ocean Cruising Club is blessed with a global network of Port Officers who provide a friendly face in a foreign port for OCC Members wherever they cruise. ....

27 Aug 2024

OCC 70th Anniversary Macronesia Cruise

By Linda Lane Thornton

The OCC Macronesia Cruise has begun in the Azores and will sail east to Madeira and the Canary Islands ....

26 Aug 2024

OCC Members lead climate change expedition to the Arctic

By Simon Currin

Brothers, Alex & Isak, are two young OCC Members from Norway piloting an expedition yacht, S/V Abel Tasman, through the North West Passage to undertake research into climate change. ....

26 Aug 2024

OCC West Country Muster at Falmouth

By Simon Currin

Every year the Ocean Cruising Club has a late August dinner at the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club followed, the next day, by a Pontoon Party. ....

25 Aug 2024

Ocean Cruising Club Youth Sponsorship recipient sails to the Arctic

By Simon Currin

A beneficiary of an OCC Youth Sponsorship Programme award teamed up with Rhys Walters, Roving Rear Commodore to sail home to Ireland via Greenland’s Prince Christian Sund on board S/V Zora. ....

23 Aug 2024

Pam MacBrayne & Denis Moonan receive the 2024 OCC Vertue Award

By Doug & Dale Bruce

This award is “given to the OCC member in North America (USA and Canada) who best represents Club founder Humphrey Barton through sailing achievements and service to the OCC". ....

17 Aug 2024

OCC North West Passage Videocast Episode 3, August 16th 2024

By Simon Currin

The OCC North West Passage Fleet are now closing on the more difficult sections of the NWP ....

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