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Latest OCC News

2025 Photo Competition: "Full Canvas"

OCC gathering in Halifax, Nova Scotia

The Ocean Cruising Club Port Officer for Halifax, Nova Scotis hosted a lunch for passing cruisers.

by Simon Currin - 15/09/2025

A commercial freighter runs aground in the Arctic en route from China

As ice retreats from the Arctic the North West Passage is becoming a route for freight. A 21,000 ton freighter is now grounded in the Franklin Strait.

by Simon Currin - 08/09/2025

The Cruising Club of America cruise to the Grenadines 2026

The CCA have invited OCC members to participate in their Grenadines Cruise 2026

by Simon Currin - 07/09/2025

OCC Challenge Grant Winner, Nicole Trenholm: Ocean Research Project video

Nicole reports on her research in Greenland

by Simon Currin - 01/09/2025

Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025

The 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year competition celebrates Big Blue’s striking beauty and also highlights the urgent need to protect it in a rapidly changing world.

by Simon Currin - 18/08/2025

S/V’s Bonny, Snow Bear, Mantra and Helacious rendezvous in Greenland

Four rugged OCC boats are sharing an anchorage in southern Greenland having experienced some Greenlandic weather. The remnants of their OCC burgee says it all!

by Simon Currin - 16/08/2025

Hurricane Erin

Tropical Storm Erin forms, to become first Atlantic hurricane of 2025

by Simon Currin - 15/08/2025

Great Barrier Reef suffers worst annual decline since records began

A report by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) describes how parts of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef exhibit the largest annual decline since records began.

by Simon Currin - 05/08/2025

A personal account of cruising the Pacific’s ‘Difficult Middle’ in 2025

Ocean cruisers have always had to be patient but changing weather patterns are forcing us to make more nuanced decisions and adapt to whatever comes our way. S/V Shimshal is now facing those choices.

by Simon Currin - 05/08/2025

Tsunami information for cruisers

OCC Members Behan and Jamie Gifford have shared a webinar for cruisers on Tsunamis

by Behan & Jamie Gifford - 05/08/2025

The first named storm of the summer will strike Scotland as the CCA Rally ends

The Cruising Club of America have enjoyed typically Scottish weather for their Hebridean cruise but, as they depart, 80 knot winds are on the way.

by Simon Currin - 02/08/2025

Thanks to Ocean Cruising Club Port Officers

Nigel Jollands, the skipper of S/V Novara, writes in praise of the global OCC Port Officer network.

by Nigel Jollands - 28/07/2025

OCC Beach Party on Maupihaa, French Polynesia

The Ocean Cruising Club boats anchored on Maupihaa met with other cruisers for a beach potluck supper. Thanks go to Michael and Anne Hartshorn, OCC Roving Rear Commodores, for organising.

by Simon Currin - 28/07/2025

Starlink’s longest ever outage was caused by a software upgrade

Last week the whole Starlink network went offline for 2.5 hours - the longest outage in Starlink’s history. The cause was a software upgrade.

by Simon Currin - 27/07/2025

Ocean Cruising Club boats hang out in some cool places

By coincidence, no less than 5 OCC boats are all sharing the same anchorage on a very remote atoll 250 miles west of Tahiti.

by Simon Currin - 22/07/2025

The Cruising Club of America (CCA) Western Isles Cruise arrives in Scotland

45 OCC members helped welcome the CCA to Scotland by participating in a giant Sunflower near Tobermory.

by Reg Barker - 21/07/2025

Rare Six Commodore Rendezvous

The Cruising Club of America Western Isles Cruise has started in Loch Drambuie with six cruising club commodores leading the celebrations.