{"id":22010,"date":"2015-01-13T22:47:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T22:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22010"},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:53:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T22:53:18","slug":"ocean-cruising-club-announces-2014-awards-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/01\/ocean-cruising-club-announces-2014-awards-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Cruising Club Announces 2014 Awards Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ocean Cruising Club (The OCC) has announced the recipients of the OCC Awards for 2014. Each year the OCC recognizes the achievements of ordinary individuals doing extraordinary things on the world\u2019s oceans and brings those achievements to the attention of the sailing community at large. The OCC Awards Sub-Committee, composed of accomplished members from around the world, made the announcement at the Club\u2019s annual January dinner.<\/p>\n

The recipient of the club\u2019s premier award for members, The Barton Cup, is OCC Member the Reverend Bob Shepton<\/strong>.\u00a0 Having won this award previously in 1995, Bob is now recognized for his recent Northwest Passage and Greenland sailing\/climbing expeditions. His writing regularly appears in sailing and climbing magazines worldwide and his book, Addicted to Adventure: Between rocks and cold places<\/em>, released in 2014 has received critical acclaim.<\/p>\n

The OCC Award of Merit, an award that recognizes both members and non-members, goes to Peter Semotiuk<\/strong>(non-member) for his exceptional radio service to sailors transiting the NW Passage. Now retired, Peter was dubbed the \u201cNorthwest Passage\u2019s own night watchman\u201d. As a private contractor for the North Warning System, for more than twenty years he has spent the evenings beside his radio broadcasting weather and ice conditions to sailors attempting the Passage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is testament to the global nature of the OCC that members from all over the world submitted a record number of high quality nominations for this year\u2019s Awards, representing the sailing community in all of the world\u2019s oceans. This is truly fitting in this 60th<\/sup> Anniversary Year of the OCC\u2019s founding.\u201d said Commodore John Franklin.<\/p>\n

\u201cJudging the candidates this year involved a great deal of reading, research and analysis,\u201d added Jenny Franklin, Chairman of the Awards Subcommittee.\u00a0 \u201cAs one judge put it, \u2018it has been an inspiration to me personally to read of the amazing exploits of the members of this Club\u2019. We had a stellar team of 11 members representing 6 countries on the Awards selection panel and are immensely grateful for their time and commitment to this task.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Awards will be formally presented to the winners at the Annual Awards Dinner aboard the HQS Wellington in London on the 28th<\/sup> of March.\u00a0<\/strong>For a full list of award winners and to see their stories visit\u00a0www.oceancruisingclub.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ocean Cruising Club (The OCC) has announced the recipients of the OCC Awards for 2014. Each year the OCC recognizes the achievements of ordinary individuals doing extraordinary things on the world\u2019s oceans and brings those achievements to the attention of the sailing community at large. The OCC Awards Sub-Committee, composed of accomplished members from around the world, made the announcement at the Club\u2019s annual January dinner. The recipient of the club\u2019s premier award for members, The Barton Cup, is OCC Member the Reverend Bob Shepton.\u00a0 Having won this award previously in 1995, Bob is now recognized for his recent Northwest Passage and Greenland sailing\/climbing expeditions. His writing regularly appears in sailing and climbing magazines worldwide and his book, Addicted to Adventure: Between rocks and cold places, released in 2014 has received critical acclaim. The OCC Award of Merit, an award that recognizes both members and non-members, goes to Peter Semotiuk(non-member) for his exceptional radio service to sailors transiting the NW Passage. Now retired, Peter was dubbed the \u201cNorthwest Passage\u2019s own night watchman\u201d. As a private contractor for the North Warning System, for more than twenty years he has spent the evenings beside his radio broadcasting weather and ice conditions …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[323,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22014,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22010\/revisions\/22014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}