THE PLATINUM SUPPLEMENT The Ocean Cruising Club from 2015 until 2024 Researching and writing this Supplement has fallen to me as OCC Archivist and I have done my best to produce an accurate and readable account. In the interests of clarity I have referred to myself in the third person throughout, and to a large extent have worked chronologically. Dividing each year into ‘Events and rallies’, ‘On the water’ and ‘Board and General Committee (GC) discussions/decisions’ may seem somewhat arbitrary, but allows the reader to skip aspects in which they have no interest. Parts of this account may be of more interest to future members ten, twenty or even thirty years down the line, when a new volume – presumably entitled The Second Fifty Years – will be required to follow on from Tony Vasey’s highly readable The First Fifty Years, available online at www.oceancruisingclub.org/Publications. Bill McLaren’s Diamond Supplement, printed in Flying Fish 2015/1, is downloadable from the same page. Far more detail of the Club’s internal workings will be found in the AGM, Board and GC Minutes of the period, most of which are available to members at www. oceancruisingclub.org/members/documents – a good opportunity for me to express my admiration and thanks to Club Secretary Rachelle Turk for her clear and accurate Minutes. Every club should be so lucky! Nearly, though not all, the voyages and events mentioned are described in more detail in either the Flying Fish archive at www.oceancruisingclub.org/ Flying-Fish-Archive or the Newsletter archive at www.oceancruisingclub.org/ members/Newsletters.
The Past Decade – an Overview Our Club has changed a good deal over the past ten years, nearly all for the better. In late 2014 we had 2046 members, 47% based in the UK, 34% in North America and 19% scattered throughout the rest of the world. By the end of 2024 this had grown to 3752 members, with 39% based in the UK, 35% in North America and 26% Osprey, Bruce McKenzie’s Rival 36, going hard to windward 1