OCC Member and Connecticut Port Officer, Bob Osborn, was welcomed to the Gibraltar Straits by a pod of Orcas in the summer of 2025. Within a few minutes he lost both his Hydrovane rudder and 1/3rd of his main rudder. In this Webinar Bob interviews Rui Alves who runs the Orca reporting website orcas.pt. Bob describes his Orca encounter and Rui explains the statistics, the behaviour and how best to avoid and respond to attacks.

Duncan and Larissa Copeland have been professionally involved in ocean ecology for many years. When they decided to take their young family sailing, they set up a citizens science directory to help other boats link with projects. The whole family have been fully engaged with many research projects all the way across the Pacific. Along the way they have encouraged many fellow cruising boats to connect with Citizens Science Projects. In this interview Duncan describes how engaging with scientists has enhanced their family adventure and contributed useful data to a range of different projects. https://www.freerangeocean.org/aboutfreerangeocean

Will Spencer, a yacht master instructor, advises novice ocean sailors about how to prepare their boats and themselves for an ocean crossing. In this webinar he talks about loss of mast, loss of steering, fire, man-over-board, flooding and abandoning ship as well as medical emergencies. His emphasis is on prevention and planning. Will's business is: https://www.whitedotsailing.com/

Jamie and Behan coach and mentor cruisers worldwide from their sailboat S/V Totem. Having circumnavigated with their young family they are now cruising at a leisurely pace in the Western Pacific. They arrived in Japan in June 2025 and like it so much they adjusted their plans to remain in Japanese waters for more than a year before heading down to Taiwan.

Anette and Anders are passionate ocean wanderers who have been living aboard S/V Horizon, their Outbound 46, since 2018. They were in New Zealand and wanted to sail to Tasmania but they took a long route via Japan and Alaska. In this meticulous presentation they describe the voyage which began in early June 2025. They crossed in 9 days from Hokaido to Attu and then hugged the Aleutian Archipelago spending most of their time within the 12 mile limit in order to limit their Starlink bill. They describe the flora and fauna they encountered along the way and offer copious advice to those wishing to follow in their wake. Only 8 sailboats made this voyage in the summer of 2025.

Ocean Cruising Club Challenge Grant winner 2024, Charlie Young, is a marine scientist living aboard her sail boat in the Caribbean. She presents an overview of the the ecosystems in the Caribbean and the threats they are facing. She talks about best practices for cruisers and suggests citizen science projects that cruisers can engage with to both further their own knowledge and inform the scientific community.

Bojan is a professional sailor and OCC member based in the Netherlands who works very closely with the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. He has extensive experience with downwind sailing techniques and has put together this thoughtful webinar to help those preparing for a long tradewind passage.

Daria, though born in New Jersey is of Ukrainian descent. After a successful corporate career she became an avid sailor and a huge contributor to the Ocean Cruising Club and the sailing community. She now lives with her husband, Alex, in a remote corner of Ireland's west coast where she has half an acre of grape vines producing 700 bottles a year. She is a staunch environmentalist and looks after rescued donkeys.

A beautiful and poignant film about The Reverend Bob Shepton who is an Ocean Cruising Club Honorary Member. This film, made 5 years ago, tells the story of Bob’s extraordinary adventures as he sells his beloved boat, Dodo’s Delight, to care for his ailing wife. We are pleased to report that, 5 years on, Bob is still sailing to distant shores and inspiring us all to follow in his wake.

OCC Challenge Grant winner Nicole Trenholm sends in her first video from Greenland. The OCC is pleased to support the Ocean Research Project with a Conservation Challenge Grant towards monitoring coastal Greenland’s capacity as a natural carbon sink and how climate change impacts the natural carbon absorption process. Ocean Research Project’s GO-MARIE (Glacier-Ocean Mapping and Research Interdisciplinary Effort) mission is led by oceanographer Nicole Trenholm (PhD candidate at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences) and Captain Matthew Rutherford.

SY Cruising Independence; 2023/24; Richard Delfosse. Join the crew of Independence as we explore the Fiji islands, The Yasawa island chain and the beautiful Lau Group. Meet the people, the culture and see the beauty of these islands that are difficult to reach. Enjoy!

We are happy to welcome you at the webinar "sail repair at sea" given by Patrick van der Walle. Marcus Noordermeer and Willie Ambergen will moderate this webinar.

Anneke Sips sailed 15,000 miles and learned much about provisioning and cooking along the way. In this webinar she shares her top ten tips.

S/V Thor was designed and built for a short handed transit of the NWP. This webinar describes in detail the challenges that high latitude sailing can present and how those challenges influenced the design and build of this remarkable yacht.  With guests Victor Wejer (OCC Port Officer NWP) & Tom Zagon (Canadian Ice Service), Gerd & Melissa traversed the NWP in 2024 and enjoyed the company of 5 other OCC yachts along the way. The Marggraff's describe how they prepared for the NWP and how their plans worked out.

Ralf & Wiebke's describe their passage from Hawaii to Alaska and the summer that they spent cruising around Sitka and Glacier Bay. Their talk is illustrated with stunning photographs of landscape, flora and wildlife. They describe the practicalities and delights of cruising this sparsely inhabited and rugged coast.

The building and voyages of Helacious by Brian and Helen Russell

Judith Jacobsen describes the voyage of S/V Touché along the challenging coastline of Patagonia. Judith and Håkon sailed from North to South in Patagonia on S/Y Touché, their Island Packet 380. They sailed from Puerto Montt to Puerto Williams, and around Cape Horn. An amazing sail: 3 months in the most remote waters in the world. Followed by dolphins and sometimes penguins. Fabulous views of glaciers and the Southern Icefield. Every night we anchored in small Caletas. Immersed in the stories about Slocum and Tillman, as their stories sometimes determined where we anchored up. We had lots of wind, but also days of no wind and sunshine, as well as days where we holed up in a well-protected anchorage, while it was blowing 70-80 knots through the Canals. Once, feasting on Centollas (King Crab) that nice fishermen gifted to us, while telling us that we had two more days to wait, then we could sail on. A detour of 160 nm to Puerto Natales, provided the opportunity for a visit in the National Park: Torres del Paine, which was absolutely worth it. They finished up rounding the Horn, on the longest day of the year, and even managed to get ashore on the Horn and meet the Lighthouse family.

Nick Olson is PredictWind's Business Development Manager and in this Ocean Cruising Club Webinar he answers many questions from an OCC audience of experienced users. This is not a step by step guide to using PredictWind but gives a broad overview of the data sources, the models, the non-weather features and future plans.

In this second episode of Zora's Altantic Circuit, Rhys describes his icy voyage through Prins Christian Sund to Iceland and Ireland. Along the way he was accompanied by Luke Franklin who was sponsored by the Ocean Cruising Club's Youth Sponsorship scheme.

An interview with Fabian Fernandez who is one of very few Malaysian sailors to undertake a short-handed circumnavigation in a sailboat. He describes the cultural and financial barriers he has encountered as well as the great support he has received from his Ocean Cruising Club mentor in America.