Doug and Dale Bruce’s Bluewater sailing off St Vincent after which the burgee helped them start making new cruising friends from all over the globe. After moving ashore in Camden Maine in 2000 they became OCC Port Officers, a job held somewhat in absentia for several years while cruising in Newfoundland. In late 2008 they were elected Regional Rear Commodores for North East USA, and organised numerous successful cruises in company in Newfoundland and Maine as well as events from Delaware Bay to the Canadian Maritimes. They won the 2006 Rambler Medal for their circumnavigation of Newfoundland aboard Bluewater, sailing more than 3000 miles and visiting 40 different coves, harbours and anchorages, and the Geoff Pack Memorial Award in 2010 for updating and largely re-writing The Cruising Guide to Newfoundland.
THE OCC PORT OFFICER MEDAL Instituted in 2008, the Port Officer Medal is awarded to one or more Port Officer(s) or Port Officer Representative(s) who has/have provided outstanding service to the Club and the wider sailing community by developing and promoting their port, harbour or area. Our Port Officers give remarkable service to us all. They fix things, they make things work – and if they can’t, they invariably ‘know a man who can’. Amongst the many nominations for individual Port Officers and Port Officer Representatives there were two outstanding candidates, both with multiple nominations, so two awards are being made. That Jesse James is recognised and appreciated in his home island of Trinidad, as well as by the many yachtsmen who nominated him, is evidenced by the fact that the Trinidad & Tobago Tourism Board helped to sponsor Jesse, together with his wife and daughter, to fly to London to attend the Awards Dinner. We were delighted to have them with us. Jesse James has been serving the cruising community in Trinidad since 1997, long before he was recruited as an OCC Port Officer Representative in January 2010. He runs his Maxi-Taxi Service as a family business, offering free supermarket runs and 12