Salty Dawg Rally, Ocean Cruising Club Agree to Work Together, Promote Common Goals
Bristol, Rhode Island, USA – The Salty Dawg Rally, a ‘grassroots’ free cruising rally for blue-water sailors, and the Ocean Cruising Club (OCC), a distinguished international club for cruisers, announce an agreement to work together to promote common goals, following a meeting at the recent U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis, MD. Salty Dawg Rally (SDR) co-founders Bill and Linda Knowles and the OCC agreed to find ways to collaborate to promote safe, competent, enjoyable cruising of the world’s oceans and ports of call. The Knowles met with Sid and Rebecca Shaw of the OCC in Annapolis; Sid and Rebecca are USA Southeast Regional Rear Commodores of the OCC.
“We’re excited by the opportunity to work together with the globally-recognized premier cruising organization for blue-water sailors,” said Bill Knowles, co-founder of the Salty Dawg Rally. “Both organizations are dedicated to promoting prudent seamanship, safe passage-making, and fostering a true cooperative spirit within the cruising community. We also share the requirement that our members be true blue-water sailors who have completed qualifying passages for membership. We’re honored to work with OCC, whose distinctive blue and yellow burgee with a stylized Flying Fish is a welcome and respected sight in any anchorage.”
About The Salty Dawg Rally
The Salty Dawg Rally is a ‘grass-roots’ rally, free for all participants, founded by cruising enthusiasts Bill & Linda Knowles of Bristol, Rhode Island, with their Jeanneau 54DS, Sapphire, and their Jack Russell terrier, Brie, the original ‘Salty Dawg’. The rally leaves Hampton, Virginia in the fall, headed for the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and other ports in the Caribbean, and returns to the participants’ various home ports in the spring. Members of the Rally receive sponsor-supplied products and services. For more information about joining the Rally, visit www.saltydawgrally.org.
About the Ocean Cruising Club (OCC):
The Ocean Cruising Club (OCC) is an international club, administered from the UK, for cruisers, founded in 1954 by the late Humphrey Barton. The OCC promotes long-distance cruising in all its forms. The sole qualification for membership is the completion of a continuous ocean passage of at least 1000 nautical miles, measured along the rhumb line, in a vessel under 70 feet, and is open to anyone aboard, either skipper or certified as competent by the skipper.
The Ocean Cruising Club maintains an active and vibrant network of over 150 Port Officers worldwide to assist members in their undertakings, and also has a number of Roving Rear Commodores worldwide tasked to “fly the flag”. To draw members together, the OCC organizes a number of cruises, rallies and get-togethers in different areas of the world. For more information, visit www.oceancruisingclub.org