Congrats! GULF HARBOUR RADIO

Ocean Cruising Club Award Winners

The OCC Award, which is open to all including nonmembers, recognises service to the ocean cruising community as a whole, is awarded to Patricia Dallas & David Sapiane of NZ.

Gulf Harbour Radio is a New Zealand licensed coast radio station run by Patricia Dallas and David Sapiane from Gulf Harbour near Auckland. Every season since 2012 they have supported international cruisers on their passages to and from NZ and the South Pacific with their daily SSB schedule.

They run their service voluntarily, provide local advice, weather analysis, and forecasting, and assist where people need support. They also live-stream their broadcast on YouTube so that friends and family can tune in to listen to the vessels checking in. They are wonderful people, incredibly generous, and very supportive of OCC members and other cruisers in the South Pacific. They are very worthy of being recognised for all their hard work.

This small but powerful GPS Tracker is custom designed from the ground up, with extra features to make your coastal and offshore tracking, data and communications easier than ever.

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Preparations are underway to deploy the YWAM KOHA again to Fiji. Our theme for this year is to “Go Again Better.” As a medical ship, we are keenly aware that we are only just getting started. If you’ve followed us for a while, you know it was a challenge to go the first time. It is a new challenge to go again. We are up for this challenge and want to be more effective and even more efficient at delivering holistic health outcomes for the beautiful people of Fiji.

We plan to increase our deployment time from three months to four months. This will allow us to add three additional outreaches–enabling us to serve 50% more people than we did last year. Planning meetings are happening with our key partners in Fiji. The Ministry of Health and Medical Services is excited for us to return and partner with them to deliver health outcomes in the maritime regions of their nation

Join Us in Empowering Health in the Pacific

If you are interested in serving with us in Fiji on one of the outreaches between June and October, please contact us here. We are especially looking for dentists and dental assistants, mariners (with the correct qualifications) and administrators to help run the clinics. When you register your interest, we will communicate more details with you as they become available.