Posts from — December 2011

As a community citizen OCSC SAILING made donations to the following organizations during 2011:

• A Home Within
• Ailey Camp Sailing Fieldtrip
• Alameda County Community Food Bank
• Albany Middle School
• Ambassadors of Hope and Opportunity
• American Red Cross Japan relief
• Aveda Silent
• BeatSarcoma
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area
• buildOn
• Call of the Sea
• Children Cancer
• City of Dreams
• CURE Epilepsy
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Decision Education Foundation
• Earth Island Institute
• East Bay SPCA
• Engineers without Borders – SFP
• Financial Women’s Association
• FTI Consulting Catamaran Bay Sail
• GGYC Youth Sailing Foundation
• Global Exchange Planning Retreat
• Glow Foundation
• Golden Gate Audubon
• Hillcrest School
• KQED
• Leukemia and Lymphoma Society/TIT
• Lifehouse Agency
• Okizu – Art Inspiring Hope
• Oxfam
• PBWC Expo Hall
• Rebuilding Together San Francisco
• Roosevelt school
• Sailing the Bay
• San Francisco Baykeeper
• San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
• Save Mount Diablo
• Save the Bay
• Shotgun Players
• The Athenian School
• The Berkeley Chess School
• Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation
• Treasure Island Sailing Center
• West San Jose Kiwanis
• WildAid Facilities Rental
• Williams Elementary School
• Women’s Earth Alliance
• Women’s Sailing Seminar
• YMCA
• Youth Engagement Advocacy Housing
• Youth Enrichment Strategies

We look forward being part of your life in 2012 again!

-OCSC

Published by International Lifestyle Magazine.

We just got another great write up in International Lifestyle Magazine. You can read the article by clicking on the images below but we recommend checking out their website. It’s quiet beautiful and reads like a real newspaper!

Just click here and we’ll direct you to the right spot.

Have fun!

Have you ever tried to describe why you love sailing to a non-sailor? To convey the joy and exhilaration of moving across the water powered only by the wind? Of being completely in the moment, balanced between wind, waves and current?

Anthony Sandberg, President OCSC Sailing

By telling the story of Bay sailing, you share our world of adventure, freedom, and self-discovery with a future generation of sailors.

Help share our mutual passion for sailing by joining me and SailSFBay in our support of acclaimed filmmaker Ron Blatman’s upcoming project, Sailing the Bay. Blatman’s highly-rated PBS documentary Saving the Bay won four regional Emmy Awards, and very effectively spread awareness about the rich history and sustained health of our San Francisco Bay. The same magic Blatman and his team conjured to create Saving the Bay will now produce Sailing the Bay — a one-hour film that will debut on KQED just ahead of the America’s Cup in Spring 2013.

Our immediate goal is to raise $50,000 in seed money for the project. All we need is for sailing enthusiasts like you to show support with a tax-deductible donation of any size – $10, $25, $50 or more. It’s important to show potential big donors that the sailing community is behind this project, and dedicated to nurturing our sport.

I invite you to join me, and the sailing community to which you belong, in sharing the story of Bay sailing with a wide audience. Please click here Sailing the Bay and make a year-end, tax-deductible gift that will produce huge returns for the next generation of sailors.

Sincerely,

Learn more about the film at sailingthebay.org

Originally published in the New York Daily Tribune.
February 18, 1857

In 1857, Mary Patten was 19. As Neptune’s Car, the extreme Clipper ship she was aboard, approached Cape Horn, her husband collapsed, deathly ill.

Her husband was the captain, and no one else aboard could navigate. Mary Patten took command of Neptune’s Car and safely sailed her around the Horn to San Francisco.

Sailor’s wife, navigator, captain, and heroine…and she was four months pregnant at the time…

A gripping and true story chronicling one of the first American Women Sailors.

Among the noble band of women who, by their heroic bearing, under great trial and suffering, have won for themselves imperishable fame, Mary A. Patten may claim a prominent position. Mrs. Patten is a native of Boston, and but 20 years of age. Her husband, Capt. Joshua A. Patten, sailed from this port in July last, for San Francisco, as commander of the clipper ship Neptune’s Car, of Foster and Nickerson’s line, and it was during this voyage that his wife rendered herself so distinguished. Capt. Patten is well known in this port, and at the eastward, as a young and rising seaman; and the vessels under his command have made some of the swiftest passages on record. He took command of the Neptune’s Car about two years ago, and made his first voyage in her to San Francisco in 90 days. On that occasion Mrs. Patten accompanied him to San Francisco, China, London, and back to New York. His next voyage was that last year to San Francisco, in which his wife again accompanied him. The Neptune’s Car left port at the same time with the clippers Romance of the Seas, Intrepid, and two others, the names of which we do not remember. As usual with commanders in the Pacific trade, Capt. Patten wished to get his ship into port ahead of his rivals. He soon found, however, that his first mate slept during half his watch on the quarter deck, while he kept the ship under reefed courses, and after repeated remonstrance had proved unavailing he found it necessary to remove him. After that he undertook to discharge the mate’s duties as well as his own, and in consequence of fatigue was taken sick, while passing through the Straits of Lemaire, around the Horn, and in a short time brain fever developed itself.

From that time, up to the period of her arrival at San Francisco, Mrs. Patten was both nurse and navigator. When her husband was taken sick the ship was given in charge of the second mate. He, however, was but an indifferent navigator, and although he knew how to take an observation, he could not work up the reckoning. Mrs. Patten, who, on her previous voyage, had studied navigation as a pastime, now took observations, worked up the reckoning by chronometer time, laid the ship’s courses, and performed most of the other duties of the captain of the ship. During this time her husband was delirious with the fever, and she shaved his head, and devised every means in her power to soothe and restore him. To this end, she studied medicine to know how to treat his case intelligently, and in course of time succeeded in carrying him alive through the crisis of his complaint.

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