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OWNERSHIP & TRAVEL
Turtle lighting at OBC.
A Resort, a Family, and a Promise of Forced Vacation
When Patrick and his wife, Ida, first heard about Outrigger Beach Club through that mailing in early 1987, he was deep in the rhythm of automotive design- the kind
Jay and his son Bryant at his first visit to OBC( Jay is Patrick Son). of driven professional who would routinely skip vacations, take the pay instead, and keep moving. Their first child, Nikki, was just 3 years old, and while Ida was pregnant with their son, Jay, they made their sales appointment. They sat through the presentation. And on April 1st, 1987, they bought two weeks- Thanksgiving week and the one that followed.
The resort, a single curved building on the Atlantic coast in Ormond Beach, just north of Daytona, was designed so that every room faces the ocean. From the beginning, it suited them. One bedroom plus space to close off a sleeping area for the kids, a hot tub, a pool, shuffleboard, and the Atlantic right outside the window.
They drove to Disney and Universal Studios. They explored Flagler Beach and the whole stretch of coast up toward St. Augustine. The kids did their homework at the snack bar. They built a life rhythm around a place.
“ You go year after year, and it stops being a resort,” Osterman says.“ It becomes your second home.”
There was even a harrowing moment near the water’ s edge- a high tide wave that knocked over the stroller with baby Jay inside and nearly pulled him and Nikki out to sea before Patrick and Ida sprinted into the surf and grabbed the handle. The family laughs about it now. At the time,
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