What is Sea Scouting all about ?

• Sea Scouts are very similar to any other Scout; they have the same aim but place a special emphasis on water and maritime training within their activities to achieve that aim. Water activities can provide the adventure that youngsters are looking for. Boating encourages Scouts to work as a team, with the penalty of getting wet if they don't. Water activities are an area where skills and age do not necessarily correlate and provide an ideal opportunity for Scouts to teach each other.

  Sea Scouting has been a part of Scouting since the Movement started. The founder, Lord Baden-Powell, makes many references in "Scouting for Boys" to Sea Scouting, and to his adventures with his brother Warington, who, he relates was "both a sailor and a boy at heart". In his message to Scouts in "Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys", Warington Baden-Powell makes this important observation: "A Sea Scout must be a Scout; therefore I take it that you know the Scout Promise, Law and Regulations. Sea Scouting is simply a branch of Scouting"

• The principles of scouting :
                                                  Duty to God
                                                  Duty to others
                                                  Duty to self
  

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• Duty to God

Scouting is not a religious organisation.
The Movement does not align itself with any
particular religion. Scouting recognises that there

are diverse ways in which God shows himself to
mankind. It is possible for a young person to be
unsure of the existence of God and remain a
Member of the Association, but it is not possible for
an atheist to hold a warrant as a Leader. The
spiritual development which Scouting seeks for its
Members is encouraged by;

· developing personal discipline and training;

· being involved in co-operative activities;

· understanding the world about them;

· creating a more tolerant and caring society;

· discovering the need for prayer and worship, both

personal and shared.

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Method

Since its inception Scouting has set out to achieve its

Aim by:

1 requiring knowledge of, and adherence to, its

Promise and Law by its Members; working with

small groups of young people under adult

guidance;

2 encouraging young people to take an

increasing degree of responsibility for their own

activities;

3 using programmes which are appropriate to the

child grows up, and which are amended as

changes take place in society;

4 learning by doing, as far as possible out of

doors;

5 acquiring skills and knowledge, and forming

positive social and personal values.

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