Sea Scouts

Youth 14-20 Years of Age

For over 100 years Sea Scouting has promoted better citizenship, improved members’ boating skills through instruction and practice in water safety, boating skills, outdoor, social, service experiences, and knowledge of our maritime heritage.

Sea Scout Ranks

Apprentice

Apprentice Sea Scouts learn the fundamentals of seamanship, water safety, ship organization, and Scouting ideals. The focus is on building basic maritime skills, teamwork, and participation through service and hands-on learning.

Ordinary

Ordinary rank expands a Sea Scout’s boating knowledge with navigation, anchoring, communication, safety procedures, and overnight cruise experience. Scouts also begin taking on leadership responsibilities and helping strengthen their ship’s program.

Able

Able Sea Scouts develop advanced seamanship and leadership skills while teaching and mentoring others. This rank emphasizes lifesaving, maritime knowledge, environmental awareness, and leading within the ship.

Quartermaster

Quartermaster is the highest rank in Sea Scouts and represents mastery of leadership, service, and advanced maritime skills. Candidates lead major projects and cruises, teach others, and demonstrate the ability to command and support a ship at a high level.

What Do Sea Scouts Do?

Be Prepared.

Sea Scouts is youth led and adult mentored. You and your shipmates lead your Sea Scout program. Elected youth leaders plan and conduct the program, as adult leaders guide and support efforts to learn important leadership and life skills. As experience is gained, the opportunity will arise to contribute as leaders of the ship.

Sea Scouts are recognized and rewarded for the things you learn and do, earning valuable certiﬁcations in SCUBA, boating safety, lifesaving, and CPR, as well as advance in rank from Apprentice to Quartermaster. Each certiﬁcation and level of advancement marks their growth as a sailor and a leader.

How can you help?

The most important help that you, as a parent, can give your child is to work with them on their Sea Scouting requirements as they work toward their badge of rank. The Sea Scouting handbook is full of age-appropriate activities; some of them you do together at home. Ship meetings are designed for members to complete requirements that are required for them to earn their badge of rank.

Your role as a parent is the secret to a successful Sea Scouting program!

Sea Scouts operates through volunteer leadership. Volunteer leaders are an example of Scouting’s principle of service to others. By volunteering in Scouting, you are also giving your child or a youth and family the gift of your time. What could be more valuable? You will have an opportunity to be a positive influence in their life and in the lives of their friends.

Some Ways you Can Volunteer:

Skipper

Helps plan and carry out the Sea Scouting program with the help of the Ship committee. Assists the Boatswain (youth leader) run Ship meetings and attends the Ship committee meeting.