About Us
Prepared. For Life.
Thank you for asking about Sea Scout Ship 1176.
Sea Scouts is a program of Scouting America (formerly called Boy Scouts of America, BSA) for youth 14-20. The focus is on boating and water activities, leadership training, and service. You can see a lot more information at https://seascout.org
The term “ship” is a Sea Scout organizational unit like “troop” is an organizational unit of Scouts. Ship as used in Sea Scouts does not refer to a boat. In Sea Scouts, we go out on boats, vessels, canoes, etc. A Sea Scout Ship’s adult leader is a Skipper and assistant adult leaders are called Mates. The youth crew has a senior leader called a Boatswain, with other youth positions of Boatswain Mate, Yeoman, Storekeeper, Purser, Specialist, Chaplain’s Assistant, etc. The Sea Scout youth ranks are Apprentice, Ordinary, Able, and Quartermaster. Youth can also earn the Eagle Scout rank as a Sea Scout.
Ship 1176 concentrates on sailing. We sail a 30-foot Catalina sloop out of Baltimore on the Patapsco River and Chesapeake Bay and a 23-foot Laguna sloop on the Potomac. We will also have adventures on other vessels on the water (including tall ships, historic ships, military ships, canoes, kayaks, and small sailboats) and other activities in the water (swimming and SCUBA) or by the water (hiking and camping). Our calendar for this year is attached. We do not have weekly meetings. We do have one, two, or three activities a month. Visit us at https://www.ship1176.com
We have a Sea Scout uniform which is dark navy (as you can see on the seascout.org website). For boating activities, we wear appropriate sailing or boating clothes and not uniforms.
We do not have dues or fund raising activities. We pay individually for activity costs (pay as you go).
Transportation to actives is by parent and leader carpooling. We welcome parent’s participation in our activities.
Youth and adults are welcome to join our ship. Registration is done online at https://my.scouting.org/VES/OnlineReg/1.0.0/?tu=UF-MB-082saa1176
Youth may register as a new Scout with no prior scouting experience, or may transfer membership from another Scout unit to the Ship, or may Dual Register as a Sea Scout in addition to their membership in another Scout unit. Dual registration does not cost anything as their registration is already paid in their primary Scout unit. Dual registration provides the greatest opportunity to do both Sea Scout and Scouting activities and earn awards and ranks of both programs. The annual cost for a new registration for youth is $185 and for adults it is $65 which can be paid on the online registration website.
We are sponsored by American Legion Post 176 in Springfield, Virginia.
If you have any further, you are welcome to contact Skipper Petty at ppetty1@cox.net
