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National Sea Scout Flagship Competition |
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National Sea Scout Flagship Competition |
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Boat Owners Association of The United
States awarded Sea Scout Ship 41, Indomitable, of Bay Village, OH,
its 2008 Sea Scout Flagship Award at the annual meeting of the Boy
Scouts of America (BSA) held today in San Diego, CA. The award honors
the top performing Sea Scout unit in the nation, recognizing
excellence in program quality, youth achievement and adult commitment.
Like all Sea Scout units, Ship 41 uses boats, seamanship and nautical
>> skills to develop character and leadership qualities in young people,
>> both male and female. Their fleet includes a 35-foot ketch, Mariner,
>> home ported at Spitzer Lakeside Marina in Lorain, OH, and a 27-foot
>> powerboat, Irish Wake. The Scouts also sail a fleet of Laser and FJ
>> sailboats provided by the Bay Boat Club.
In 2007 the Ship and its crew of 17 Sea Scouts helped with the
>> formation of three other new Sea Scout Ships in Ohio, bringing the
>> total to eight in the Cleveland area. It also logged 36 days of
>> on-water activities and a weeklong Lake Erie cruise. The scouts
>> performed the flag ceremony and played the national anthems of the
>> U.S. as well as Canada and Russia during the 2006 Cleveland Tall
>> Ships Festival. With help from a grant from a local VFW post, the
>> Ship also designed a "Combat Veteran" pin for returning troops.
Ship 41 Indomitable is sponsored by Bay Sea Scouts, Inc. in Bay
Village, Ohio.
Boat Owners Association of The United States awarded Sea Scout Ship 1942, Dragonlady, of Arlington, VA, with the 2007 Sea Scout Flagship Award at the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Annual Meeting held today in Atlanta, GA. The Award honors the top performing Sea Scout unit in the nation.
“We are particularly proud of this year’s winner since Ship 1942 is our ‘hometown’ Ship,” said BoatU.S. Assistant Vice President Ryck Lydecker, who presented the award to Andrew Scheuermann, 18, the Ship’s boatswain (youth leader), and Sea Scout Skipper Tom Ballew.
The award recognizes excellence in program quality, youth achievement and adult commitment. The Ship and its crew of Sea Scouts compiled an impressive record of accomplishments last year, logging 54 days of on-water activities, including 21 days of overnight cruises and a week-long Chesapeake Bay cruise. In the past two years, the Ship has produced six Quartermaster Sea Scouts, the highest rank achievable.
Like all Sea Scout units, Ship 1942 uses boats, seamanship and nautical skills to develop character and leadership qualities in young people, both male and female. With 46 youth active in the program, Ship 1942 needs to keep a whole fleet of vessels available for training, racing and fun. The fleet ranges from day sailers and small cruising boats kept nearby on the Potomac River to five cruising sloops from 27 to 39 feet on the Chesapeake Bay at Solomons Island, MD.
Regular activities range from formal training in boating handling, rules of the road and safety drills to boat maintenance, electronics and engine repair, with a good measure of fun thrown in.
Ship 1942 Dragonlady is sponsored by St. George’s Episcopal Church in Arlington.
Fresh from an impressive finish in the legendary Lexus Newport-to-Ensenada race, a crew of California-based Sea Scouts traveled across the country in May to accept the BoatU.S. National Sea Scout Flagship Award for 2006. The nation’s largest recreational boating organization honored Sea Scout Ship 711, Del Mar, of Newport Beach as the top performing Sea Scout unit in the country at the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Annual Meeting held today in Washington, DC.
BoatU.S. Chairman and Founder Richard Schwartz presented the Flagship Award trophy to the delegation headed by the Ship’s youth leader, Boatswain David George, 18; Skipper Mike Stewart; and other Sea Scouts and adults. The award recognizes excellence in program quality, youth achievement and adult commitment. Like all Sea Scout units, Ship 711 uses boats, seamanship and nautical skills to develop character and leadership qualities in young people.
The Ship and its two dozen Sea Scouts, aged 14 to 20, compiled an impressive record of accomplishments with 36 days of on-the-water activities, including 22 days of extended cruising last year. Regular activities range from formal training in boating handling, rules of the road and safety drills to boat maintenance, electronics and engine repair, with a good measure of fun thrown in.
Ship 711 calls the BSA’s Newport Sea Base homeport and its principal vessel for training and cruising is a Columbia 43 sloop, named Del Mar. The Ship also sails on Scout Spirit, a 77-ft. Reichel/Pugh maxi ocean racer, which the Sea Scouts recently sailed to a second-in-class finish in the Newport-to-Ensenada race. Ship 711 is sponsored by the Balboa Power Squadron.
This is the fifth year for the Flagship Award, originated by BoatU.S. in 2002 to mark the 90 th anniversary of Sea Scouting – a co-ed program for young adults age 14-20 with over 7,000 youth participating in 550 Ships nationwide. A perpetual trophy bearing the names of the annual winning Ship resides at the BSA National Scouting Museum in Irving, TX. For more information, contact: SeaScouts@BoatUS.com
BoatU.S. – Boat Owners Association of The United States – is the nation’s leading advocate for recreational boaters providing its 650,000 members with a wide array of consumer services including a group-rate marine insurance program that insures nearly a quarter million boats; the largest fleet of more than 500 towing assistance vessels; discounts on fuel, slips, and repairs at over 825 Cooperating Marinas; boat financing; and a subscription to BoatU.S. Magazine, the most widely read boating publication in the U.S. For membership information visit http://www.BoatUS.com or call 800-395-2628.
While West Virginia's Monongahela River is pretty far from the sea, a crew of Sea Scouts from Westover, WV still had what it takes to win the BoatU.S. National Sea Scout Flagship Award for 2005.
Eight members of the crew, two adults and six youth, traveled to Dallas, TX to accept the Flagship trophy May 27 at the Boy Scouts of America Annual Meeting. Record-breaking around-the-world sailor and aviator and BSA Venturing Committee Chair Steve Fossett presented the Flagship Award on behalf of BoatU.S. along with Charles Holmes, director of BSA's Venturing Division. This is the fourth year for the Flagship Award, originated by BoatU.S. in 2002 to mark the 90th anniversary of Sea Scouting and the first time given to a non-coastal Ship.
In honor of the achievement, the city council of Star City, WV, the "summer port" where the Sea Scouts keep their Chris Craft, proclaimed the week of May 23 "Arcturus Week."
The Flagship trophy will be displayed at the city hall for a month and after that, the Ship's sponsoring organization, Westover United Methodist Church, will be its home. A perpetual trophy bearing the names of annual winners resides at the BSA National Scouting Museum in Irving, TX.
Sea Scout Ship 46, Arcturus, of Westover, WV, near Morgantown, ranked tops in the nation for its excellence in program quality, youth achievement and adult commitment. Like all Sea Scout units, Ship 46 uses boats, seamanship and nautical skills to develop character and leadership qualities in young people.
The Ship, with 20 male and female Scouts, aged 14 to 20, made attaining the Flagship Award its mission for all of 2004. In the process the Ship complied an impressive record of accomplishments, including 47 days of on-water activities. These ranged from formal training in boating handling, rules of the road and safety drills to boat maintenance, electronics and engine repair with a good measure of fun thrown in, like water skiing and tubing.
In addition to operating its 36-foot Chris Craft Cavalier on the river and sailing small boats on nearby lakes, Ship 46 doesn't let the inland location keep its Scouts off the high seas. Last year, the young people organized a two-week bare boat charter in the British Virgin Islands aboard a Beneteau 50 sloop.
Sea Scouting is a co-ed program for young adults age 14-20 and nearly 7,000 youth participate in 550 Ships nationwide. For more information, contact: info@seascout.org
Now's the time to take stock of your Ship's program and document your accomplishments because your Ship could be the winner the 2005 BoatU.S. Sea Scout National Flagship Award.
BoatU.S., the nation's largest recreational boating organization, has instituted the annual Sea Scout National Flagship Award. The 2004 honors went to Sea Scout Ship Jolly Roger, (Ship 24) of Houston, Texas for running an active, outstanding program during 2003.
So, does your Ship have what it takes to earn this year's BoatU.S. National Sea Scout Flagship Award? There's only one way to find out. For application details and the evaluation criteria, go to http://www.seascout.org/ships/flagships.html. There you will find a checklist of accomplishments that put a Ship in the running. If you feel that your Ship qualifies, put together a compelling package of information that tells this year's judges why your Ship deserves this prestigious honor.
Your application package should be a written narrative supplemented by other materials as you see fit. So be comprehensive, yet concise - and be creative. But be quick about it, too; the deadline for entries to be received at BSA Venturing Division is March 15.
Redwood City on San Francisco Bay is home to a lot of maritime heritage and this year it added a new honor as the port city’s Sea Scout Ship 33, Gryphon, was awarded the BoatU.S. Sea Scout National Flagship Award for 2003.
A delegation from the Ship, including Skipper Mike Marzano, the adult leader, traveled to Philadelphia to accept the specially designed trophy at the Boy Scouts of America National Annual Meeting, May 29. BoatU.S. created the award last year to mark the 90th anniversary of Sea Scouting. It recognizes excellence in program quality, youth achievement and adult commitment. Gryphon’s name will be added to a perpetual trophy housed in the BSA National Museum in Irving, TX.
Sea Scouts in SSS Gryphon, sponsored by Redwood City Elks Lodge 1991, conducted 40 days of on-the-water activities, and its crewmembers contributed more the 400 hours of community service while also finding the time to participate in 10 regional scouting events.
According to Boatswain Jason Lawrence, the Ship’s youth leader, the 19 crewmembers have earned 33 awards in the last 18 months including four Quartermasters, the Eagle equivalent for Sea Scouting. The Ship qualified to send a sailing team to compete in the BoatU.S. Sea Scout Cup and the William I. Koch International Sea Scout Sailing Championship held concurrently in Chicago last June. The crew also performs all maintenance and repair on the 65-foot motor vessel they use on San Francisco Bay.
“These activities help each of the crewmembers learn teamwork and self-suf-ficiency, and increase their self-esteem,” said Marzano. “Our ability to earn such a national honor is due to an exceptional group of young adults who are dedicated to this program and to each other.”
Sea Scouting is a co-ed program for youth age 14-20 that uses boats, seamanship and nautical skills to develop character and leadership qualities in young people. Nearly 7,000 youth participate in Sea Scouting as members of 550 Ships nationwide. For more information, contact: SeaScouts@BoatUS.com.
A Houston Sea Scout group has won the first BoatU.S. National Flagship Award. It's a huge accomplishment, making the group the first among equals nationwide. Adult leaders say the credit belongs to the kids.
Sea Scout Ship 502, named Invincible, received the award, created in honor of the 90th anniversary of Sea Scouting, last month at the Boy Scouts of America National Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The award recognizes excellence in program quality, youth achievement, and adult commitment.
Sea Scout Ship 502 is sponsored by Foundry United Methodist Church of Houston. It conducted 79 days of on-the-water activities in 2001, one of a number of criteria used in judging the nationalwide competition among Sea Scout Ships.
"Our success is due first and foremost to the incredible group of young people who have immersed themselves in the culture of the sea and in the rewards of Sea Scouting," said Mike Walker, skipper of Ship 502. About 20 youths are members. "We have outstanding young people and we do alot of fun things," Walker said.
He noted that for the past five years, S.S.S. Invincible has averaged just over 1000 hours annually in Sea Scouting activities, "hitting our peak in 1999 when we logged 1,092 hours. For 2001, all records were shattered because our program recorded some 1,361 hours."
As we spoke Ship 502 was getting ready to take three boats -- a C&C 33, a Catalina 30, and a Cal29, on an eight-day trip to Port Aransas and back.
Walker, who himself was a Sea Scout in the 1950s and who has been skipper of Ship 502 for 13 years,,,,,,, has some good words for the adult advisors. He called them "a wonderful group of 15 incredibly dedicated, talented, and well-trained advisors who collectively, have many, many years of Scouting and Sea Scouting experience and who also believe in the values we promote.. This massive, labor-intensive program doesn't succeed without dedicated adults who share the load."
BoatU.S. deserves gratitude for sponsoring the award, initiated in 1912, discontinued in 1947, and re-established this year. Richard Schwartz, BoatU.S. chairman and founder, cheerfully acknowledges some self-interest as well.
"Today's Sea Scouts will likely be tomorrow's recreational boaters and we are delighted to recognize Ship 502 for its outstanding program achievements, both on the water and in the community," Schwartz said. Sea Scouts include some future members of his organization and more customers for its retail stores across the country.
Schwartz had some priase for Ship 502's leaders too. "This award recognizes the dedicated adult boaters who support Ship 502 as much it is honors the Sea Scouts themselves," he noted.
The year 2002 marked the 90th anniversary of BSA's Sea Scout program. To help celebrate Sea Scouting's 90th birthday, BoatU.S., the Boat Owners Association of The United States, reinstated the National Sea Scout Flagship Competition. This annual award, now sponsored by the nation's largest recreational boating organization, recognizes the top Sea Scout Ship in the country for excellence in program quality, youth achievement, and adult commitment.
Flagship recognition is a trophy awarded to the Ship and its Chartered Organization, as well as individual mementos of the achievement for each Sea Scout member of the Ship. Additionally the Ship name is added to a perpetual Sea Scout Flagship plaque to be kept on display at BoatU.S. national headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia near our nation's Capital.
The attached Sea Scout Ship Achievement Scoresheet will provide the standard against which all Sea Scout Ships will be measured. Any Ship meeting the criteria for National Standard Ship is recognized by affixing 4 stars on their Ship flag. These stars are ordered thru normal unit flag ordering procedures.
The form from any Ship that achieves National Standard Ship must be forwarded to the National Venturing Division office by March 15th. Forms from these Ships will be used to select a National Sea Scout Flagship. This is an outstanding opportunity for you to spotlight the achievements of your best Sea Scout Ships.
 to download a copy of the National Flagship Competition application packet. to download a copy of the National Flagship Competition press release.
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| 1929 | Old Ironsides, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1930 | Lief Ericson, Birmingham, Alabama |
| 1931 | Kansan, Topeka, Kansas |
| 1932 | Frederick Harris, Springfield, Massachusetts |
| 1933 | Kansan, Topeka, Kansas |
| 1934 | Ranger, Portland, Oregon |
| 1935 | Tarpon, Great Neck, Long Island, New York |
| 1936 | Columbia, Portland, Oregon Kansan, Topeka, Kansas named Honorary Flagship |
| 1937 | Polaris, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1938 | Sea Hawk, Berkeley, California |
| 1939 | Davy Jones, Greensboro, North Carolina |
| 1940 | Marblehead, Salem, Massachusetts |
| 1941 | Sea Lion, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1942 | Flying Dutchman, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1943 | Chadwick, Enid, Oklahoma |
| 1944 | unknown |
| 1945 | Alamitos, Long Beach, California |
| 1946 | Polaris, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 2002 | Invincible, Houston, Texas |
| 2003 | Gryphon, Redwood City, California |
| 2004 | Jolly Roger, Houston, Texas |
| 2005 | Arcturus, Westover, West Virginia |
| 2006 | Del Mar, Newport Beach, California |
| 2007 | Dragonlady, Arlington, Virginia |
| 2008 | Indomitable Bay Village, Ohio |
for information about the history of National Flagships.
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