Sea Scouting inGermany

Karsten Müller

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Number of Sea Scouts: about 250

Number of local Sea Scout groups: 4 inside their associations

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Most common sea scout activities:

- Sailing trips on keel dinghies and yachts

- Sailing trips in Croatia, Denmark, England, Germany, Gibraltar, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Portugal

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Most common sea scout activities:

- Canoe trips (in France, Germany and Sweden)

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Most common sea scout activities:

- We do even land scout stuff: hiking by foot, by bike, camps

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Most important sea scout things young people learn in different ages:

- Cubs, age 7-11 years: sometimes they sail or row during a camp. No sailing trips.

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Most important sea scout things young people learn in different ages:

- Scouts, age 11-16 years: Learn to handle small boats, sailing (and sometimes) canoe trips, start to learn navigation at sea, at 14 years may become skippers of small boats.

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Most important sea scout things young people learn in different ages:

- Rovers, age 16+ years: Learn to be navigators and (later) skippers on yachts.

Sea Scout EVENTSin Germany

Events in local Sea Scout groups:

- sailing trips, camps, hikes by foot and by bike

Events in district:

- Skipper trainings for small boats and yachts

National Sea Scout events:

- No national sea scout events

Sea Scout TRAINING for scouts / leaders in Germany

- Life saving on the water and first aid:minimum age 14y, organized by group and DLRG (German Lifesaving Society) every two or three years

Sea Scout TRAINING for scouts / leaders in Germany

- license course for inshore sailing on small boats (Sportbootführerschein Binnen unter Segel) minimum age 14y, organized by group every three years

- license course for offshore sailing and motoring (Sportbootführerschein See unter Segel und Motor) minimum age 16y, organized by group every three years

- license course for offshore sailing on yachts (Sportküstenschifferschein) minimum age 18y, organized by group and sailing school when necessary

- radio license course for offshore and inshore sailingminimum age 18y, organized by Cologne university

- security at sea course – how to deal with an accident,minimum age 18y, organized by Cruiser Yacht Club Germany (Kreuzer Yacht Club Deutschland)

Sea Scout TRAINING for scouts / leaders in Germany

Sea Scout ORGANIZATION in Germany

National level: • None

In districts:• None

In the group:• Commisioner for

sailing and training

• A team developing standards

Sea Scout SAFETY Germany

How do you take care of safety in Sea Scouting?• State law for swimming and watersports is our law (Schwimmerlass) for

example no swimming in open waters without a „silver life guard“ around

• In scouting we prefer using life jackets (almost) all the time when sailing

Sea Scout PARTNERSHIPS Germany

German Yachstmen AssociationDeutscher Seglerverband

German Motor Yacht AssociationDeutscher Motoryachtverband

Universities of Cologne, Stuttgart, TuebingenUniversitäten zu Köln, Stuttgart, Tübingen

German Life Saving SocietyDeutsche Lebensrettungsgesellschaft

Cruiser Yacht Club GermanyKreuzer Yacht Club Deutschland

several Clubs of Traditional Sailing Shipsverschiedene Traditonssegler-Vereine

What kind of partnerships Sea Scouts have to non-scout organizations?

Sea Scout CHALLENGES Germany

What kind of challenges do we encounter in Sea Scouting?

• Lack of competent yacht skippers with time to sail.

• Our boats are so far away that they are not used very often.

• We are relatively alone.

Sea Scout SUCCESSin Germany

What kind of success do you have in Sea Scouting?

• Good level of (sailing) education.

• We grow up our own yacht skippers.

• Our scouts are proud to be a SEA scout.