Scouting

Sea Scouts is part of the larger Scouting movement, focused on boating skills! For over 100 years Sea Scouting has promoted better citizenship and improved members’ boating skills through:

• Water safety instruction and practice
• Boating skills
• Outdoor, social, and service experiences
• Knowledge of maritime heritage

Sea Scouts can use any type of boat to develop their skills but over the past decade, they’ve had a growing emphasis on paddling skills. In 2021, they updated advancement requirements, expanding the paddling knowledge required of all Sea Scouts and creating the ability to achieve Quartermaster (the highest Sea Scout rank) using only canoes or kayaks.

ACA strongly supports Sea Scouting! We encourage our members to work with Sea Scouts, to help grow the next generation of paddlers. More information about Sea Scouting can be found one the Sea Scouts website.

Dive deeper into the Sea Scouts and ACA Partnership by reading the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

Over the years, ACA volunteers and staff are proud to have worked with the National Aquatics Taskforce of Scouting America on several projects to help youth to be safer, learn, and have fun out on the water:

• Revised the Canoeing Merit Badge
• Revised the  Whitewater Merit Badge
• Developed the Whitewater Rafting Award
• Developed the Kayaking Merit Badge
• Developed the Stand Up Paddleboarding Award (Flyer / PDF / Online)
• Sea Scout Partnership (MOU / Online)