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Creating a Seascout Programme - a Case Study

• Background information
• The Guides and Scouts of Finland released new
  programmes for all age groups a year ago
• The seascout programmes were also revisied
• The main target was on areas of personal growth

• Scope of this presentation
• We will limit the scope on guides and scouts and
  venture scouts
• The seascout programme for cubscouts is limited
  in its scope

EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 1 Analyses of current status

• Existing Material (on national level)
• programme for guides and scouts
• Safety regulations
• A number of courses

• Conclusions
• Very technical
• Does it further our objectives for personal
  growth and education and what are these
  objectives?

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Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 1 Analyses of current status
For whom are we making a programme?
9472 Guides and Scouts 112 Boats suited for
crusing 102 Troops Typical what type
country Small and big troops Seaside / Lakeside
177
304
222
98
23
201
410
708
325
687
351
3411
143
134
560
1657
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Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 2 Analyses age section objectives

• All age groups
• Safety comes first

• Guides and Scouts
• Teaching good seamanship
• Preparing for venture activities

• Venture Scouts
• Path to becoming a skipper

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Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 2 Analyses age section objectives

• Are the targets achieved as is
• Yes

• Guides and Scouts
• programme built on teaching skills for safe
  seamanship built on safety regulations
• programme provides a path to the venture scout
  programme

• Venture Scouts
• programme consists of courses aiming to teach
  skills required by a good scout skipper

EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 2 Analyses age section objectives
III-klass guide or scout
II-klass guide or scout
license for training waters
II-mate course
I-klass guide or scout
I-mate course
license for inner waters
skipper course
rescue course
license for open waters
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Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 3 Analyses of personal growth objectives
Conclusion Personal growth is achieved by the
implementing the basic values and principals for
scouting
Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to respect
other human beings to help and serve others to
recognize her/his responsibility and duties to
love and protect nature to be faithful and
reliable to build friendship across borders to
seek for the truth in life
Promise I will love my God and my neighbour, my
native country and mankind by fulfilling the
Guide and Scout ideals in my life.
Elements of Scouting Experiences leadership
young people leading young people the scout
ideals in everyday life working in a group
adventure learning by doing activities in
nature deciding together common programmes
Guide/Scout motto Be prepared!

• Are the targets achieved as is?
• Only partially

EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 3 Analyses of personal growth objectives
What does the current programme offer?
A youth group in a boat learning seamanship
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Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 3 Analyses of personal growth objectives
Is this scouting (furthering personal growth)?
Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to respect
other human beings to help and serve others to
recognize her/his responsibility and duties to
love and protect nature to be faithful and
reliable to build friendship across borders to
seek for the truth in life
Promise I will love my God and my neighbour, my
native country and mankind by fulfilling the
Guide and Scout ideals in my life.
Elements of Scouting Experiences leadership
young people leading young people the scout
ideals in everyday life working in a group
adventure learning by doing activities in
nature deciding together common programmes
Guide/Scout motto Be prepared!
EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 4 Development of personal growth objectives

• Is there more to seascouting?
• Everybody says yes
• Statistics say yes
• A look on the field says yes
• Conflict Our material says no
• Problems
• How do we define seascouting - boating?
• Image problem towards other guides and scouts -
  are they really guides and scouts?
• The programme does not support all activities in
  the troops since there is more to seascouting
  than just boating
• Hard to start new seascout troops
• Some troops function well other dont
• Question How can we include the scout values
  found in well functioning troops into our
  seascout programme?

EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 4 Development of personal growth objectives
We have to broaden our views

• Environmental Education

• Serving our society

• Nautical history

• Nautical culture

• Seascout traditions

• Nautical traditions

• Seascout culture

• International activities

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Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 4 Development of personal growth objectives
Environmental Education
Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to respect
other human beings to help and serve others to
recognize her/his responsibility and duties to
love and protect nature to be faithful and
reliable to build friendship across borders to
seek for the truth in life

• Nodu
• Blueflag
• Pidä saaristo siistinä
• (Keep the archipelago clean)

Community Service

• Co-operation with authorities
• Nodu
• SAR
• Oil disaster help
• Gathering waste
• Various observations
• Public utility projects
• Fund raising
• Actions
• Providing education
• Seaman church

Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to respect
other human beings to help and serve others to
recognize her/his responsibility and duties to
love and protect nature to be faithful and
reliable to build friendship across borders to
seek for the truth in life
EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 4 Development of personal growth objectives
Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to respect
other human beings to help and serve others to
recognize her/his responsibility and duties to
love and protect nature to be faithful and
reliable to build friendship across borders to
seek for the truth in life
Nautical History

• Monuments and buildings
• Museums
• National parks
• Villages, churches, lighthouses
• Sail
• Channels etc.

Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to respect
other human beings to help and serve others to
recognize her/his responsibility and duties to
love and protect nature to be faithful and
reliable to build friendship across borders to
seek for the truth in life
Nautical Tradition

• Greetings
• Coming ashore
• Hoisting the anchor or sails
• Customs and habits

Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to respect
other human beings to help and serve others to
recognize her/his responsibility and duties to
love and protect nature to be faithful and
reliable to build friendship across borders to
seek for the truth in life
Nautical Culture

• Fishers
• Authorities
• Songs
• Food
• Art
• Rope work etc.

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Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 4 Development of personal growth objectives
Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to respect
other human beings to help and serve others to
recognize her/his responsibility and duties to
love and protect nature to be faithful and
reliable to build friendship across borders to
seek for the truth in life
Seascout Traditions

• Camp traditions
• Sailingtraditions
• Other traditions
• Happenings

Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to help
and serve others to recognize her/his
responsibility and duties to love and protect
nature to be faithful and reliable to build
friendship across borders to seek for the truth
in life
Seascout Culture

• Songs
• Craftmanship
• Customs and habbits

Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to respect
other human beings to help and serve others to
recognize her/his responsibility and duties to
love and protect nature to be faithful and
reliable to build friendship across borders to
seek for the truth in life
International Activities

• Common sailing
• Camps
• Meetings in harbors
• Contact networks

EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 4 Development of personal growth objectives
Can we improve the programme by expanding it?
Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to respect
other human beings to help and serve others to
recognize her/his responsibility and duties to
love and protect nature to be faithful and
reliable to build friendship across borders to
seek for the truth in life
Promise I will love my God and my neighbour, my
native country and mankind by fulfilling the
Guide and Scout ideals in my life.
Elements of Scouting Experiences leadership
young people leading young people the scout
ideals in everyday life working in a group
adventure learning by doing activities in
nature deciding together common programmes
Guide/Scout motto Be prepared!
EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 4 Development of personal growth objectives
Can we improve the programme by expanding it?
Ideals The ideal of a Guide and Scout is to
develop her/himself as a human being to respect
other human beings to help and serve others to
recognize her/his responsibility and duties to
love and protect nature to be faithful and
reliable to build friendship across borders to
seek for the truth in life
Promise I will love my God and my neighbour, my
native country and mankind by fulfilling the
Guide and Scout ideals in my life.
Elements of Scouting Experiences leadership
young people leading young people the scout
ideals in everyday life working in a group
adventure learning by doing activities in
nature deciding together common programmes
Guide/Scout motto Be prepared!
EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 5 The new programme

• What did we do?
• Emphasis on activities
• Sea part of basic programme still technical with
  some non-technical elements
• Common part with land guides and scouts
• Specialty badges (optional) include the broader
  view to seascouting

• Why this approach?
• Preliminary target to guarantee safety
  educational targets, which requires a lot of
  efforts and time
• Broader scope very dependent on environment and
  resources, has to be optional (you cant tell
  everybody to visit a lighthouse)

EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 5 The new programme
III-class

• I can swim 200m, use a safety jacket and harness,
  and I get to know the common safety regulations
  for swimmers and seafarers
• In know what to do if I fall into the sea and I
  participate in MOB maneuver
• I can whipp and coil
• I can row and I know the names of the parts in a
  rowing boat
• I know the nautical markers
• I know the terms nautical mile and knot and I can
  measure distances from a nautical chart
• I know the symbols used on nautical charts
• I know the distress signals used on the sea
• I know the basic use and placement of the safety
  equipment on our troops boat(s)
• I know how to stop the engine on our troops
  boat(s) / set the drive on free
• I know how to use the toilet onboard
• I participate in hoisting sails and take down and
  pack the sails
• I know how to use a life buoy and rescue line
• I know the special features that have to be
  considered on our troops boat(s)
• I know how to use the flag onboard
• I know five seafowls, fish, marine animals and
  plants
• I sing a scout song having a nautical theme

EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 5 The new programme
II-class

• I sail at night
• I know how to use the pentry on our troops
  boat(s)
• I know how to act if there is a fire onboard and
  train for such situations
• I can act as a crew member
• I can measure directions from a nautical chart
• I know the graduation of a compass and I know
  what variation, deviation and drift is
• I know the coordinate system
• I know how to write in a log book
• I know the navigation rules and maneuver a boat
  according to them
• I know the most common vocabulary used onboard
• I take a note of the weather forecast for
  seafarers and know the broadcasting times
• I know how to reef the main sail
• I know how to operate the engine on our troops
  boat(s)
• I know the parts in a rig
• I know the names and times of the watches and I
  can LYÖDÄ LASIA
• Im aquatinted with the radio equipment onboard
  and I can send a distress message
• I participate in the spring or autumn maintenance
  of our troops boat(s)
• I know how to dispose waste in an environmentally
  friendly way onboard and I know how different
  types of waste affect nature
• I go to a place having importance for nautical
  history

EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 5 The new programme
I-class

• I can do the basic service on our troops boat(s)
  engine
• I participate in the maintenance of sails,
  winches and the rig
• I make a sketch over an anchor place or harbor
• I perform independently a task involved in the
  spring or autumn maintenance and I know which
  tasks are required for normal maintenance
• I know the environmental affect of maintenance
  work
• I can maneuver a boat under a MOB rehearsal
• I can anchor in a boat or nature harbor and I
  know which factors affect the grip of an anchor
• I can prepare the boat for sailing and harbor
• I can approximate the wind strength and make a
  weather forecast based on clouds and the
  movements of weather fronts
• I know how what to do in emergency situations and
  I master to use of safety equipment onboard of my
  troops boat(s)
• I know the most common day, sound, light and
  oneflag signals
• I can maneuver a boat to and from an anchor place
  or harbor
• I know which actions have to be taken when a
  storm is coming up on sea
• I know the Guides and Scouts of Finlands safety
  regulations for seascouting
• I know how to determine the position
• I participate in a sail trip lasting several days
• I get aquatinted with the condition of the Baltic
  sea or a lake and I participate in observing the
  condition
• I participate in navigating in the dark

EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step 5 The new programme
Specialty badges having a seascout element
Marine environment Emergency firstaid Historian Si
gnaling Rescue Service Historian
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Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland
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Step N Where to go next?

• Updating manuals on the new programme
• Emphasis on blue-green scouting
• 75 of the guides and scouts in Finland have
  water activities
• Best way to promote seascouting
• Tasks
• - Developing canoeing activities
• - ABC to seascouting
• - Developing material to water activities

EuroSea 2003, S. Jacinto - Portugal Jukka
Kostiainen Seascout Instructor Guides and Scouts
of Finland