Kauai Sea Scouts learn teamwork and seamanship on state voyage
Fifteen Kauai Sea Scouts stopped on Oahu during a two-week voyage, turning the 40-foot Decisive into a classroom for teamwork and seamanship.
Fifteen Kauai Sea Scouts stopped on Oahu Sunday during a two-week voyage across Hawaii, using the 40-foot Sea Scout Ship Decisive to practice the seamanship and shared decision-making that define the program. Each teen was assigned a job aboard the boat, and the crew’s work depended on every scout doing it well.
Sea Scouts is a youth-led, adult-mentored program of Scouting America, and on the water that structure carries real consequences. A missed task or poor decision can affect the whole boat, which is why the Kauai program has built its summer voyage around responsibility as much as sailing. For island families, that matters in a place where ocean travel, boating and water safety remain part of daily life.
Luca Des Marais said the trip’s lessons depend on the group staying connected. “A big part is community and working together and trusting each other. If you don’t all work together, then everything goes out of flow.”
The Kauai Sea Scouts say they have spent 15 years teaching local youth seamanship, leadership, friendship and citizenship, and describe themselves as the only Sea Scouts in Hawaii. The group’s website says several scouts who aged out of the program later moved into maritime careers, giving the voyage a direct link to work in boating, shipping and marine operations.
The same program was tested in rougher circumstances last summer, when a 10-day cruise was interrupted by a tsunami warning scare. That experience put the scouts’ confidence and abilities under pressure far beyond a typical youth outing, while reinforcing why supervised training at sea carries weight in Hawaii.
The group has also been expanding its public profile on land. In April, the Scouts showcased a donated 61-foot yacht at a weekend open house, and a Sea Scout open house and recruiting event was listed for April 25 in Kauai. Together, those efforts point to a program trying to keep its pipeline full while giving local teens a rare mix of discipline, navigation and trust aboard the Decisive.
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