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1st PORT JACKSON SEA SCOUT GROUP
1st PORT JACKSON SEA SCOUT GROUP
"ESTABLISHED 1920"REGISTERED NEW SOUTH WALES
HMAS PENGUIN
MIDDLE HEAD RD,
MOSMAN 2088
SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES,AUSTRALIA
MAIL ADDRESS POST BOX 14 MOSMAN 2088 NEW SOUTH WALES,AUSTRALIA
SEA SCOUT GROUP LEADER: SUE BIGHAM 02 99 497892
02 94 114088
FAX 02 94 114371
JOEY SEA SCOUTS MEET:
CUB SEA SCOUTS MEET: TUESDAY 7-00 TO 8-30 PM
SEA SCOUTS MEET: THURSDAY 7-00 TO 9-00 PM
VENTURE UNIT SEA SCOUTS MEET:
ROVER CREW SEA SCOUTS MEET:
SEA SCOUT GROUP PARENTS COMMITTEE MEET:
PARENTS COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON:
SECRETARY:
TREASURER:
HALL HIRE:
MAGAZINE AND PRESS COORDINATOR:
BOATS:
ONE FIRST BOAT CUTTER "COAST WATCH"
CANOES
HISTORY
ESTABLISHED REGISTERED 1920 BASED IN GROUNDS OF HMAS PENGUIN IN MIDDLE HEAD ROAD, MOSMAN GROUP HALL AND BOATSHED IS BESIDE WATERS EDGE SYDNEY HARBOUR
WE SAILED EX NAVAL CUTTER 38FEET CALLED "COAST WATCH" ON SATURDAY WHEN ALL THE YACHTS WERE OUT RACING OUR PATROL LEADERS WERE OLDER AND BIGGER THAN BOYS OF TODAY AND WHEN YOU WERE TOLD TO DO SOMETHING GOD HELP YOU IF YOU DID NOT MOVE. ON THE CUTTER AS THERE WAS TWO MASTS AND SAILS AND ALWAYS WATER TO BAIL AND WATER FIGHTS WERE COMMON PRACTICE WITH NAVAL CADETS WHO ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE PUSSAR SNOTTIES ON THE HARBOUR. CUTTERS AND WHALERS CAN TIP OVER AND THAT IS AN EXPERIENCE THAT YOU DONT WANT .ALSO THE CREW WAS NOT SEEN ABOVE THE GUNWALES PARTICULARLY ON CUTTERS THE ONLY BOYS TO BE SEEN WAS THE BOWMAN, FORWARD LOOKOUT AND THE HELMSMAN SO THEY HAD CLEAR UNINTERUPTED VIEW. CUTTERS ALSO WERE HEAVY WORK TO ROW USUAL SHIPS BOATS WERE STANDARD WHALERS 28 FT AND CUTTERS 32FT GOOD ONES WERE BUILT OF HOUN PINE THE NAVY HAD REGULAR ROWING COMPETITIONS AND COMPETITION WAS HECTIC ALL AUSTRALIAN CRUISERS HAD REGULAR CREWS FOR THEIR BOATS AND CAPTIANS EXPECTED THEIR BOAT CREWS TO WIN
REGULAR SEA SCOUT COMPETITION OF THE FAIRFAX FLAG 1934-35 AND THE LATER ENDEAVOUR FLAG 1935-36 -40 WHICH IS STILL IN OUR COLLECTION
HALL FIRST OPENED IN 20 OCTOBER 1956
REFURBISHED HALL OPENED ON 26 MARCH 2000 BY COMMANDER WYBERG OF HMAS PENGIUN BASE
UPCOMING SEA SCOUT EVENTS:
JAMBOREE 2007
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SEA SCOUTING 1907 - 2007
PLAN AN EVENT KNOW BE PREPARED TO CELEBRATE
WOODEN BOAT FEASTVAL HOBART FEB 9 - 12 - 2007
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OTHER SITES:
www.jacobseec.qld.edu.au/inf.htm
HMAS PENGUIN 02 99 60044 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SCOUTS AUSTRALIA SYDNEY 02 97 999244
www.anmm.gov.au
www.geocities.com/first-pi/
www.chirp.co.uk
www.seachurch.org
www.missiontoseafarers.org
www.seashepherd.org
www.australianwoodenboatfestival.com.au
SEA SCOUT REFERENCE BOOKS:
"SEA SCOUTS" ROBERT H.HOLE "GILCRAFT" No 11
"SEA SCOUT MANUAL" BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
"HOW TO SAIL" GARY JOBSON
"SEA SCOUTING" TOM BROWN
"SEAMANSHIP FOR SCOUTS" Lt STUART GARNETT
"THE PATROL SYSTEM" P.D.GOLDEN
"SABOT SAILING SIMPLFIED" MURRAY McLACHLAN
"POLLUTION BEGINS AT HOME" FRANK RYAN - STEPHEN RAY
"TO BE A LIGHTHOUSE OF SEA SCOUTING"
"NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION"
"TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE"
PJAC
SON
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