Euronaut Newsletter for European Sea Scouts Issue 33 • August 2012 Seminar. I'm happy to report that we are Inside this Issue also planning the new website for the • Greetings from the Odysseus Group European Sea Scout Network. The Chairman implementation timetable is uncertain, but • A New resident at Gilwell we hope to have a first version completed • 2012 William I Koch International Sea and online during Eurosea. Scout Cup Results • Randøya 2014 • Terror 2012 Something to keep in mind is that new • Two wheels – For going ahead Odysseus Group members are chosen • European Sea Scouting on Facebook during Eurosea Seminars. We hope that • Satahanka XII enthusiastic candidates will step forward. • Eurosea update Even if you would rather not be a member • Join the Odysseus Group! of the Odysseus Group, we need your help • Future events in other ways. Several dedicated Sea • Editorial / Help wanted!! Scouters have helped European Sea • Next issue Scouting for many years by editing our newsletter, building our website, and Greetings from the Odysseus Group organizing the “Ambassadors” effort. We Chairman would like to thank in particular Bruce Satu Raudasoja Johnson (BSA), Eoghan Lavelle (Scouting Ireland), and Luc van Nevel (FOS Belgium). I hope you I think it is time for them to be able to move have had a to other Scouting responsibilities or change great their role as helping persons. summer with many Would you be interested in organizing the enjoyable next Eurosea Seminar in your country? This Sea Scout will only happen if there is a local host experiences. team. We are looking for places for the Summer will next two Eurosea Seminars in either 2014 or soon be followed by fall, and with it comes 2015 and 2016 or 2017. Please consider the Eurosea International Sea Scout hosting Eurosea, and if you would like to Seminar in Denmark. I'm very pleased to see Eurosea in your country, fill out the report that we have over 50 participants application and present it at Eurosea 11 in coming. Denmark. There was another recent newsworthy Don't forget about our discussions event. A bust of Warington Baden-Powell on Facebook group European Sea was unveiled at Gilwell in June to help Scouting. See you there! commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Sea Scouting. Many thanks to Ron Brown and everyone who participated in making A New Resident at Gilwell this to happen. Ron Brown, photos by Finn Anker Petersen The Odysseus Group has lately been The founder of Sea Scouting has taken up focused on preparing for the Eurosea residence at Gilwell. A bronze bust of Euronaut / Issue 33 / August 2012 / page 1 of 10 Warington commemorative badge that could be Baden-Po worn by anyone, while the Sea Scout well was friendship badge was earned by unveiled participating in an international Scouting on June event. The motto, One Water-One Law, 10th in the reflects that while each country has its own middle of laws, law on the open sea is truly the international and is the same everywhere, Tasmanian very much like the Scout Promise and Scout Lawn at Law. the side of the White House at Gilwell Park. The bust is The the result of a fundraising project by Sea unveiling Scouts from around the world to marked commemorate 100 years of Sea Scouting the end of and was unveiled by Mr. Ed Baden-Powell. a six-year effort that Warington, BP’s elder brother, introduced involved him to sailing in the family boat during many school holidays. After the start of scouting people BP asked his brother to write a handbook and that would help scouts on the water, and associations. The bust was crafted by Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys was Marion Albers of the Netherlands who first published in 1910. donated her time. The bust’s wooden pedestal is the result of Dutch and Belgium The bust unveiling co-operation, while transportation to was attended by Gilwell was provided by Danish Sea Scout Sea Scouts from leaders. The organizers would also like to Denmark, thank Gilwell Park staff for their help with Ireland, the making this effort a success. Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Also present was the Sea Scout Centennial Flag, which has been present at many Sea Scout gatherings around the world over the last 2 years. It is currently in Denmark where the William I Koch International Sea Scout Danish Sea Scouts celebrated their 100 year Cup Results anniversary in July. Thomas Hartmann, Boy Scouts of America The Warington VALLEJO, CA, USA - Jack Donnell and Baden-Powell bust Brooke Stinson of Newport Beach, project was funded California narrowly defeated tough New by 2010 sales of two Zealand and Finnish teams in what was the badges and closest racing in the history of the William I. co-ordinated by the Koch International Sea Scout Cup. European Sea Scouting contact The Newport Beach team was ahead by group, the Odysseus just one point heading into the final six Group. One of the races, after two days of racing at the badges was a Sea California Maritime Academy. Donnell and Scout Stinson were constantly challenged by Euronaut / Issue 33 / August 2012 / page 2 of 10 Amanda are displayed at the Boy Scout Museum in Norris and Irving, Texas. Mike Anderson Matthew Rozario and Colin Bartles of of New Everett, Washington, won the Kiwi Cup, a Zealand Maori carving that has been dedicated to and former Sea Scout and Koch Cup Nikolas competitor Ben Carson who gave his life Kirkkomaki serving his country. Like the tight results in and the Koch Cup, Rozaio and Bartles narrowly Zacharias Still of Finland, edging them out beat a by two points and three points, tough respectively. Brazilian team of “We honestly didn't know who had won the Henrique race until we tabulated the scores. It was Afoltter back and forth the whole regatta,” said and Thomas Hartmann, the 2002 Koch Cup Gabriel winner and Scouting executive from dos Orange County, California, who ran the Santos. racing event. Vaughn Mare & Sabin Willson, South Africa Sportsman Approxima ship tely 70 Sea awards went to David Cornella and Liz Scouts Fletcher, of Dana Point, CA, in the Koch from fleet, and Vaughn Mare and Sabin Willson, around the of Roodepoort, South Africa, in the Kiwi world Fleet. sailed in 12-20 knots The of wind biannual and event is choppy named waters all week in Morrow's Cove, along the after Carquinez Strait at the California Maritime William I. Academy. This was the first time in the “Bill” Koch, regatta's 10 year history that races were the Palm held on the west coast. Teams from across Beach Zacharias Still & Niklas the country sailed CFJ's against Sea Scouts businessm Kirkkomaki, Finland from Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, an who Brazil, successfull Finland, y defended the America's Cup in 1992 off South the coast of San Diego. Koch agreed to Africa, and revive a Sea Scout sailing trophy and had Trinidad Asprey's of London, the original maker of and the America's Cup, produce this one. It Tobago. wasn't the only America's Cup connection this year, however including two ORACLE Sea Scouts Team USA sailors, the Director of were Technology for the America's Cup, and the divided Executive Director of America's Cup into two fleets after a day of preliminary Properties, Inc. racing in which the top half of teams competed for the Koch Cup, and a second Looking forward, the Koch International fleet raced for the Kiwi Cup, Both trophies Sea Scout Cup is searching fill 20 spots for Euronaut / Issue 33 / August 2012 / page 3 of 10 internation during WW2 and later updated by NATO. It al teams in is too early to provide event specifics, but 2014. The the camp will be held 5 - 12 July 2014. Koch Cup Associatio There currently is an intensive effort to clear n will trees that have grown on open fields over provide the past few years so that there will be a financial suitable camping area. We hope to assistance complete this task by spring 2013, giving to grass a full year to grow. The site will be Mike Anderson & Amanda internation used later as a district scout camp in 2015 Norris, New Zealand al scouts and a district cub camp in 2016. The who need campsite is primarily being built by help with airfare to the United States for this members of 2nd Kristiansand and 7th event. The national scouting associations Kristiansand Sea Scouts. of England, New Zealand, Australia, Finland, South Africa, and Brazil have been working closely with the Koch Cup Assc. to send teams to the event. We are looking for sea scouts from Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Spain, Greece, and Turkey, plus every other nation between! For more information, please contact Thomas Hartmann, at [email protected] See – www.seascoutcup.org Norway holds a Sea Scouts camp every four years. Stokken - Kristiansand - 1982 Marivoll - Grimstad - 1986 Sørlandet camping - Risør - 1990 Sørlandet camping - Risør - 1994 Bragdøy - Kristiansand - 1998 Randøya 2014 Bragdøy - Kristiansand - 2002 Aksel Carl Hundal, 7. Kristiansand Sjø, Lindøy - Stavanger - 2006 Norges Speiderforbund Kragenäs - Sweden - 2010 Randøy - We are Kristiansand - 2014 pleased to announce There were one or the two earlier Sea Norwegian Scouts camps, but National they were part of a Sea Scout national camp for all camp, scouts. Randøya 2014, that We try to alternate will be held on Østre Randøy island, a the camp's location former costal fortress built by the Germans among the west Euronaut / Issue 33 / August 2012 / page 4 of 10 coast, south coast, and the Oslo fjord area.