Sea Scouting is a outdoor program for young men and women 14 - 20 years old and their adult advisors.  Sea Scouts provides a chance to sail, cruise on boats, learn navigation, learn how to work on engines. Scuba Diving and Oceanography. Sea Scouts often compete in regattas.

Robert Baden-Powell grew up being constantly reminded of his family's naval connections. His maternal grandfather was Admiral William Smyth. In 1872, when he was 15, Baden-Powell accompanied his brothers on a cross-country expedition by collapsible canoe. They slept in tents and cooked their meals over open fires. Little wonder then that B-P was to write later on in his life that he started his Scouting as a Sea Scout

Sea Scouting had its beginning at a campfire in England when Baden-Powell voiced the hope that older Scouts would be interested in learning about boat management and seamanship. He stressed the need for young men to prepare themselves for service on their country's ships. Sea Scouting was introduced by Baden-Powell with the assistance of his brother, Warington Baden-Powell, K.C., an Admiralty lawyer, sailor, and inventor of canoe sailing.

Henry Warington Smyth Baden-Powell

Known as Warington within the family, he was B-P's oldest brother. Early in his career he qualified as a Master Mariner and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Reserve. Interest in small boats (as described by B-P in his autobiography, Lessons from the Varsity of Life) led him to a fascination with canoes. In 1871, at the age of 24, he paddled and sailed a canoe on a cruise around the Baltic Sea that included stops in Germany, Denmark and Sweden as described in his book, Canoe Travelling, published in 1871.

The sea stood at the center of his life. After becoming a Barrister in 1876, he was admitted to the Admiralty Bar and became a member of several important organizations focused on the sea. He was admitted a Kings Counsel in 1872. Some details of his career are found in Robin Baden Clay's work on the Powell family history.

• Henry Warington Smyth BADEN-POWELL
• Born 3 Feb 1847.
• Educated at St Paul's, 1857.
• Qualified as Master Mariner.
• Commissioned as Lieutenant, Royal Navy Reserve;
• Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society (F.R.G.S.).
• Barrister, Inner Temple, 1876.
• Member of the Admiralty Bar.
• Kings Counsel (K.C.), Admitted 26 April 1872.
• Called Trinity Term 1876.
• Member of the Shipwrights' Company.
• Associate of the Institute of Naval Architects Council.
• Member Yacht Racing Association.
• Member Athenaeum Club.
• Died 24 Apr 1921 at age 74.

Baden-Powell asked his brother Warington to head up the first specialized branch of the Boy Scouts. Warington Baden-Powell agreed, and Sea Scouting was officially organized in England in 1910. Warington then wrote the first official Sea Scout manual. It was called Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys. The manual sold well and Sea Scouting flourished. It was in that same year that Boy Scouts was organized in the United States.