{"id":2116,"date":"2016-04-12T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/sea-scouts-learn-nautical-skills-and-life-lessons-during-trip-to-alaska\/"},"modified":"2017-08-10T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:14:55","slug":"sea-scouts-learn-nautical-skills-and-life-lessons-during-trip-to-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/sea-scouts-learn-nautical-skills-and-life-lessons-during-trip-to-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Scouts learn nautical skills and life lessons during trip to Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Sea-Scouts-Charting\"<\/a>Leslie Kolke is wandering tentatively on the deck of the Sea Scout Ship Propeller. She\u2019s a preschooler surrounded by teenagers, but she\u2019s safe under the watchful eye of\u00a0her mother and grandfather, and even at this age, she gets it.<\/p>\n

Leslie\u2019s mom grew up on the Propeller. Her mother\u2019s father is its Skipper. Her mother\u2019s father\u2019s father was a Sea Scout leader.<\/p>\n

So yeah, she definitely gets it.<\/p>\n

More than a decade later, Leslie, now 17, is standing proudly on the Propeller\u2019s deck as a real-life Sea Scout.<\/p>\n

Now, she\u2019s one of those teenagers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a fourth-generation Sea Scout, which is pretty cool,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Normally, Leslie is the Propeller\u2019s boatswain, the officer in charge of the ship\u2019s equipment and crew. But on this long cruise \u2014 from Seattle to Ketchikan, Alaska, and back again \u2014 she\u2019s serving as boatswain for only 10 days and then as crew leader, which means her duties are to lead and maintain the crew of the ship.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a big job. The Propeller is a 65-foot boat, and there are 19 people on board. There\u2019s no room \u2014 literally \u2014 for people who can\u2019t work together.<\/p>\n

In other words, Leslie\u2019s job is to make sure everybody else gets it, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve really enjoyed how much the crew has bonded together,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s more than I\u2019ve ever seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much as a 50-mile backpacking trek through the wilderness forces people to get along and accept each other, so does a three-week cruise on
\na Sea Scout vessel.<\/p>\n

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