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Nautical Skills Staged 4 Activity Badge

Nautical Skills Stage 4 Activity Badge

To purchase this badge, you need to be a member of a Leadership Team or Support Team. You’ll need to sign in and enter your details, plus your membership number in the Scout ID box.

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Overview

Nautical Skills Stage 4 Activity Badge

Unleash your inner seafarer and develop the skills to take a boat or other craft out on the open water.

How to earn the badge:

1. Develop your skills in two water based activities. Show competency and technique in:

launch and recovering a watercraft
manoeuvring a watercraft
communicating with the group
knowledge of safety

2. Take part in a capsize and recovery drill for the two watercraft you have chosen.

3. Use a throw bag or line to reach a person six metres away in the water.

4. Show you know how to apply the steering rules to your chosen watercraft and recognise the main channel markers.

5. Use a knot (either a round turn and two half hitches or a bowline) or a cleat correctly to moor a boat with a painter or mooring line. Describe what you need to be aware of when using these to moor.

6. Complete one of the following:

Pipe the ‘still’ and ‘carry on’ on a Bosun’s call.
Make a sail maker’s whipping and one other type of whipping and safely heat-seal the end of a rope. Describe the correct use of these whippings.
Make an eye splice or a back splice and safely heat-seal the end of a rope. Describe the correct use of these splices.

7. Name the parts of your chosen watercraft. If you have completed Nautical Skills Stage 3 you must choose a different watercraft.

8. Take part in a challenging three-hour expedition or exercise afloat.

9. Take part in a competition or crew-based activity in your chosen watercraft.

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About this product

Type: Woven with merrow border
Size: 40mm

Delivery & Returns

Standard Delivery - £1.99 delivery for orders of badges and woggles only.

Next day delivery - Next working day on orders placed before 1pm £6.99.

Next day delivery orders placed after 1pm on Friday or during weekends will be delivered Tuesday (Excluding bank holidays - when orders will be delivered on Wednesday).

Returns - You have 60 days to return an item for exchange or a full refund, excluding sale items.

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