Over a year after they first formed, you will find Sea Scout Ship 1261 out on the waters of Sturgeon Bay in the coming months. The Door County Maritime Museum took on the task last year to introduce Sea Scouts for the first time in decades. Sea Scouts is a segment of the Boy Scouts of America that takes boys and girls out of the woods and puts them on oceans, bays, rivers, and lakes. The program is divided into units called ships, where members worked on improved boating skills and better citizenship. The unit, known as Ship 1261, has nine members with plenty of room to grow. Door County Maritime Museum Executive Director Kevin Osgood says they are preparing to launch a 26-foot sailboat that a community member donated to take the members from the land out onto the water.

Ship 1261 meets at the Door County Maritime Museum on the first and fourth Thursdays of every month at 6:30 p.m. The Door County unit is the only one in northeast Wisconsin, with Sheboygan and Wausau the next closest.  

Picture courtesy of Door County Maritime Museum