The programme is designed to foster a love of adventure on the water alongside building technical activity skills and leadership afloat.

Typical activities may include; dinghy sailing, rowing, rafting, swimming, kayaking, windsurfing, powerboating, canoeing, marine science and oceanography, keelboat sailing, engine maintenance, chartwork and navigation, preservation of maritime heritage, water safety and seamanship; ropework, line-handling, meteorology, boat maintenance, communications.

- Blessing of the Boats/ Launch Day is an annual feature to formally start the summer boating season.

Later B-P asked his brother Warrington, a well known yachtsman, to write a handbook for the new section, and “Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys” was published in 1912.

Henry J.Rundle RN, Officer-Charge, HM Coastguard Malahide, as the 1st Commissioner for Sea Scouting.

Other Troops developed in Dublin in the succeeding years, in most cases alongside HM Coastguard Stations.

With the outbreak of World War One, many Sea Scouts and their leaders joined the Royal Navy, often as Signallers or Coast Watch.

The event continues to the present day and is regarded as Sea Scoutings most prestigious cup to claim.

The very rapid growth between 1968 and 1978 was a mixed blessing, and a number of troops did not survive for very long, mainly due to problems of back-up support and of maintaining adequate supply of Leaders.

This was a great boost to training and was an activity centre where troops with little equipment could send Scouts for boating experience.

In the 1980s, CBSI remove Sea Scouting from their programme and develop a Water Activities Centre at Killaloe on Lough Derg on the Shannon.

The new Sea Scout Programme was launched in 2002, and includes a completely revised Progress Scheme, balanced between ashore and afloat, with a wide choice of activities.

This was however confined to the east coast, and was considered by some to be unsuitable for their needs and comparatively expensive for a craft which could not be used for sailing also.

The general feeling throughout the section was that we needed a boat about 18 to 20 feet long, which could carry about 5 or 6 Scouts and could be rowed or sailed.

Mr. Kevin MacLaverty, a marine architect, expressed interest in our project, and all the information that had been collected was handed over to him for study and opinion.

The conference adopted the design, and a committee was established to pursue the matter further, particularly to seek sponsorship for making the mould.

Its design is based upon the beenhakkervlet and its name is derived from the international Scout logo, the French lily.