Geoff Brown on Sea Scouts

Yes, well we’ve got the Workshop at the end of the building here and every, end of every season we know which boats need work on. Some boats need repair, others we need some mods, like our Safety Boats this winter we’ve been doing some mods on. We’ve got another sailing boat we’ve been given, but we haven’t done anything with it yet.

That’s meant to be coming into the Workshop to do some work on it. With a hole in it at the moment, that’s why we were given it. But being glass fibre, the Scouts will do the work on it. We will get them doing glass fibre repairs.

Any painting that’s got to be done; they will do the work. Where we’ve just converted one boat of the moment, one of our Rescue Boats has gone from tiller steering to centre console wheel steering, we’ve had to do a lot of work on converting that.

We’ve had 2 or 3 Scouts a week working on that, sawing things down, screwing things and even the engines they will maintain, stripped every winter, like that. The Scouts do that, take them apart.