All in great form and glad to have dry land under their feet for a few hours!

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The Fry cup is Sea Scouting Ireland’s Senior Seamanship Competition.
In 1918, Major-General Sir William Fry presented a very handsome silver cup to the Port of Dublin Sea Scouts.  This was to be used for an annual seamanship competition and has become our most prestigious trophy.  The Fry Cup Competition has continued without interruption to the present day.

Over the weekend a unified team from Malahide Sea Scouts came first place in this prestigious seamanship competition. A first for Malahide, six members from across our scout sections came together over the last weeks and trained regularly and lifted the coveted trophy. The challenge is for scouts age under 17 years as of the 1^st   of June. The syllabus covers both basic and advance seamanship skills including rowing in a boats crew, navigation, chartwork, water safety, anchoring, sailing theory, steerage and buoyage.

Congratulations to one and all, of our hard working team who lifted the trophy on the harbour wall in Dunlaoghaire . Special thanks to Scouter Colum McCaffrey who worked closely with the team during their period of training.

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Please note that registration will stop upon fall in at 11:00 followed by the first race (U13s) at 11:30.

Sea Scout Triathlon 2018

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Every year on the last Wednesday of January the Troop celebrate the “Troop Birthday Party” which includes their annual awards ceremony.

The winners of this year’s awards are as follows:

Sailor of the Year: Euan Burke
Oarsman of the Year: Joseph McLochlainn
Hiker of the Year: Jamie Wilson
Kayaker of the Year: Tadhg Geraghty
Seaman of the Year: Theo Allen
Scout of the Year: Patrick Harrold

Special congratulations to Evan Hopkins who was voted Leader of the Year by the troop, which was awarded in absentia.

The 2018 Troop Photo can be seen below.

Check out the picture of the Troop celebrating their 8th Anniversary (35 years ago!) below, recognise any faces?

Brian Colgan 2018

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18 Scouts, Ventures and Leaders launched a mixed flotilla of Setanta (skiff), Danú (RIB), Ériu (yacht) and Laser Stratus and all headed for the island (in the pouring rain!).

Camp was made and the BBQ started for another epic night under the stars away from the hustle and bustle of everything back on the mainland.

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This is not the first time that a Malahide Sea Scouts crew has entered the race and in the past we have preformed well, so the best of luck with the training.

The leaders will be working hard to give a good performance on the day and have been putting in great work to ensure the boats and equipment are in top condition.

Attaching leathers to the oars to protect them from wear.

The finished product ready for use.

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The route traverses the spine of the Wicklow Mountains running South from the small townland of Knockanarrigan to North towards Enniskerry, including some of the highest peaks in the region such as Lugnaquilla (925m), Mullaghcleevaun (849m), Toneelagee (817m) and Camenabologue (758m) totaling to approximately 65km over the 3 days.

Well done all and to young Leader Nathan Greene for coordinating this years expedition.

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Volunteer Scouters from Malahide, Reachra County and surrounds at our last recent ‘Welcome to Scouting’

The last course of Welcome to Scouting in its present format came to an end on Thursday 4th February 2016 . Started back in the late nineties under our former association (Scout Association of Ireland) training scheme a  video of a  duration of about 45 minutes was shown too new potential volunteers. Given details about becoming a volunteer the video covered information about scouting and a schedule on further training .Narrated by Andrew Kelly of  communications in  SAI  was a well produced and gave potential volunteers a insight into the workings of scouting. The course was updated and became more interactive  when Scouting Ireland was formed back in 2004 ,but still retained the title ‘Welcome to Scouting’.

In the period of almost 20 years the training team of Malahide have trained  up to 320 volunteers into the 9th Port Malahide .When  the course was extended  to cover Reachra County and  surrounds a total of  920 volunteers have been trained . This is great credit to the training team in Malahide .Our thanks goes to Stephanie Mc Cann, Anna Hickey , Kevin Rowan ,Elaine Dunne, Stephen O’Reilly and of course to all those volunteers who turned up to the courses .

Keep Training – Keep Scouting

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