We will shortly take delivery of new sailing boats, including an RS Venture and an RS Toura, all with thanks to the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media’s Sports Capital Equipment Programme. This is a huge step for us and will multiply our ability to get young people afloat in a team-based…

Some of our Sea Scouts recently completed the Connacht and Ulster Mountain Pursuit Challenges. These two night expeditions require participants to be full self-sufficient for equipment, food and navigation in the hills for two nights and two days. Well done to all! This would not have been possible without the support of our local credit…

To meet high demand from young people in the community, we are recruiting additional volunteers. In particular we are looking for female volunteers to work with our 11-16 age section. Full training provided and no previous experience required! Let us know at 1portseascouts@gmail.com if interested!

We were delighted to receive support from Kontex for our summer programme. You can read all about it here – https://www.kontex.com/blog/kontex-announce-support-to-1st-port-of-dublin-sea-scouts/

We are getting ready to return to in-person activities following the latest public health guidance! Current members will get information soon on the arrangements. We still have an extensive waiting list, which we will continue to work through. Though as numbers for in-person activities are currently limited, we don’t expect a large number of places…

Summer 2019 was a great success with our members attending camps in Fota Island and Lough Allen. We now start our winter nautical skills programme and look forward to next spring and summer. We also did significant (but slow) refurbishment of our facilities to ensure we have a top class location for our young members….

We took delivery of an East Coast Skiff in September 2017 courtesy of 8ú Calafort Gasóga Mara.  We are delighted to have the use of this boat. We will spend winter 2017 preparing it for a summer afloat in 2018. Being part of this tradition of rowing in Dublin Bay is very important to us…

All sections are currently on a short break. What a summer we’ve had so far!  We will do an intake from the waiting list in mid-September so if you are waiting to hear from us, you’ll hear then! While we can’t take everyone from the existing waiting list, we will accommodate as many as we can. …

Make sure to check out all the photos from our recent events, including a Cub trip up the Liffey, beach trips and hillwalking adventures here! We have plenty more planned over the coming weeks, with overnight camps, survival nights, dragon boating and sailing trips.  

We are delighted to have been chosen to be part of the Aviva Stadium Community Fund Scheme in 2016. The €2,000 recieved will support our boating programme, with equipment being purchased over the next few weeks.

On 19 July, Scouting Ireland’s Chief Scout, Christy McCann invested Beaver and Cub Scouts at Focsle. Photos can be seen here. Thanks to everyone who came, inlcuding our guests Christy, Steph, Mark, Colin, Therese and Ger, and well done to all the young people!

So we are now 3 months into our Sea Scouting journey. We have had some great adventures including our hike to Larch Hill International Scout Centre and Cub Scout dinghy sailing.   In our next 3 months we will have the Great Beaver Boat Trip, a Cub Scout overnight and much more! We will be…