Boatswain Scout Interest Badge

Badge requirements

Do ONE of the following:
1. Repair a small hole in a pulling boat, or
2. Patch a canvas or rubber hull, or
3. Repair a small hole in a fibre-glass hull.
Make the following bends, hitches, or splices:
1. Back splice, eye splice
2. Marlinspike hitch.
3. Double carrick bend.
4. Catspaw.
5. Mouse a hook.
6. Turk's head.
7. Hunter's bend in synthetic rope.
8. Jury masthead knot.
9. Boatswain's lanyard incorporating at least six sennits (i.e. boatswain's weave, rolling boatswain, half hitches, diamond knot, grapevine, three corner crownings, flat sennit, Turk's head).
Make a sailmaker's whipping and make off correctly the ends of a nylon or plastic rope using heat.
Make a fender suitable for a pulling boat.
Demonstrate how to take care of, clean and remove stains from sails.
Identify 3 different synthetic fibres both in cloth and ropes.
Take part in painting and varnishing a boat.
Make the following pipes on a Boson's Call:
1. The Still.
2. Carry on.
3. Pipe the side.
Make and use a Bosun's chair.
Overhaul and repair a set of standing rigging, in both wire and cordage, for an open sailing craft.
Demonstrate the uses of purchase tackles and rig a purchase tackle.
Make a boat bag, using canvas, PVC, or synthetic cloth. List the contents of the boat bag.