You are registering for 11/2/19 USS Constellation Encampment, Baltimore Inner Harbor

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The pack is planning an overnight encampment. This trip is open to all registered cub scouts and their parent/guardian. A parent/guardian is required to attend with their scout.

When: November 2, 2019 to November 3, 2019

Where:
Conveniently located in Baltimore's historic and picturesque Inner Harbor and a stone's throw from the National Aquarium, the Maryland Science Center, Harbor Place, and the Civil War Museum

Historic Ships in Baltimore USS Constellation Overnight Adventure
Pier 1, 301 E Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202

How Much: The cost of the encampment is $57 per person. The pack will pay one-half ($28.50) the cost for each scout.

About:

Overnight programs provide an immersive hands-on historic experience with twenty-first-century applicability that encourages team-work, problem-solving, and learning. Historic Ships in Baltimore's Overnight Adventures offers groups a unique opportunity to walk in the footsteps of sailors and learn about life aboard a mid-19th century Navy warship.

USS Constellation Overnight Adventure

The overnight program provides an immersive, nineteenth-century, hands-on experience that encourages team-work, problem-solving, and learning. The USS Constellation Overnight Adventure offers groups a unique opportunity to walk in the footsteps of sailors and learn about life aboard a mid-19th century, U.S. Navy warship. Participants become Landsmen, USS Constellation’s newest crew members. Overnight recruits “learn the ropes” and quickly develop both a working nautical vocabulary and a familiarity with the basics of life aboard a man-of-war including Civil War-era dining, hands-on activities, and the navy hammock.

*Cost includes two meals (evening & morning), bed (hammock or bunk), all activities, and trained educators
*Programs begin at approximately 5 PM and conclude at 9 AM the next day


IMPORTANT FOR PARENTS:
About the Overnight Watch. The Overnight Watch is an integral part of the Overnight Adventure. Aboard Constellation during the Civil War, officers and crew remained attentive throughout each night to ensure the ship’s safety and security while the majority of the crew slept below decks. Although there is no risk of being attacked by Confederates, the need remains to maintain a watchful presence throughout the night and to take similar precautions. Our night watch program provides a unique opportunity for participants to learn about some of the shipboard procedures and routines carried out on a man-of-war, and, perhaps most importantly, it fosters responsibility. Upon completion of the day’s programming the Master-at-Arms, or lead educator, will lead a discussion about the Night Watch. After explaining the procedure and answering all pertinent questions, overnight participants will be assigned hammocks by the ship’s crew according to the Night Watch Bill. Once everyone has a hammock and understands his or her duties, the Night Watch will begin.

The Watch Crew are any youths in your group who wish to participate. (youth are not required to participate). Please be advised that when filling out the Night Watch Bill you are arranging where you will be sleeping. If you wish to be in an adjacent hammock to your child, you must be in the same watch whether or not the child is actually going to man a watch. Overnight Watch is Mandatory. There must be at least one adult (Watch Leader) 21 years old or older to be responsible for each watch shift. Manning the Night Watch is mandatory for Adult Overnight Participants.