Daily Schedule Overview

This schedule shows the full flow of each day at Summer Port—from Reveille to Taps. It includes meal times, ceremonies, liberty periods, and all five daily instructional sessions. Use this chart to understand when classes meet and how your days will be structured.

Course Catalog (Descriptions & Instructors)

Each course offered at Summer Port is listed with:

• What the class teaches

• Required skills or advancement connections

• How many sessions it meets

• The instructor or teaching team

Review this catalog to learn what each course covers and choose the subjects that best match your interests and advancement goals.

Course Selection Guide

This guide helps you build your personal schedule for the week. It includes:

• Meeting days for each course (MTWRF)

• Prerequisites (such as Swimming MB or Boating Card)

• Additional fees (where required)

• Notes on which classes can be paired if they meet fewer than five days

All participants must be enrolled in a class for all five daily sessions each day. Use this guide to make sure your course choices fit together without gaps.

How Everything Fits Together

1. Browse the Course Catalog to see what interests you.
   
   

2. Check the Selection Guide for meeting days, prerequisites, and any fees.
   
   

3. Use the Daily Schedule to ensure your chosen courses don’t overlap.
   
   

4. Build a complete five-session-per-day schedule for the entire week by using the Course schedule instructions document and Day Course Schedule Planner document.

What to Bring to Summer Port 2026

The What to Bring Checklist is your official packing guide for Summer Port. It includes everything each participant is expected to bring to camp and provides a simple check-off format to help you pack your duffle bag efficiently

Color Guard, Uniforms & Etiquette Guide

These documents provide the essential standards for how Summer Port participants will perform ceremonial duties, present themselves in uniform, and demonstrate proper Sea Scout manners. Scouts should review these materials before arriving at camp.

Color Guard Hoist Commands

How to properly raise the U.S. Ensign

This guide walks Color Guard teams through every command used during the morning hoist of the national ensign. This ensures that all Color Guard members know the sequence, movements, and etiquette required for a dignified and uniform ceremony.

Color Guard Douse Commands

How to properly lower and retire the U.S. Ensign
This document provides step-by-step instructions for the evening lowering of the colors. This ensures that all Color Guard members know the sequence, movements, and etiquette required for a dignified and uniform ceremony.

Uniforms, Manners & Etiquette Guide

Standards for appearance, behavior, and conduct at Summer Port

This guide explains the expectations for Sea Scout Activity Uniforms, Sea Scout Dress Blue Field Uniforms, and proper Scout manners during events, ceremonies, and daily activities.

Sea Scout & America’s Boating Club Rank Alignment Matrix

This document explains how Sea Scout advancement requirements connect with and are supported by U.S. Power Squadrons / America’s Boating Club (USPS-ABC) courses and seminars. It shows which USPS-ABC classes fulfill, exceed, or supplement specific rank requirements from Apprentice through Quartermaster.

AnimatedKnots.com — Your Online Marlinespike Training Deck

AnimatedKnots.com is one of the best online tools for Sea Scouts to learn, practice, and master the knots, bends, hitches, and lashings used in everyday seamanship. It provides clear, animated, step-by-step demonstrations, making it easy to study knots the same way a seasoned deckhand would—one turn, loop, and tuck at a time.