The 51-foot sailboat Lamia, seized in 2021 by the Federal Police and donated this year by the Federal Court and the Brazilian Navy to the Scouts of Brazil, docked this Wednesday (1st) in Niterói, metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, from of the Holy Spirit. The official donation of the sailboat Lamia to the Scouts of Brazil was held on February 7, in a ceremony that was attended by the commander of the Naval Base of Natal (RN) and Captain of Sea and War, Carlos Macedo. Then, on the 10th of that month, a team made up of four volunteer sailors from the Scout movement began sailing along the Brazilian coast from Natal, with the port of Paranaguá (PR) as the final destination, which will be the base of the sailboat. “They are all part of the Scouts of Brazil, from different scout groups”, informed the national coordinator of the Sea Modality of the entity, Marco Antônio Bortoli, to Agência Brasil. The fourth sailor, who had to disembark during the trip, returns to Santos and takes care of the machinery part. Marco Antônio Bortoli said that the Lamia will leave next Friday (3rd) for Ilhabela, from where it will head to Santos, both cities in the state of São Paulo, before heading to its final destination, which is Paranaguá. Bortoli stated that, legally, the use of the sailboat is already authorized for the Brazilian Scouts. School sailboat The vessel will function as a school sailboat within the institution. “The purpose of the sailboat is precisely to carry out a pedagogical work, where we will have training for adults and, later, for young people. These will be able to spend from one night of training, up to a week, inside the vessel”. Officially, the sailboat will start operating as a school for adults in the second half of this year and, for young people, in 2024. Marco Bortoli informed that some minor repairs and small adaptations will have to be made, with the help of sponsors, in order to leave the boat more and more secure. “In Paranaguá, we started to equip the sailboat with a pedagogical vision. The student starts learning the places, the pieces, the movements. The boat will be equipped precisely to have this connotation of being a sailing school”. The first action will be to expose the sailboat as a representation of the Scout movement. The first event is scheduled for the end of this month, during The Ocean Race, the largest transoceanic regatta in the world, which will be in Itajaí (SC) between the months of March and April. “We are going to take this vessel there, where it will be on display for a week”. Some Scoutmasters will train on site. The sailboat Lamia will return from the city of Santa Catarina with other adults. “After this experience, we are already starting to develop training for adults to find out if the vessel has qualified personnel to go from port to port, both in the southern part and in the northern part of the country”. Depending on the schedule, the idea is to tour the entire Brazilian coast, confirmed Bortoli. The sailboat’s trip along the Brazilian coast began in Natal (RN) and passed through ports in Paraíba, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, continuing this week to São Paulo and, finally, Paraná. Scout Movement Scouting was founded in 1907, in England, by Baden-Powell and arrived in Brazil in 1910. The movement relies on the collaboration of adults and values the participation of all social origins, races and creeds, with the aim of contributing to the training of children, adolescents and young people through a method that values education based on values, teamwork and outdoor life. Scouting now has more than 57 million members worldwide and is present in around 176 countries and territories. In Brazil, scouting practitioners are divided into three modalities: basic, air and sea. The Modality of the Sea has existed since 1921 and is characterized by its emphasis on water activities, aiming to develop in young people a taste for nautical life, for marine arts and techniques, for sailing and motor navigation, nautical travel and transport, fishing, study oceanography, nautical and submarine sports, among others.
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