So Now you’re a Watch Leader Congratulations you are now a Watch Leader and you now have an opportunity to further develop your existing Scouting skills plus learn some new ones As the name implies, a watch leader is expected to lead and this requires strength of character and skills of leadership. You may have spent a period as an Assistant Watch Leader and have already learned many of the required skills from your Watch Leader. If so you will find that the new job is not too hard to tackle. Watches Watches the equivalent of a Patrol in a Scout Troop and are the building blocks of a Sea Scout Troop. Your Watch is a team of six to eight Scouts who make things happen. With your help as the Watch Leader you plan together, learn together, and all of you work together to turn your exciting plans into action.
Together, members of your Watch can achieve much more than each of you could on your own. You can invite your non-Scout friends to join the troop and become watch members too. Watches are such an important part of Sea Scouting and some time in every Troop meeting should be set aside for each watch to meet by itself. At other times your watch may meet together in the home of one of its members, in the Scout Den or at a special watch meeting place.
