1993:  Commodore Mark Endicott asks Andy Griswold to form Sea Scout Ship.  Ship 1851 (named after the year of the first America’s Cup) is already taken.  So, the Ship is chartered as Ship 851.  During the first few years, most scouts are children of HIYC members.  Events include daysailing, skill-building and racing.

1997:  A new group of Scouts joins, many from the Ship’s co-sponsor (at the time), Hermitage United Methodist Church.  Activities consist of daysailing, racing, overnighters and skill-building.  Several Scouts attend HIYC’s sailing camp.  Off the water activities include regular meetings, movie nights and fundraising.

1998:  The replica of the Columbus ship Nina comes to Nashville.  Sea Scouts win the Fall 50K regatta by a 12 minute margin in Andy’s Tanzer 22.

1999:  The first high adventure trip is planned.  It is decided to charter a boat on the Chesapeake Bay.  An O’Day 37 from the Annapolis Sailing School is chartered for a 4-day excursion.  4 adults and 4 scouts went on the trip.  We stayed in a Virginia Tech dorm on the way there and back.  This was a captained charter, and the captain boarded the boat each morning and left us each night.

2001:  The first Pearson 30, Triad is purchased from Bay City, MI in August.  This replaced the Tanzer 22, Morningstar as Andy’s primary boat, and the boat used most often by the scouts.  The first scout overnighter using Triad happens in November.

2002:  The Scouts plan the first trip to the Apostle Islands National Seashore on Lake Superior in Wisconsin.  A boys boat and girls boat (Pearson and Cal 34) are chartered from Sailboats Inc. in Bayfield, WI.  These are bareboat charter, so Andy and Cathy Griswold are the ship captains.  9 scouts and 2 leaders went.  While in one of the shallow bays, all of the scouts jumped in the water.  It was cold, but not unbearable.  Popular attractions were touring the lighthouses, the sea caves on Devil’s Island, and of course the big, clear water.

2003:  The scouts voted to return to the Apostle Islands.  This time we went at the beginning of the season (May), and when we arrived we could see the ice pack still out in the main lake.  Because of this, the water was just above freezing.  Again a boys boat and girls boat went (Tartan 34 and C&C 33) with 8 scouts and 2 leaders.  Several mishaps happened.  The first was a line fouling the prop on the boys boat.  2 scouts with wetsuits dove under to attempt to free the line, but were unsuccessful.  The line was cut.  The next was during a big storm at the end of the trip.  A squall with 30 knot winds and 6 foot waves chased us back into Bayfield.  Along the way, a line caught a deck vent (again on the boys boat) and ripped it off.  Minutes after docking, the main storm hit, with even more wind and 2 foot waves inside the breakwaters.

2004:  The scouts voted to return to the Apostles a 3^rd time.  8 scouts and 2 leaders went, again on a boys and girls boat (Columbia 10.7 and Pearson 33).  We arrived on the boats just in time for the Bayfield Independence Day fireworks show, held on the 5^th due to the weather.  We visited the sea caves again on Devil’s Island, but this time went ashore and did some hiking and toured the lighthouse.

2006: The scouts again visited the Apostle Islands.  This time it was a 10 day trip with 5 days on the water and 14 in attendance.  5 adults and 9 youth.  This time we used three boats.  Catalina 30, Pearson 323 and Islander 36.

2007:  Sea Scout Ship 360 joins forces with 851 and starts meeting with us on a regular basis.

2008:  We get to take a tour of an Ingram tug boat and go for a ride.

2009: First trip to Pensacola, Florida where charter a Hunter 28 and Beneteau 32.  We also get to tour the Navel air museum and attend a Blue Angles practice.

2010:  We attend the 2010 Jamboree celebrating 100 years of Scouting is the USA.  And put on a boat inspection at Old Hickory Lake.

2011:  Second trip to Pensacola.  20 in attendance including 8 adults and 12 youth.  For this we chartered the same Hunter 28 and Beneteau 32 plus a Catalina 36 and Beneteau 38.  Additionally our Scouts are becoming more involved at the Council level and in January attend the first Venturing/Sea Scout Klondike derby.  And in September attend their first youth training at the new Latimer Hight Adventure camp in East Tennessee.

2012:  Yes the yearly Klondike derby (each year forward.)  But the big event of this year was the 100^th celebration of Sea Scouting in the USA.  Six months of planning was involved with a couple hundred in attendance the day of the event.

2013:  Our Scouts attend the Sea Scout Commodores Cup regatta in Atlanta and put on the first Pfeffer regatta at HIYC.  In October they are honored to be the Color Guard for a Submariners Tolling of the Ships ceremony.

2014:  Our Scouts put on the first ‘Tolling of the bell’ ceremony for the Hospice regatta.  Then visit Charleston, SC where among other things we crewed on a 48 foot sailboat.  And got to tour the fort there and the USS York Town aircraft carrier.  Note that for this tour we meet us with the local Sea Scout ship.  And they took us places most visitors do not get to go in the ship.  It was a real treat.  Then in December our Scouts put on the first Sea Scout ball which was held at the Jet Potter Boy Scout center.

2015: we take a LOT of Sea Cadets sailing and Gina Beckman becomes the first Female to achieve the rank of Quartermaster in Tennessee.

2016 and 2017:  Our scouts are now involved in regular trainings at Latimer, the Klondike Derby, the Tolling of the bell ceremony, Venturing/Sea Scout Rendezvous, the Sea Scout Ball the Commodores Cup and Pfeffer regattas.  And they do their first flag retirement ceremony for the club in March.  And Yes they are taking part in local regatta too.  And both years they visited Waveland, MS.

2018:  Marks 25 years.  And the adventure continues.