For 26 years, the Pardee Scout Sea Base has been offering outstanding and diverse programs in seamanship. The base has 1000 feet of docks with moorings for over 70 vessels. The building, built in the shape of a ship, contains meeting rooms, navigation facility, showers, toilets, a maintenance shop and storerooms. There is a resident director at the sea base and Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies routinely patrol the area and frequently check on the facility. The park has a public fishing dock.
Scouts can spend the night sleeping on boats in a relatively safe environment and location.
Alternatively, the rooms in the building may be used as a dorm. Cooking is done on grills located in Burton Chase Park, with limited indoor cooking facilities for inclement weather. The Sea Base has dock carts to carry gear. The Director or his appointee needs to check equipment you have used prior to departure. Campers are required to clean and wash down any boats you use, before leaving the base.