page_title: Warington Baden-Powell
section_title: Canoe sailing
hierarchical_section_title: Warington Baden-Powell / Canoe sailing
caption_attribution_description: English: This canoe was used by Warington Baden-Powell on his Baltic cruise in 1869. The design was based on the "Rob Roy" style of hybrid canoe-kayak introduced by John "Rob Roy" MacGregor. Warington continued improving his design, taking Nautilus No. 5 to the United States in 1886 to compete against the American Canoe Association.
context_page_description: Henry Warington Smyth Baden-Powell KC, known as Warington within the family, was a British master mariner, canoeist, and admiralty lawyer. The oldest full brother of Scouting pioneer Robert Baden-Powell, Warington Powell was instrumental in the founding of Sea Scouting.
context_section_description: From his childhood, Warington Baden-Powell had been an enthusiastic sailor of small boats and later became a pioneer of sailing canoes, which he designed himself based on the "Rob-Roy" type of hybrid canoe-kayaks which had been built by John "Rob Roy" MacGregor. In July 1869, accompanied by a companion known only as "H", possibly his brother Baden Henry, Warington undertook a canoeing expedition in the Baltic Sea, and published an account of his adventures in 1871. He was an early member and promoter of the Royal Canoe Club which he had joined in 1874. By the late 1870s, sailing canoes were taking part in organised racing, and providing keen amateur sport at reasonable cost at a time when yachting was an activity for the wealthy.
  The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition mentions him in the 'Canoe' entry:
  W. Baden Powell modified the type of the "Rob Roy" in the "Nautilus", intended only for sailing. From this time the two kinds of pleasure canoe—paddling and sailing—parted company, and developed each on its own lines; the sailing canoe soon (1882) had a deck seat and tiller, a smaller and smaller cockpit, and a larger and larger sail area, with the consequent necessary air and water-tight bulkheads in the hull. 
  — Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, vol 5
  In 1872, Warington took his brothers, including the 15 year-old Robert, on an expedition by canoe up the Thames to its source and then on to the River Severn and the River Wye. There followed several other family expeditions in southern England which made a deep impression on Robert, who later recalled that Warington had "infused so much jollity and romance into that early sea-training that it gripped me from the first".
  In 1886, the American Canoe Association challenged the Royal Canoe Club to a sailing race and accordingly, Warington travelled to the United States with Walter Stewart and their canoes for the ACA annual meet at the Thousand Islands in the Saint Lawrence River. However, the heavy British general-purpose cruising canoes were beaten by the Americans who had developed specialised racing boats.
caption: The design for the sailing canoe, Nautilus No. 3, which was used by Warington Baden-Powell on his Baltic cruise in 1869.
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