In 1943, Ezra Hale and his partners bought the ship and changed her name back to "Lotus". Ezra Hale and John Trahey donated "Lotus" to the Otetiana Council of the Boy Scouts of America in 1971, specifying that Sea Explorer Ship (now Sea Scout Ship) 303, chartered by the Kiwanis Club of Webster, NY be the ones to use it. The Sea Explorer Ship 303 had begun in 1965, and used a variety of power cruisers before the Lotus was donated.