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Instructors
Our instructors and technical advisers have all worked or are still working in the marine or woodworking industries. The experience they bring to the Boat Building Academy provides a wealth of expertise for the courses, and a pool of specialist advice for specific projects.
We also have a pool of visiting Instructors
who bring additional skills training to both long and short courses.
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Justin Adkin |
| Justin Adkin was brought up on boats in the fishing village of Beer. He built his first boat in his spare time during an engineering apprenticeship, then went to Rowsell and Morrison to build rowing dinghies and ocean rowing boats. In 2003 Justin set up his own business building Salcombe Yawls and ocean rowing boats, including the boat he built for himself and in which, with his brother and two cousins as a four man crew, he won the '05-'06 Atlantic Rowing Race. |
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Mike Broome |
| Mike Broome spent six years as a marine engine fitter before becoming a designer of special-purpose machinery. He left engineering to train in traditional boat building skills at Lyme Regis where, with a fellow graduate, he then set up a successful small company building boats of both modern and traditional wooden construction. Mike started as a part-time instructor at the Academy before joining full-time in 2007. His partner continues to run their business. |
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Jack Chippendale |
| Jack is the doyen of the UK's wooden boat builders with well over four thousand boats to his credit. He has been foremost in the development of innovative techniques and the use of new materials in boat building. Jack has been deeply involved in training throughout his career and the BBA is delighted to have him as a tutor to the instructors as well as a committed and inspirational instructor, although at a distance these days. Jack was awarded an MBE for services to boat building in June 2010. |
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Paul Dyer |
| Paul Dyer worked in IT management before completely changing career and becoming a student on the 38 week course here at the Academy, where he gained Distinctions at Levels II and III. He worked as a boat builder and as Accommodation Manager at Lyme Regis Marine Centre before being promoted to his present role of Training Manager and Assistant Instructor. |
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Roy Gollop
Visiting Instructor |
| Roy began as an apprentice boat builder in 1946 before enlisting
in the Royal Marines where he was responsible for landing craft
operations and later senior instructor of seamanship, craft
handling and navigation. He returned to Lyme Regis to manage
the family fishing business for several years until he finally
reopened the toolbox - building clinker dinghies and working
boats for local use. |
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Bob Jennings |
Bob worked for a laboratory supplies company for 32 years after graduating as a Biochemist. After taking early retirement and building a small stitch and glue boat, Bob completed the City and Guilds course at the BBA in 2007. On leaving the Academy, Bob started work as an Instructor/Assessor at the Marine Skills Centre in Poole, teaching marine apprentices practical and theoretical NVQ and City & Guilds certificated boat building. He then joined us in August 2009 as a Woodworking Skills Instructor and Trainee Boat Building Instructor. |
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Matthew Law |
| Before taking the C & G course here in 1999, Matthew worked in education and research at Trinity College, Dublin after working in emergency relief and development in East Africa. He worked as a shipwright for Lathams Boatyard in Poole after completing his City & Guilds course and first instructed for the BBA in 2004. |
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Craig Pinder |
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worked in the forestry industry for 14 years and is a Professional
Member of the Institute of Chartered Foresters and Secretary
and Treasurer for the Institute of Foresters South West Region.
Craig completed the Boat Building Academy's long course in 2006.
Whilst on the course Craig built a cedar-strip, SKUK Explorer,
the Explorer CS. Ocean Paddler magazine spotted Craig's kayak
on his roof rack - and knew that they had to test it for an
article! To view the article click here.
After the course he repaired a 34' folding trimaran at the LRMC,
which had been damaged after becoming grounded in Northern France.
Craig joined the BBA as a machinist in May 2011.
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Will Reed
Visiting Instructor |
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has a degree in furniture design and worked at Buckinghamshire
Chilterns University College before coming to the Academy
to learn boat building. Instructors wept at the beauty
of his dovetail joints. After the course he started
his own business building, restoring and repairing boats,
in addition to designing and making furniture. In September
2008, when Will came to the end of a commission, the Academy
persuaded him to return as an Instructor. He also set
up a woodworking and boatbuilding business near Salisbury
and continues to teach our short woodworking courses. |
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Mark Ripley
Visiting Instructor |
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Mark
specialises in furniture design and making. He is a
member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen and the Hampshire
and Berkshire Guild of Craftsmen .
Mark exhibits his work widely and his designs have
featured in numerous books and magazines. '
Furniture Making Projects and Plans '
(Guild of Master
Craftsmen Publications
Ltd 2008), Mark's own book,
has recently been reprinted. He is
also a visiting lecturer at the Building Crafts College,
teaching students about batch chair design and production.
He is a visiting lecturer at the Building Crafts College,
teaching students about batch chair design and production.
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