Long Course Class of March 2008

At 0900 hours on Monday 17th March an architect, a labourer, a journalist, the MD of a special effects company, a carpenter and a Doctor of Oceanography (to mention but a few of the 16) met each other for the first time.  They will spend the next 38 weeks working together in a common endeavour; learning the craft of boat building.

Instructed by Mike Broome and John Stuckey they were at work by 1100 hours on the first day of the intensive, 6 week, woodworking foundation to the course and had cut their first scarph by the end of the day.

As with all the courses, the students have many different reasons for joining the Academy; to gain the skills  and City & Guilds qualification that will find them employment in the marine industry; to fulfil a lifelong ambition to build a boat; to develop their joinery skills and build boats along the way; to take a 'gap year' from their real lives.

The boats the course build will be decided in the next three weeks after discussion between the students, Mike Broome and Paul Dyer, the Training Manager.  They will move into the main workshop and start building in June.  The course finishes on December 12th 2008, which seems a long way off at the moment...

Meet the March 2008 students on the Student Profile page where, from June, there will be links to pictures of the boats they are building.