Boat Building Students

Students on the 40-week Boat Building, Maintenance and Support course come from a wide range of backgrounds.

People find working closely as part of a group of mixed nationality and experience, with shared interests and common aims, is of enormous value.

Students ages have ranged from 18 to seventy two (although we have made exceptions for exceptional 17 year olds). Some people are training for their first career, others are looking for a change, some are taking a sabbatical, and others, after retirement, are doing something they have always dreamed of.

Students’ ambitions after the course vary:

to work in the marine industry (in yards ranging from small traditional yards to volume manufacturers like Spirit, Princess Yachts or Sunseeker)
to provide themselves with the practical skills to underpin, for example, a Marine Architecture degree or Yachtmaster qualification
to set up their own business
to use the practical skills they learn outside the marine industry
to build or restore a boat for themselves
to learn how to work with wood for the pleasure of it

See Graduate Case Studies for information on a representative sample of how our students have used their skills after the course. On the Testimonials page a range of students talk about their experience while on the course.