Boat Building Academy Ltd

Boat Building Academy Ltd offers a truly unique career break experience - the opportunity to learn traditional boat building skills, and even build your own boat!

The courses

The internationally-recognised City & Guilds Level III course in Boat Building, Maintenance and Support is 92% practical and offers some students the opportunity to build boats for themselves as part of the course. Eighteen students progress from an intensive woodworking foundation course to boat plans, to lofting, to ordering wood, to setting up moulds, to building the boat, to fit-out, painting and finishing, and to the highlight of the final launch in Lyme Regis harbour. People leave the course with carpentry skills of a very high standard and a good understanding of boat construction.

The Woodworking Skills course has nothing to do with boats but, in line with the training philosophy, is an 8-week, intensive, highly practical City & Guilds certificated course in Carpentry and Joinery or Furniture Making. The eight week course teaches you about wood and working with wood, from trees and wood selection through to jointing, laminating and bending. Students make a ‘project piece’ of their choice to take away.

The high practical content of the courses, beyond the requirements of City & Guilds, is reflected by the additional award of a Boat Building Academy certificate.

The Boat Building Academy has twelve residential rooms on site and most students live in walking distance of Monmouth Beach.

Location

Based on Lyme Regis’s famous Monmouth beach in Dorset, the Academy lies at the heart of the ‘Jurassic Coast’, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It’s said that a walk along the coast is an almost unbroken journey through 185 million years of geological time.

Lyme has a vibrant group of small art galleries and studios, a 1930’s cinema, a small theatre overlooking the sea and numerous bars and restaurants. Students can join the newly-formed Lyme Regis Gig Club (the Academy built their first gig), the Sailing Club and Power Boat Club. Lyme is a small, traditional holiday town with a great sense of community.

How long?

38 week ‘Boatbuilding, Maintenance & Support’:
There are two start dates per year; March through to December and September through to June. Places are allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis on receipt of a completed application form and 10% deposit.

8 week ‘Woodworking Skills’:
13th October - 5th December 2008

Prices

38 week ‘Boatbuilding, Maintenance & Support’:
The fee for the courses starting in September 2008 and March 2009 is £11,600 for EU residents and £13,600 for non EU residents. The fee covers all the costs of the course: registrations, materials, use of tools, even tea and coffee. There are no extras unless you wish to build your own boat, in which case you are charged for the materials at cost.

8 week ‘Woodworking Skills’:
The fee for the course is £2,950. The fee covers all the costs of the course: registrations, materials, use of tools, tea and coffee. The only extra is the ‘student project’ piece, for which you are charged for the materials at cost.

About Boat Building Academy

Boat Building Academy Ltd was founded twelve years ago by Commander Tim Gedge, the present Director. It is a City & Guilds and Royal Yachting Association approved training centre, in addition to being a member of the British Marine Federation. The Academy takes a maximum of 18 students on each long course, and eight per course on ‘Woodworking Skills’ courses.

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