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About the Project

THREATS TO OUR TRADITIONAL BOAT BUILDING HERITAGE

The Marine sector has demonstrated strong growth potential especially in the ‘Marine Leisure Industry’. However there are 2 problems restricting marine development:

  • The traditional ship and boat building skills could become extinct
  • It is difficult to recruit highly skilled workers mastering specific traditional boat building

“In the Netherlands only five people remain that master the skills to build or maintain traditional ships like Hoogaars type fishing boat; these skills are poorly documented and only transferred orally.”

SOLUTIONS TO PROTECT AND SUSTAIN OUR TRADITIONAL BOAT BUILDING HERITAGE

There are 4 solutions the Traditional Maritime Skills project is putting into action:

  • Collect and record traditional boat building skills
  • Promote these skills in traditional and modern ship and boat building
  • Increase the number of people pursuing education and a career in wooden boat building
  • Develop an outline for a training programme on traditional boat and ship building skills that can be customised

THE TRADITIONAL MARITIME SKILLS PROJECT WILL CREATE TOOLS FOR YOUR USE

  • A training programme on traditional boat and ship building skills to develop multi skilled boat building professionals
  • Promotional material for educational organisations e.g. fact sheets, displays, posters and presentations
  • An online virtual learning environment with a bank of interactive resources

HOW CAN THE TRADITIONAL MARITIME SKILLS PROJECT HELP YOU?

Businesses:

  • Can recruit from a larger pool of highly skilled staff trained in traditional boat building
  • Can access a training programme they can customise to suit their business
  • Can benefit from increased interest as the Traditional Maritime Skills project hopes to raise the profile of traditional boat building

Education organisations and people seeking a career in the marine sector:

  • People seeking a marine sector career will have access to an extensive training programme
  • The project will help define traditional wooden boat building career paths, and provide high quality marketing materials for schools and colleges to better direct their students for further learning
  • Students will be able to learn direct from the industry’s professionals via the projects virtual learning environment