Southampton boatbuilding apprentices to showcase skills on global stage
City College Southampton has been chosen as one of only two colleges nationally to showcase its boat building skills during the 2011 WorldSkills competition being held in London later this year.
The showcase gives the college, its students and apprentices the opportunity to shine in front of up to 150,000 visitors, who are expected to flock to the event at ExCeL between October 5 and 8, 2011.
WorldSkills London 2011 will be the world's largest, international skills competition with young people from across the globe competing to be the best of the best in their chosen skill, championing high training standards through competitions and awards. This will be the first WorldSkills Competition to be staged in the UK for 20 years with 1,000 competitors from 50 countries/regions competing in 45 skill areas over the four days.
Under the guidance of City College’s expert tutors, four marine boat building apprentices will build an 8 foot PBO (professional boat owner) Pup (pram dinghy) live on stage. They will build the dinghy from ply and timber, using traditional boat building skills such as laminating, sealing, planing, stitching, gluing techniques and shaping.
City College has invested heavily in its Marine Skills Centre at Woolston, which boasts some of the best training equipment in the region. Engineering, including marine is its biggest faculty, and represents over 20% of activity at the college.
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