Yacht and Boat Design Degrees

Overview

Yacht and Boat Design degrees at Southampton Solent University expand on your existing passion, practical skills and knowledge of sailing by teaching challenging subjects through practice.

You will develop analytical and design skills in a relaxed and engaging environment with like-mined people allowing you to become a naval architect.

Course Features

You’ll combine design and technology principals with lab-based testing and practical work to give a solid understanding of how theory works in practice
• Numerous transferable skills in business, numeracy and management mean you’ll have plenty of career options from which to choose.

Why study Yacht and Boat Design at Southampton Solent University?

  • Where better to study Yacht and Boat Design than in one of the UK’s largest port cities? 
  • You’ll be taught by award-winning staff.
  • You’ll have unique access to our industry-standard facilities at the City Centre and Warsash Maritime Academy where you can try your hand at computer-aided design.
  • The courses are accredited by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
  • The courses have an internationally recognised reputation, opening numerous career doors.
  • Field trips include visits to boatyards, lifeboat builders and marine equipment suppliers.
  • You’ll have exclusive access to the university’s 10-metre catamaran Evolution 995 ‘Solent Surveyor’ to undertake engine work and testing and a 60-metre towing tank and 4-metre stability tank for lab sessions.