BEng (Hons) Yacht Production and Surveying (Full Time)

Focus on the technology of boat building on this well-established degree which has an international reputation for producing highly skilled graduates.

Course overview

The BEng (Hons) Yacht Production and Surveying at Southampton Solent University is a technology degree that aims to produce graduates with the project management, numerical and practical skills of a professional marine technologist working in the yacht industry.

This degree is for yacht technologists, with an emphasis on the more practical considerations of production, manufacture and surveying. The three principal themes running through all three years are: yacht materials and manufacture, yacht engineering systems, and yacht design and production technology.

The course combines theory and practice and aims to build on your existing practical sailing and boatcraft knowledge. You will study in an ideal location, close to the thriving port of Southampton and its successful business community, which offers opportunities for extra practical experience.

Lectures and tutorials will be complemented by practical workshops on manufacture of composites, materials testing and machinery systems, together with computer-aided design (CAD). These are carried out using our materials testing laboratories, fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) workshops, CAD office and actual sailing and motor boats.

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Industrial focus

The course's international reputation is founded on many years of experience and on its dedicated team of well-qualified teaching staff who have strong links to industry and are active in consultancy and design.

Course content

Year 1

Five core units and one option unit:

• Naval Architecture Principles
• Yacht Design and Production Principles
• Marinecraft Materials and Production
• Marinecraft Systems Principles
• Marine Production Technology Principles.

Options

• Technology Principles
• Curriculum Plus.

Year 2

• Resistance and Propulsion
• Marinecraft Design and Development
• Applied Yacht Design and Production
• Applied Marinecraft Systems
• Yacht Rig and Keel Surveying
• Applied Marine Production Technology.

Year 3

Three core units and two option units:

• Advanced Yacht Design and Production
• Marinecraft Structures (practice)
• Project (double unit).

Options:

• Marine Manufacturing Management
• Yacht Hull Surveying
• Marine Industry Work-based Learning

Why choose this course?

• Solent has over 35 years' experience in delivering yacht technology courses.
• A 60-metre industry standard towing tank used for laboratory sessions and final-year project work, as well as a 4-metre stability tank.
• Accredited for membership by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA).
• Access to a wide range of study environments. The nearby Warsash Maritime Academy is used for practical field and boat work.

Assessment

Most units are assessed by a combination of course work and an exam element. Several CAD-based units, such as yacht design and production, are fully coursework assessed.

Key career skills

Creative thinking, problem solving, teamwork, design and production.

Projects/work experience

Visits to boatyards, lifeboat builders and marine equipment suppliers. There is a formal marine industry work-based learning option available in the final year.