Collage showing a student working on an outboard engine, an overhead view of the large workshop and a student working on a large boat engine in a smaller workshop with other large engines in the background

Marine Skills Centre

Our state-of-the art Marine Skills Centre with some of the best facilities on the South Coast

City College’s specialist Marine Skills Centre is located on the waterside in Woolston, Southampton, featuring some of the best marine training facilities on the South Coast for boat building and marine engineering.

The centre features specialist workshops for boat building and repairs, composites (FRP and GRP), marine engineering and marine electrical. In addition to classrooms for theory-based training, it has an open-plan computer suite with CAD facilities.

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Marine engineering workshop

Workshop with various large engines and a group of students stripping down one engine

A student tightens bolts on a large boat engine

A student fits a part to an outboard engine

Marine electrical workshop

2 students work at a bench with electrical testing equipment

A student wires electrical sockets on a wall

A collection of different boat electrical switches and displays on a wall

Boat building and repair workshop

Overhead view of students at workbenches constructing wooden boat sections

A student at a large saw cutting wood

2 students sand down a wooden boat outdoors

Composites workshop

2 students in protective clothing sand down a glass fibre boat

A student at a workbench constructing with glass fibre

2 students paint the inside of a boat in a large workshop