Boat Building Academy

For many our courses leads to a professional career, for others a chance to follow a dream for the sheer joy of building boats and making furniture surrounded by like-minded enthusiasts and our expert tutors. Learn more: boatbuildingacademy.com #boatbuilding #woodworking

Geoff studied at the academy after 35 years in the Royal Navy. Studying on the 40-week boat building course he then set up locally building and restoring boats Read Geoff's story and other graduate case studies here: bit.ly/BBACaseStudies #boatbuilding #royalnavy #woodworking

Tomorrow is the grand opening of the Repair Cafe Lyme Regis at the BBA. From 10 - 13 bring in your broken household items, appliances, gadgets, small furniture, toys, sewing items, textiles and bicycles. The volunteer repairers will do their best to bring them back to life.

Boats and cabinets are being built. Both the furniture makers and boat builders are hard at work putting their new skills into use. With our May furniture course fully booked both our boat building and furniture making next intake is in September! #woodworking #boatbuilding

Last week was our first taster day of 2025! With two more on 9th of June and 10th of October, it's the perfect time to try something new, tour the boat building academy and make your own mallet. Course here: bit.ly/Tasterdays #woodwork #woodworking #lymeregis

The ‘Boat Diaries’ for the class of September 2024 is now LIVE! All are welcome to stop by the Boat Building Academy and look in at the boats being built. You can also keep up to date with our students’ progress on our website: bit.ly/BoatDiaries #boatbuilding #dorset

Join us on Saturday 3rd May 11:00 - 16:00 for our 2025 Open Day! Tour the workshops, talk to staff students, see boats and furniture made by our students. With activities for kids and adults, food, drinks and a raffle. #openday #lymeregis #dorset #somerset #devon

It's the first day of our February 40-week boat building course and we're happy to welcome our new students in and at their benches already. With our next course starting in September learn more about it here: bit.ly/BBA40WeekCourse #retraining #boatbuilding #newstudents

It was an honour to host Michael Dooley Esq LVO HM Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset, who toured the academy and discussed the future plans of the boat building academy.

The Women's Workshop is back on 28th April to the 2nd of May. Taught by boat builder Amy Stringfellow who will guide you through the basics of woodworking. bit.ly/BBAWomensWorks… #women #workshop #woodworking

Spending a week learning and practicing skills our wooden boat restoration students ended the week working on student Steve's boat. With another course running 21-25 July check it out here: bit.ly/WoodenBoatRest… #restoration #woodwork #woodenboat

Amazing to see recent furniture making graduate Aiden Lawley make and present a time capsule to the King last month to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the King's Foundation! #graduate #timecapsule #kingsfoundation

By popular demand we're running another Beginners Woodwork course! This June 16-20th get into woodworking, learn the basics and with your new skills make a wooden frame to take home. bit.ly/BeginnersWoodw… #beginner #woodworking #newskills

Luke has gone on to work at boatyards in the Caribbean, UK and Canada after graduating from the Boat Building Academy. Read Luke's story and our other graduate case studies here: bit.ly/BBACaseStudies #boatbuilding #travel #woodworking

Our first #tasterday of 2025 is the perfect opportunity to explore the Academy, speak to the team and ask any questions. You’ll have a #tour of the workshops, learn practical #woodworking skills and make your own wooden mallet. All our short courses: bit.ly/BBAShortCourses

Taught by master sailmaker Mark Mathews we have two courses on 10-14 Feb and 11-15 Aug take a lot at them and our other short courses here: boatbuildingacademy.com/short-courses

Great to see three of our graduates on the front cover of WaterCraft and an article by Colin Henwood - Boatbuilder meeting up with graduate Jack Livesey of Paradise Boat Co Read the full article on our website: bit.ly/BBANewsandEven… #boatbuilding #watercraft #frontcover

Riva Scoiattolo built by our Sept '23 40-Week Boat Building Students and launched last June has been nominated for the Classic Boat Awards 2025! You can vote here: awards.classicboat.co.uk/vote-now/ Congrats to Thomas, Honey, Ailin and Richard who worked on Riva! #awards #boatbuilding

It's the first week for our January furniture making students and they're learning routing. Our next 12-week furniture making course is in May and we run short courses making stools, tables, chairs and more: bit.ly/BBAShortCourses #furnituremaking #woodworking #shortcourses

We're very happy to be supporting the start of the Lyme Regis Repair Cafe. Find our more this Saturday at the Lyme Regis Power Boat Club! 🔗 lymeregisrepaircafe.org.uk #repaircafe #lymeregis #Volunteers