Boat Building
Faculty of
Industrial Technology
Certificate III in Marine
Craft Construction (for Overseas Students)
Benefit Statement
Successful completion of this course will enable you
to apply for trade recognition as a Boatbuilder.
Topics covered
- Workplace safety
- Use hand and power tools
- Interpret technical drawing
- Perform general woodworking machine operations
- Manual handling
- Work with industrial chemicals and materials
- Mark out structural fabrications
- Form and integrate fibre-reinforced structures
- Produce curved 3-dimensional shapes
- Manual heating and thermal cutting
- Interact with computing technology
Career prospects
Employment opportunities: Boatbuilding is a growing
industry in Australia and world wide. The skills you
will learn as a boatbuilder will not only open doors
of opportunity in boatbuilding, but other fibreglass
industries that utilise the laminating, plug making
and other skills.
Learning pathways: On successful completion of this
course, graduates may consider further study at a
higher tertiary level within the vocational
education and training sector.
Delivery Method
This course is delivered for a minimum of 20 hours
per week over 72 weeks, excluding holidays. Delivery
is a combination classroom delivery, assignments and
industry assessment. Competencies will be assessed
by a theory test, practical skills and projects.
Course is delivered onsite at our Ashmore Campus
which includes: 1 workshop and classrooms.
The objective of vocational placement is to better
familiarise students in real workplace settings for,
Certificate III in Marine Craft Construction, with
people who work in the Marine Craft industry. The
greater the practice of skills during vocational
placement, the higher the skill levels the student
will achieve and the more likely the student will
not only meet but exceed the learning outcomes.
The student will be placed in a range of industry
relevant settings ranging from small, medium and
large in order to give the student a broad range of
practical experience thus further enhancing their
theoretical learning at TAFE.
The industry placement is co-ordinated by a member
of the TAFE marine craft construction teaching team
who regularly monitor the range of vocational
experience being gained by reviewing the student's
vocational placement diary on a monthly basis.
Each student is provided with a vocational placement
diary with workplace forms which need to be
completed and signed off by the workplace supervisor
and registered training organisation instructor when
the student has achieved competence for each
workplace task. These workplace tasks have a direct
link with learning outcomes and assessment
requirements.
Support Services: TAFE undertakes a duty of care
towards students and offers student support
services.
Course Resources
Steel capped safety work
boots, safety glasses (not goggles), tape measure
(metric), pencils, pens, paper and calculator.
At the commencement of each unit of study, the
Institute supplies the following resources, where
applicable:
Learning Materials:
Learning Guide, assessment requirements, handouts,
online resource lists, reference lists, vocational
placement diary/work book, clinical practice
workbook
Library Resources, where applicable:
- Access to photocopiers
- Textbooks
- Reference books
- Access to computers for online
searches
Facilities and Equipment available:
Information technology (computers) MS2003 XP
Windows, Office Professional, Outlook, Internet
Explorer, job-related software for
teaching-learning, computer disk drive and USB ports
Please contact info@thisisaustralia.com for more information.
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