Basic Shipbuilding Knowledge Course-02

The Sherbrooke Shipbuilding Shop taking registrations for this year
 

 

Attending the Basic Shipbuilding Knowledge Course is a great way to boost your career prospects. Many Attendees will participate to develop themselves in their existing role, while others will attend with a complete change of career in mind.

Employers large and small understand that studying part time while managing work and personal commitments shows determination, adaptability, motivation and a high level of organisational and problem-solving skills – qualities that they value highly

 

It seems to be a common misconception that all “outside trades” can just transfer there skills to working in a shipyard on a new build shipbuilding project.

While the skills are transferable they are with few exceptions not directly transferable. Someone with no shipbuilding knowledge will struggle for some time to be an effective member of a shipbuilding team

 

The basic shipbuilding knowledge course is based mostly on my own experiences in shipbuilding but also on what I have learned from many other sources, as never have I met anyone who knows it all in shipbuilding, many I have met purport to knowing it all and they are a liability who may just be passing on the wrong type of information.

This Basic Shipbuilding Knowledge Course will only deal with the structural build of a ship

 

If you don’t know or never learn the basics of shipbuilding then how can you develop pride in what you are doing there is so much more to building a ship than just welding two pieces of steel together.

Without the basic knowledge of shipbuilding how can you learn to read a shipbuilding drawing?

 

•         Shipbuilding knowledge = Interest = Ability = Pride

•         Pride in the job results in better work which in turn results in a better end product with lower costs

•         More accuracy = Better quality = Better Tradesman.

 

 

The more technology used and the more automation requires a higher understanding of the whole shipbuilding process which all starts with a basic understanding of shipbuilding

Failure to understand shipbuilding basics will produce someone perhaps doing a repetitive job with no interest whatsoever resulting in poor workmanship standards

 

 

To be continued.