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Knowles Hill

Knowles Hill: Designing for Industry

Knowles Hill School in Newton Abbott are involved in an exciting partnership with the marine industry, designing the deck of a commercial craft for their sponsors Wateroo Craft........ click here to learn more

Build Guides

Check out our latest Build Guides

Our latest build guides give you all the advice and information you need to build a successful boat. Visit our Hints & Tips page to download the guides........more

Engineering Drawings

Engineering Drawings

We have now added a number of useful engineering drawings to the site. They can be downloaded from the Curriculum page........more

Skills

Skills Challenge Visit

The Schools Marine Challenge team recently attended the Skills Challenge and helped lots of schools contest a sailing event........more

 

 

Schools Marine really is delivering for Young Apprentices

Find out how a group of young apprentices tackled the marine challenge........more

 

 

Rose Bowl

Rose Bowl Sailing Event

Schools Marine Challenge attended a special, one off event at Hampshire's Rose Bowl. The event, hosted by Solent Skills Quest was attended by over 2000 pupils from the region........more

   
   
   
School Visits

School Visits

A number of schools recently received support visits. Check out our progress reports to find out how they are doing. You'll find a couple of invaluable bits of information which could make all the difference to your challenge on Race Day........more

   
Winners 04

Budmouth Race on the Solent

After their victory at Roadford Lake in 2004, the team from Budmouth received their prize, a thrilling ride on an America's Cup yacht, at the recent Southampton Boat Show... take the chance to have a look at how they got on........more

   

Marine Sailing Event

In a special one-off event, the Schools Marine Team worked with a large number of students at Hampshire's splendid Rose Bowl. No IC, Electric or Solar craft were there... this time it was all down to windpower........more

Rose Bowl
   
Scrapheap Challenge

Scrapheap Challenge

Viewers of Channel 4's Scrapheap Challenge may have taken a second glance at the expert in this week's challenge. Schools Marine supremo Rob Austin appeared on the show to help out the Anoraks Team - how did he get on?........more

   

Race Day 04

The second Schools Marine Challenge Race Day took place on a barmy Summer day at Roadford Lake. Read our full report to find out what happened in all three racing categories........more

Rcae Day 04
   

Archived Newsletters....

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Throughout the year, regular Newsletters are published to keep you up to date with all the goings on in the Challenge. You can download the past newsletters here

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