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Apprenticeship · 2026 Intake

Learn the craft. Keep the harbor sailing.

Every year Triton Marine opens a small number of paid scholarships to people who want to learn boatbuilding and marine repair from the ground up — alongside the shipwrights, mechanics, and electricians who keep the Patmian fleet alive.

No prior experience needed. What we look for is patience, hands, and a willingness to spend a year on the water.

No prior experience
Tools & gear provided
Monthly stipend

Wooden hand planes resting on a workbench with shavings

Why we open the door.

A working harbor needs working hands. Every year fewer young people grow up around boats, and the knowledge that built this fleet is harder to pass on. The scholarship is how we hold that line.

Preserve the craft

Traditional Aegean boatbuilding skills, kept alive in a working yard.

Transfer knowledge

Senior shipwrights teach the way they were taught — at the bench, on the hull.

Build careers

Apprentices leave with a trade, not just a certificate.

Keep the fleet alive

Local boats stay seaworthy because there is someone left who knows how.

A year in the yard.

Twelve months, four phases, one boat at the end of it.

01

Onboarding

Month 1

Yard safety, the workshop, materials, and the people you'll learn from.
02

Hand tools & joinery

Months 2 – 4

Plane, chisel, saw. Reading wood. The fundamentals every shipwright needs.
03

Hull & rigging

Months 5 – 9

On the cradle: caulking, fastening, ribs, planks. How a hull holds together.
04

Sea trials & handover

Months 10 – 12

Splash, rig, sail. Take the boat out, find what you missed, fix it, and finish.