Hatteras Maritime Center –
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor” – Challenges and adversity are necessary for developing true skill and resilience. If ever there were to be a Private Educational Program, Cape Hatteras would definitely produce skilled sailors. Conditions are ripe to make this happen in 2025. If you would like to make this great vision become reality, please step up! We need your support right now!
professional degrees
path A – design
Hatteras Sailing Center is ideally suited for high school career minded youth to begin learning the elements of CAD design and milling techniques.
path b – engineering
Modern Marine Engineering goes right from the Computer Screen to the 3d Printer and is the most cost effective way to prototype mechanical concepts.
path c – oceanography
Cape Hatteras with its Turtle Populations, warm Palegic Current interactions and Pamlico Sound and Estuaries is an ideal place to study Oceanography
path d – fisheries
The challenges of Sustainable Fisheries are of vital importance to the consumers as much as it is to the environment. Hatteras has all types of fisheries!
marine trades
classic boatbuilding
Starting from the design, students can participate to build classic plank on frame, cold molded, plywood, and fiberglass boatbuilding techniques
marine engines
Outboard engine certifications for Honda, Inboard Diesel Training, Inspection, Troubleshooting diagnosis, transmissions, props, and even electric !
composites
Begining at basics of polyester and epoxy hand laid techniques, moving up into vacuum bagging, infusion and prepreg composite methods
sails Rigging canvas
Sailmaking, an art and science, sail design, cutting, assembly. Canvas design, frame building, patterning, and learning industrial sewing equipment.
youth training
opti development
Development means ongoing training, not just a one week camp. Kids from 8 to 13 can progress into regional, national and international levels!
high school sailing
High school sailing is a highly challenging and unique sport that in immersive in all aspects. Physically, intellectually, strategically, and pragmatically….
powerboating
Sailing programs can start with the very earliest age kids, and when ready, they need to learn safe powerboating to be able to become coaches/teachers.
offshore Experience
Blue water hours are the real living classroom for mariners. Nothing is comparable to being out on the Sea, power or sail…. its a requirement for licensing.
merchant marine training
licensing classes
Provisional Captains Licenses can start at age 16. Able Seaman, Firefighting, Engineering, Deckhand, Towing, Sailing are all short course certifications.
marine safety
Commercial, Merchant Marine, Private Captains, and even Recreational Boaters all need to keep up with Safety Training and new lifesaving technology
sea time partnerships
Partnering with regional business and industry is great for the student and the sponsor. Commercial, Industrial, Research, Military, etc.
emergency response
Hatteras of all places has ample need and room for well trained and certified emergency and first responders. Shipwrecks are a constant thing still.