Marine Trades Institute is located along the northern shore of Lake Huron in the Les Cheneaux Islands. The school sits on a gorgeous waterfront campus where students can truly live, learn, and work on the water! As a student training in Michigan’s Eastern Upper Peninsula, you can satisfy any thirst for outdoor recreation within the endless acres of public forest, trails, campgrounds, rustic resorts, beaches, and miles of open water and protected channels.
Cross over the Mackinac Bridge into Mackinac County and visit Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior in 45 minutes! The EUP boasts of beautiful state land, national forest, and miles of shoreline for hiking, biking, boating, hunting, fishing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, and more!
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The Les Cheneaux Islands
Located east of the Mackinac Bridge along the northern shore of Lake Huron, these 36 islands provide sheltered channels and bays within the Straits of Mackinac – a historic harbor area for boaters and explorers.
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Marine Trades Institute
Marine Trades Institute’s campus houses an impressive 12,000 square-foot facility on the waterfront with another 10,000 square-foot shop currently under construction. Additional training facilities, administrative offices, and boat/equipment storage is located less than a half a mile north of the main campus.
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Visitors can come by car, plane, and of course, by boat!
Amazing Alumni
What I love most about my current job is that I get to be on the water every day and since I am on commission, I can be as busy as I want to be. In Austin the boating industry is huge, and the demand is very high for people like me. This allows me to work as much as I’d like. Seeing different calibers of boats from a 17ft fishing boat to 60 ft yachts to 115 ft houseboats gives me a wide variety of vessels to work on and learn from. This is why I chose this location.
Grant Vale | '21 | Hurst Harbor
If you love boats and working with your hands, then a program at Marine Trades Institute may be perfect for you!