Tiara Yachts Gifts $75,000 to Great Lakes Boat Building School

Tiara Yachts has gifted the Great Lakes Boat Building School (GLBBS) $75,000 in support of incoming students and the “Come Aboard, Launch Careers” capital campaign that will increase the school’s capacity for educating future generations of marine professionals.

“Tiara is not an assembly plant, we strongly believe in what we are doing by translating our passion into building individual boats,” says Thomas Slikkers, Tiara Yachts president/CEO. “We see that passion developing in the students from the Great Lakes Boat Building School, which is why we decided to make this gift.”

GLBBS is helping to address one of the biggest challenges in the Michigan marine industry: The dire workforce shortage of qualified marine service technicians and marine carpenters.

“We are humbled and honored to be the recipient of this generous gift from Tiara Yachts, a pillar of Michigan, United States and international marine industry,” says Nikki Storey, Great Lakes Boat Building School president. “This flagship donation from the Slikkers family will transform the lives of students almost immediately and the positive impact on the fundraising momentum for our new facility will have a positive ripple effect on the industry for many years to come. This gift is incredible.”