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We are delighted to announce that Look Insurance Services has joined Boatshed's Preferred Partners scheme, offering marine and boating insurance to UK based and registered pleasure boats. As one of the leading marine insurers,Look is ideally plac...

Retiring Lifeboat sold in just 23 days!

BWML Brokerage services working in partnership with Boatshed.com to provide a specialist brokerage service for Narrowboats and all that float on the canals. Boatshed is now the exclusive external broker in most of BWML’s 20 locations, available ...

Would you rely on this cylinder to inflate your lifejacket?

Lots of visiting boats are packed into the harbour to attend this years busy event.
The Boatshed ketch and crew are in attendance this year, even Poppet and Gimble got involved with the Dog-agility.
Many of the family favourites – su...

The Boatshed Business Development Team have had a busy first half of the year with new business owner brokers joining the group in Sud Med, Riviera, Penang, Lancashire, Isle of Wight, Brighton, Plymouth and North Wales and it doesn't stop there! ...

Results of the Brighton lifejacket clinic this weekend:

Negotiating and overseeing the removal of a part-finished project barge that had lain in a field near Henfield for over 4 years to its new home at a St Albans canal proved to be quite a task!

Obviously, like cars, new boats loose a lot of their value the first day they are bought. Where boats are concerned buying a secondhand boat is often a better option than buying new. I know this from personal experience.

The last lifejacket session we held at Brighton resulted in 100% of checked lifejackets that would NOT have worked, had they been needed! Could your child, wife, husband, mum or dad have been wearing one, had they gone overboard...?

It was a blustery, sunny day giving perfect weather for The "Round the Island Race 2015". 1584 boats racing around the Isle of Wight, approximately 60 miles. Neap tides were 3 days prior to the start of the race, with high water at Cowes being aro...

Gosport, the home of ocean racing, the birth place of camper & Nicholson's where Velsheda was built, at 10.00 the festival was officially opened by Alex Thomson, Gosport's very own round the World Solo Skipper. The weather started off grey and...

The first time I came across BoatBid boat auction website I was really unsure about making a bid. There were a couple of boats I was really interested in and wanted to be happy before I dived right in. I'd got lots of questions like: Can I have a ...

Boatshed Newsletter Summer 2015 - we have news and articles including - WIN a PADDLEBOARD Competition - How does Boatshed sell boats twice as fast? - News from America - The Truth about the used boat market - Life on a cana...

Many of the conditions and trends in the international used boat market that I reported upon in November 2014 continue and remain highly relevant to boat sales today. Overall, the market can be summarised as follow:

The Boatshed Network continues to grow: We are delighted to welcome to the group:
Paul Diffin at Boatshed Lancashire in UK, Rolv Reissiger at Boatshed Penang in Malaysia, Edward Kay at Boatshed Riviera in France, Billy and Jo Hallam at Boatshe...

Where to find the Boatshed crew during summer 2015

News from the US Pacific Northwest – Boatshed Seattle

The English Court of Appeal has for the first time, recently established an absolute rule that an assured who tells a lie or relies upon false evidence to support an otherwise valid insurance claim, will forfeit the claim entirely. In other words...

Back in the glory days, before the last recession, when the world was awash with cash and boat shows were held at Earls Court, I first came across Boatshed holding one of their famous Fizz at Five sessions. Their stand was near my Canal Experience...