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BoatBid.com the online used boat auction supported by Boatshed.com has just launched the catalogue for their fifth auction. As usual we have a range of motor and sailing boats for sale in this auction which will run from the 12th to the 16th Sept...

Over the August Bank Holiday Weekend Mike and Chris Jenkins will be attempting to paddle the length of the Grand Union Canal from Birmingham to London, raising money for MacMillan Cancer Support.
The brothers were inspired to this effort by th...

Based in Sovereign Harbour, John & Barbara Spittal are the newly recruited Boatshed Agents for Boatshed Sussex. Other harbours in the area include Rye, Seaford, Newhaven, Brighton and Shoreham.

The 9th of August saw the start of The Rolex Fastnet race and the end of the Cowes week regatta. The Rolex Fastnet is a sailing yacht race from Cowes to Plymouth via the Fastnet rock off the South coast of Ireland.

Last week Boatshed.com Yacht Brokers caused a stir when we sold 24 boats in one day!
This week there is another Boatshed record to shout about; 124 boats sold in a month!
Why so many boats? we asked Neil Chapman founder of Boatshed.com ...

Bucking the recession and redundancy trend, Boatshed Norfolk yacht brokers in East Anglia, are reporting booming boat sales and have increased their workforce by 50%.

The Eastbound North Atlantic sailing record has fallen. Pascal Bidegorry, skipper of the enormous maxi-trimaran Banque Populaire V, is now not only the fastest man under sail over 24 hours, covering an amazing 907.9 miles, he has also become the ...

If you were listening to Radio 4 this morning after the shipping forcast at 05.20 you would have heard the start of one of the most prestigious racing calendar events in sailing.
Cowes week, starts today, its 183rd year!
Cowes week stats: ...

The team at Boatshed.com are considering rewriting the words to a certain song as they really do like Mondays especially last Monday July 20th when the Boatshed.com Yacht Brokerage Group posted a record 24 boat sales in just one day!
The boat...

Boatshed Phuket are pleased to be able to take a pause in our Yacht sales activities to bring you the results of this year’s Phuket race week.

At Boatshed Barcelona, in the course of our business as used yacht brokers we sometimes get confronted with very nice challenges. One of the recent ones was “Begonia“, . During 21 years, this very well kept Cape George 38 was the home of her f...

Boatshedphuket.com would just like to let you all know that the 6th annual running of Phuket Race Week will be held off the east coast of the Island from the 22nd - 26th of July. Consisting of four days of professionally run international standard...

A recent competition for the “best job in the world” was won by a Brit, as caretaker on an island in Australia, we think we have gone one better, sun sea sand and boats, lots of boats. All this just two and a half hours from central Europe, we...

Neil and Mandy Chapman were invited to celebrate the retirement of Dan O'dwyer, Coxswain of the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat.
Dan and the crew of the Courtmacsherry lifeboat received a bronze medal for the rescue of Neil and Mandy and their cousin ...

“all the woes and worries that afflicted you on dry land – all the things you ought to have done but have left undone, all the drab detritus and clutter of your daily existence – slough away like the old dry skin of a snake". Chris Ste...

With the excellent summer and boat sales at an all time high you wonder where the credit crunch is?

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the charity that provides a 24-hour lifesaving service around the UK and Republic of Ireland. Last year RNLI lifeboats rescued almost 8,000 people, an average of 21 people a day.

The “Next Generation of Sailors” competes in Slovenia – the European Optimist Championship (EOC) in Piran, begins….

Church Stretton is probably as far from the sea as you can get in England. Mandy Chapman from Boatshed.com HQ office in Gosport was visiting the area for the day and was asked to help with the RNLI fund raising the local town.

Phew what a week that was! The fourth BoatBid online boat auction has just ended. We’ve had 32 used motor and sailing boats being auctioned online over the past 5 days and we’ve been busy answering all your questions and helping everyone to ...