News
This is where we publish our boat related stories and articles, which range from world circumnavigation to rescue missions, humour and much, much more. So make yourself a coffee and settle yourself down to a good read.
It's show time! Southampton International boat show 2009
Sunday, 30 August 2009The Southampton International boat show is just around the corner and as ever Boatshed.com will be there, we’ll be at stand C53 and we’d like to extend a very warm invitation to anyone coming to the show to come over and see us. Don’t forg...
Help for Josh at Boatshed Plymouth
Sunday, 30 August 2009Tony and Amina Cleal have come down to Boatshed Plymouth from the Solent area to give Josh Flavell a hand with this busy Devon Yacht brokerage. Tony and Amina are no strangers to the Boatshed system, Amina works for Boatshed HQ and will continue ...
New Office in Pwllheli Marina for Boatshed North Wales
Monday, 24 August 2009Boatshed North Wales have had a really good season this year. In spite of the economic doom and gloom, they have sold over 50 used motor and sailing boats since February. These have gone to new owners in the UK, Holland Germany, Finland, Sweden a...
Boatshed Hamble commentates on the annual Brambles Cricket Match
Saturday, 22 August 2009It was once again time for the annual Brambles Cricket Match held on the
Brambles Bank at 6am on Saturday 22nd August the Royal Southern Yacht Club
against the Island Sailing Club and Peter Delbridge of Boatshed Hamble was
up before t...
A little more about 2 sailing boats in the auction
Friday, 21 August 2009The BoatBid.com catalogue has a range of used motor and sailing boats on offer. All the boats are keenly priced as they are very seriously for sale but some of them though fantastic boats are not that well known so I thought I’d let you know a...
Southampton Boat Show BoatBid catalogue launched
Thursday, 13 August 2009BoatBid.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...
New Boatshed Sussex agents based in Sovereign Harbour
Tuesday, 11 August 2009Based 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.
124 boats sold last month
Friday, 07 August 2009Last 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
Boaty Bob Boosts Broker Business
Tuesday, 04 August 2009Bucking the recession and redundancy trend, Boatshed Norfolk yacht brokers in East Anglia, are reporting booming boat sales and have increased their workforce by 50%.
Banque Populaire V Atlantic crossing 3 days 15 hours 25 mins and 48 secs
Monday, 03 August 2009The 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 ...
Cowes Week 2009 starts TODAY
Saturday, 01 August 2009If 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:
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24 boats sold in one day
Tuesday, 28 July 2009The 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...
“Probably the best job in the World !!!”
Monday, 13 July 2009A 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...
Courtmacsherry Coxswain retires
Monday, 13 July 2009Neil 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 ...
Credit crunch? Boat sales operation expands
Monday, 06 July 2009With the excellent summer and boat sales at an all time high you wonder where the credit crunch is?
Complimentary 1 year Offshore membership with the RNLI
Monday, 06 July 2009The 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 European Optimist Championship in Slovenia
Monday, 06 July 2009The “Next Generation of Sailors” competes in Slovenia – the European Optimist Championship (EOC) in Piran, begins….
Fund raising for the RNLI
Saturday, 04 July 2009Church 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.
Fantastic fourth BoatBid.com boat auction
Friday, 26 June 2009Phew 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 ...
BoatBid.Com bidding started on Monday
Friday, 19 June 2009Interest in the fourth BoatBid.com online boat auction is really hotting up. All our Boatshed.com brokers, who are handling the individual sales for the used boats in the auction, have been really busy answering questions and arranging viewings o...
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This is where we publish our boat related stories and articles, which range from world circumnavigation to rescue missions, humour and much, much more. So make yourself a coffee and settle yourself down to a good read.