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This weekend was my first visit to a canal traders market, and Birmingham’s event is reported to be Britain’s biggest floating market. The three day event, beginning on Friday 25th September, welcomed 24 trade boats to a stretch of towpath nea...

Gosport Marine Scene meets at Southampton Boat show to celebrate all things Gosport.

As you know I had quite a chaotic start. Just before the race started, I gybed and the sheet for the mainsail got caught around the GPS console and ripped it off. I was SO confused, sad and worried, when it happened, thinking that I had ruined som...

Latest news from Boatshed re, Signe Storr sailing the Silverrudder Challenge, a single handed race, 134 miles, around the island of Fyn in Denmark. An accidental gybe 2 minutes before the race start took out her chart plotter/navigation stainless ...

Avast me hearties! Didn't mean to hornswaggle ye ......but......It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day celebratin' public pirattitude around the world. Come and talk like a pirate on the Boatshed.com stand BO53 at the Southampton boat show.

Boatshed.com join Commodore Yachting at the Southampton Boat show to celebrate and raise a glass with Jeanne Socrates as she enters the Guinness Book of World Records becoming the oldest woman to sail non stop, round the world.

The annual Silverrudder Race started this morning. The challenge is to navigate the 134 miles around the Island of Fyn in Denmark, single handed, under bridges, through narrow channels, against strong currents, avoiding unlit fishing gear at night...

Europe’s largest festival of boating sails into Southampton and Boatshed.com are on their regular stand BO53 enjoying the fun. The Southampton Boat Show is now Europe’s largest outdoor festival of boating with over 2km of pontoons . Now in its...

Waterline Boats will have two Helmsman Trawlers® on display at Boats Afloat!
A 2015 Helmsman Trawlers® 38 Pilothouse and a NEW Helmsman Trawlers® 31 Camano.

This week Boatshed Poole & Lymington had their last Summer get together with customers and Engineers. We also surprised Ian, with a cake to celebrate running Poole & Lymington for over 10 years. He was somewhat shocked.
Here's to the...

Three fun-filled days of professional Broker Boatshed Training at the Boatshed HQ in Gosport for Boatshed Brighton, Boatshed Cumbria and Boatshed Riviera .

Look insurance Services today announce it has entered into a strategic partnership with Boatshed. The partnership program will see Look insurance Services providing yacht insurance quotations for Boatshed UK clients and allows a special discount f...

The Boatshed crew were recently visiting Brixham and we pulled in there to avoid bad weather. What a pleasant surprise, we haven’t visited Brixham for a couple of years and we found the whole experience great fun.

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 ...

If like the Boatshed crew, you like visiting regattas, then you will love the Dartmouth Regatta.
We love the sailing and racing but we also love the shore-side stuff and the air show.
-For aircraft nerds you are gonna love it! ...

Mylor Yacht Harbour, a hidden gem that’s worth checking out. This week on a visit to Falmouth we decided to call in at the Mylor Yacht Harbour facility. Mylor has always been a location on our regular dog walks when we are staying in the main ...

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...

Guernsey is fantastically set up to welcome visiting yachtsmen and recently two local ladies, are selling breakfast baguettes, croissants and pan au chocolate on the outer pontoons, so you get breakfast delivered to you. This has all been made pos...