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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.
Clipper Race at Boatshed.com HQ
Monday, 31 August 2009Gosport is home to Boatshed.com Head Quarters, plus it is also home of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
Today Monday 31 August 2009 the fleet departed Portsmouth Harbour and won’t return for almost a year.
Royal Clarence Marina i...
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 ...
Going the extra mile / Vamos más lejos
Tuesday, 25 August 2009At Boatshed Barcelona, we not only view and photograph every boat we list. We also advise and assist in reflagging boats, arranging surveys, coordinating transport operations and we even help with sorting out the insurance of your boat. In the cas...
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...
Boatshed Grand Union Sponsors Paddle Aid World Record Attempt
Tuesday, 11 August 2009Over 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...
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.
Rolex Fastnet 2009 yacht race to Plymouth
Tuesday, 11 August 2009The 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.
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...
PHUKET RACE WEEK RESULTS
Monday, 27 July 2009
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.
Begonia: 2 happy customers Begonia: 2 clientes felices
Sunday, 19 July 2009At 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...
PHUKET RACE WEEK
Saturday, 18 July 2009Boatshedphuket.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...
“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...
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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.