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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 ...

Interest 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...

Boatshed BVI , International Yacht Brokers has seen a massive increase in European inquiries for good value yachts for sale with people either wanting a cruising sabbatical through the Caribbean islands or purchasers who are looking to ship their ...

Blue skies, 30 fast women & some great sailing boats - Boatshed Dalmatia attends Croatia’s first ever Women’s Match Race (WMR)

There’s just over a week to go before the next BoatBid.com boat auction which has almost 40 used boats of all types going under the virtual hammer. We have everything from pretty little wooden yachts to big powerful motor cruisers and all types...

The Katalinic 750 Underway
The name of this Custom Wooden Sloop (Katalinic 750) translates to “Little Sun” and her current owner says he fell in love with her before she was even built!
The original builder was Dado Katalinic, a design...

The tenth Fishguard Folk Festival is sadly over, but people are still smiling with happy memories of a gloriously sunny week-end, great music and old friendships rekindled.
Grateful thanks are due to Mike of Boatshed Wales for sponsoring ...

At BoatBid we have all kinds of used boats for sale in our auctions. We have used power boats and used sailing boats ranging from dainty little yachts to very stylish sports cruiser. Craft suitable to water ski behind and ones for yacht racing, w...