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Navigating the waters of boat valuation can seem daunting, whether you're contemplating a sale, dealing with an inheritance, or involved in legal and financial assessments. Boatshed, with its extensive experience cataloguing over 35,000 boats and ...

It's time to celebrate! Boatshed is a quarter-century old. Back in 1999, we were just a tiny office in Wales, fuelled by caffeine and a love for the ocean. Our website looked like it was built by a particularly artistic hamster on a sugar rush...

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At Boatshed we pride ourselves in going the extra mile to ensure the process of buying and selling a boat is as easy as possible for our customers. We love to work with marine businesses locally, nationally and globally.

At Boatshed we have a proven and structured process for selling your boat. Here we will take you through each step so you know exactly what will happen throughout the sales process.

Imagine you could do a favour for a friend or someone you know by helping them to sell their boat.

Our BoatBid online boat auction site provides the perfect platform for specialist boat auctions for a versatile range of boats from Cruising boats to Commercial, classic wooden boats to luxury motor yachts, houseboats, inland waterways, contact us...

Getting regular updates from your yacht broker about sales activity on your boat is vital. As well as regular broker contact Boatshed offer all boat owners a secure area where they can obtain live information on the activity, viewings and sales da...

An important part of what we do at Boatshed is help our owners’ boats stand out from the crowd and attract serious interest in a busy, often crowded marketplace. The strength of our website and IT platform, and the attention and importance our b...

I was just browsing our old blog posts and was amazed to discover that I’ve worked for Boatshed for nearly five years now! I stumbled across the very first article I wrote: New Administrator For Boatshed Grand Union in which I described myself i...

If you want to quickly become the local expert on all things boat and canal related then look no further than this blog. Become a regular reader and friends will soon ask your advice on topics as diverse as engine maintenance, the coolest canal fe...

Do you have a fascination with boats and canals? Are you wondering whether to buy your first boat?

Today, Boatshed has over 600,000 registered customers looking for boats and our website attracts over 260,000 unique visitors each month. We sell more than 1,000 boats each year and have more than 50 branches worldwide. Based upon independent indu...

When life hands you lemons you’re supposed to make lemonade right? Divorce, separation, ill health, or some other unexpected change of circumstances may force you to sell your boat. I lived aboard for thirteen years and wrote a blog called The R...

Boatshed Grand Union won the Best Blogger 2015 award at the Boatshed.com International Conference on Monday: That kinda makes me an international award winning blogger! So, here are five of the best blog articles from 2015 to show you the variety ...

Did you know that Boatshed Grand Union is part of an international boat brokerage group? The Boatshed group now has 668,056 registered customers. There are over 50 Boatshed branches worldwide with 260,000 unique website visitors per month. Boatshe...

The most commonly asked question to those who live aboard a canal boat is, “Is it cold in winter?”

Gone are the days of needing to be on dry land to use the phone or the internet; though if you’re using a mobile phone, you might find that reception is rubbish inside the floating steel box that is a narrowboat -they make an excellent Farad...

We talk a lot about boat interiors, after all, space is a premium, and there are some brilliant designs and wonderful innovations on your average narrowboat, that make the most of every nook and cranny; but what about the outside?

Boatshed is a yacht brokerage that was originally set up in1999, by Neil and Mandy Chapman and has now grown into one of the largest international yacht brokerages in the world, specialising in buying and selling second-hand sail and motor boa...