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Many people who buy narrowboats have their first experience of boating in Hire Boats. These are available in many shapes and sizes, all around the canal system.

I have always been a great lover of maps. I like to know where I am - and where everything else is. A great site for planning your route, and seeing it on Google maps as well as getting a printable itinerary is . You can even get a virtual cruise,...

CRICK MARINA has hosted the highly successful Crick Boat Show annually since 2000 and again this year Boatshed were on stand to support this wonderful inland waterways show.

A hot sunny afternoon in Little Venice, London, turns out to be an ideal cure for "post royal wedding stress disorder". This quiet corner of London sees the start of thr inland waterways show calendar.

This week sees Boatshed.com pass the 400,000 registered customer mark.

Sell Your Boat Now

Which Type is for You

This is the first blog in the series we introduced last week, designed to answer many of the stock question about the process of buying, then looking after a boat.

Over the two years that Boatshed Grand Union has been selling boats on the Inland Waterways, several questions have recurred time and time again.

Sometimes, I come to the conclusion you just get too many emails. Anyhow, whilst poring through Friday’s delivery of the odd two or three hundred emails in my inbox, I noticed one titled Rib Raid; nothing to do with technical redundancy on serv...

UK is one of the new countries to introduce a professional boat sales qualification which has been championed by the Boat Retailers and Brokers Association (BRBA) and the Association of Brokers and Yacht Agents (ABYA) to promote a proper code of ...

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When I was about 7 years old my parents built narrowboats and my job was to break up the concrete and re arrange in the narrowboats bilge for ballast. I remember working in any temperature and used to love getting as much concrete to fit in the ga...

I was a little jealous last weekend when some of my Yottie Boatshed colleagues took place in the annual race around the Isle of Wight (along with a notorious character from BP). Now I am doing it myself, on a slightly larger boat than any of them....

Well, the season of Inland Waterways festivals is off to a cracking start. So far Boatshed Grand Union has attended three this year with great results.

Once again Boatshed Grand Union is going to be in the thick of things at
Cavalcade (Little Venice 1st -3rd May). We will have our stand on the South
Tow Path with all our boats for sale on display. We will also have one
wonderful wide ...

It was a great honour for me that Boatshed Grand Union was recognised for the best marketing in the the group at the Boatshed European Conference in Portugal recently. Great for me, but what does it mean for the customer.

Boatshed Yacht Brokers are a social bunch so they seize upon any opportunity to get together. The Boatshed European annual Conference for 2010 was held over looking sailing boats and motor boats in Albufeira Marina at the offices of Boatshed Algar...

We love hearing your feedback from our customers and many of you requested extra detailed photos to be included in our photo template. Great news we have just completed work too our website so that you can now view an extra 15 NEW photos to view f...

Firstly Congratulations to Ian Welsh and his team of Boatshed Poole for winning the 2010 Boatshed.com "Broker of the year award"