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A few weeks ago the Boatshed team decided to pull into Fowey. We didn’t quite realise that it was also the Fowey Regatta, so this made things a little busier than normal. If you have never visited Fowey, I can strongly recommend it. It seems to ...

Island Harbour Marina is one of the Solent's best-kept secrets. Situated two miles south of Cowes on the River Medina. Its a peaceful marina with over 200 berths for annual moorings and visiting yachts and great facilities including...

Every year Boatshed exhibit at the Southampton International Boat Show and when I wander around I see so many things that I think would be useful to buy, however is it something I really need and will it just sit in the cupboard? Should I buy ano...

Island harbour Marina have 222 berths, the maximum draught we can take is 2.5 meters. maximum length 20 meters and maximum beam (due to the lock) is 7.5 meters. Lock keepers are always on hand to help you dock, and offer a friendly, person...

Island Harbour marina on the Isle of Wight is accessed through a lock. For a boat with a six foot draft access is from 3 hours either side of High water. Please do contact the Lock Control Tower when you are entering the Folly Reach just up river ...

My colleagues at Boatshed HQ (Click Here to checkout Boatshed.com – one of the largest international Yacht Brokerage groups in the world with 50+ branches worldwide) weren’t the least bit surprised when they saw the title of my latest...

This month we have been looking at ideas that surround review sites and generally getting reviews for our Boatshed businesses. If you consider the success of Trip Advisor for the hotel industry, why not extent this customer focussed review princi...

What ever your next dinghy is, its always a compromise, but getting the balance right for practicality, cost and usability is really important. We look at various types of used dinghies.

Is it just me or is everyone else starting to pack away their shorts and flip flops and slip into something a little warmer? The summer seems to have been and gone in a blur and now everyone is talking about autumn but it certainly didn’t seem ...

We love at Boatshed.com helping Owners sell their boats and matching potential buyers to boats that suit and match their dreams. One of our latest sales was this 2002 Grand Banks 52 Europa, Lying in Italy, which sold for full asking price.

October the first; official launch day of Boatshed SudMed and a dramatic start for Jill Roach. Beautiful blue skies, not too windy and several dozen stunning boats to view at the very 1st second hand multihull boat show taking place at Canet en Ro...

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.