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Check out the bumper selection of boats in our next auction January 17-21 2014. If you are interested in any boats, you’ll have plenty of time to fit in a viewing before the auction starts on January 17th 2014.

There are various ways you can now search using different criteria.

This is an online auction website for second hand boats, working in partnership with Boatshed.com. All transactions are fully secure, transparent and work under standard British Marine Federation guidelines. Auctions run from a Friday to Tuesday e...

All is well on board Capibara but we are both very bored. We've been at sea now for 25 days but we still have over 800 miles to go. We finally have easterly winds but they are strong: 20-30 knots with squalls up to 40 knots.

Boatshed Dartmouth are delighted to offer for sale an ever popular Westerly Konsort. Westerly Konsorts are well regarded for being spacious and for easy handling with good performance under sail and power. This Konsort has been upgraded for Britta...

Boatshed Dartmouth are delighted to offer for sale a well maintained and equipped Channel Island 22. This example is fitted with the preferred twin Volvo diesels (recently serviced) offering excellent maneuverability and performance. Below...

Just over two weeks at sea and just about half way to Martinique.

Despite the delayed start, the Dubai Used Boatshow is now open and things are in full swing down at Dubai Creek. The pre-owned Boatshow designed to display Dubai's buoyant second-hand boat market has opened after being delayed by the weekend's ba...

Miraculously, we got the boat ready in time and at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning we left Marina Lanzarote with the other participants in the Atlantic Odyssey to get ready to cross the start line at 12 o'clock.

Storms in Dubai Delay Used Boatshow........
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Due to weather conditions, the dates of the Pre-Owned Boat Show have now changed as follows:

Herik & Signe have now left for their 3000 mile trip across the Atlantic to Martinique. With all the provisioning and lockers all put away and the boat a few inches down on her waterlines she heads out to sea.

82,000 boats needed by 2015!

There are only two days left now before we leave Arrecife to do our first Atlantic crossing, and we are not ready at all! When we were cruising around Gran Canary 10 days ago we agreed that besides the last provisioning, we were ready to go, but n...

Boatshed Suffolk run by business Owners Alan & Penny Nash are looking individuals or business looking to start or expand their own business for maximum returns.

With the new rules introduced in January 2012 it has made it much easier to travel with your UK dog abroad. We have two dogs, two Jack Russell crosses, both sisters Poppet and Gimble, now nearly 7 years old. They have done thousands of miles at se...

During November and early December the Canal and River Trust are auctioning off over 100 items of waterways memorabilia. Hidden away in their yards across the South East they’ve discovered various items which may be of interest to canal enthusia...

In Las Palmas we met a Danish cruiser, who lived on her boat in Las Palmas Marina. She had bought the boat in Spain six years earlier, had sailed it down to Las Palmas, and now the boat had never since been out of the marina.

Despite our good intentions of being real cruisers and quickly leave Las Palmas, we have now stayed in Las Palmas more than a week. The main reason is that Henrik found a guy to help him fix his water maker.

The Northwest Passage runs from a point North of Nuuq to a point similarly near Nome Alaska. We left London England on March 30, 2013.

You may remember a blog from just over a year ago about two special dogs that we have been sponsoring for some time from Dogs Trust (details of the previous blog can be found at the bottom of this page).