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New website backs Government’s encouragement for living on boats
THE world’s number one online yacht brokerage system is about to launch a brand new website which could boost the government’s campaign to have more people living on the wa...

We have a wide choice of barges for sale in France and if you are serious about buying one you should be reading this.

How does the old song go? You say potato, I say tomato? A narrow boat was traditionally a cargo carrying boat found on the British inland waterways from the 18th century onwards. On the UK navigable waterways locks and bridge holes are a minimum o...

Here at Boatshed Lincolnshire we have noticed that the boat finder feature is a much underused service.

The Camano 31 Trawler (Trolls and Gnomes) are well-regarded boats for many reasons.

Most people who know me, know that I live on a narrowboat.
“Peggy lives on a barge,” they say, assuming that they are one and the same. I usually smile and nod. But a barge is “a long flat bottomed boat for carrying freight on canals, r...

At 0800 hrs last Monday Ian Dawes, Boatshed Port Solent business owner, reported to the classroom at Southsea Marina to start a week of bashing away at Chartwork, Meteorology, and Collision (avoidance thereof) Regulations. Yes you’ve guessed it;...

Dartmouth is very busy at the moment with two major projects underway on the river.

During the first day of the World Travel Market 2011 in London, statistics for the number of British visitors to Croatia this year were revealed – showing promising growth for the year.

Gwynedd Council has approved plans aimed at boosting the number of boat owners keeping their powerboats and sailing yachts in Pwllheli Marina, North Wales.

It hasn’t escaped anyone’s attention that we live in very different times and we are being bombarded with news from all directions on a crisis of some sort somewhere.

Imagine effortlessly absorbing the history of the canals by relaxing in a canal-side pub, listening to a couple of folk-singing boaters, complete with waistcoats and flat-caps. This is against a backdrop of projected historical photographs and you...

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Peter Delbridge and Ian Dawes, (Boatshed Hamble and Boatshed Port Solent) took part in the King and Queen Poker Rib Raid last Saturday in the sunny Solent, in aid of the Hamble River Lifeboat. The Boatshed Blokes borrowed their Avon Rib and 100 Ya...