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This Birchwood 48 motor yacht is over a meter too high to navigate the Freycinet canals of France but was brought here from Scotland by her intrepid owner and used as a floating home.

I recently wrote about #BoatsThatTweet, but you will find that a lot of canal and narrowboaters who tweet, are also boats that blog. Many narrowboat blogs are cruising logs, and while some are a written diary, others are more focussed on keeping a...

At the recent European Boatshed.com Conference held in Excel, London the 2011 excellence awards for the group were announced. With over 50 offices all competing for awards the competition was intense and tension in the Conference room high as the ...

The following article is by our good friend and top boating lawyer, Hannah Cash. As well as being a leading authority on the legal aspects of buying a boat, Hannah has lived aboard Katherine of London (which we have for sale here) for a good few ...

David and Jane Ritchey have joined the Waterline Boats / Boatshed Seattle crew. While the front line contact (email addresses and phone) is David, he and Jane will be working together to list and sell boats.

In 2012, British Waterways’ canals and rivers in England and Wales will be transferred to the care of a new waterways charity, called the Canal & River Trust.

If you want to sell your boat and don’t have enough time or possibility to do that by yourself call us and let us to help you. We are members of Boatshed.com one of leading yacht brokerage group and we have largest registered customer base (450....

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

I have heard many figures quoted for the number of miles of navigable waterways in the UK: It is certainly several thousand. How do you find your way around such an extensive network?

Yes, I too was one of those people who asked, “What is the point of Twitter?” I had already wasted hours on Facebook keeping in touch with my friends’ status updates, and I didn’t need a whole other social world on line to mysteriously suc...

The Board of the BMF South West are pleased to announce that the Annual Conference and AGM will take place on the 10th February 2012 at the main campus of South Devon College, Paignton.

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Visit Waterline Boats / Boatshed Seattle at the Seattle Boat Show!
January 27 – February 5 2012

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At a time when some businesses are struggling, our biggest problem at Boatshed Grand Union is that we seem to be selling too many boats – we have several under offer at the moment and are ready to take on more boats for brokerage. To meet the de...

We have been twice to St Katherines Marina in January and its such a fantastic place to winter for cruisers.

We have great pleasure in presenting the Flying Fox 35 - a very unique yacht and a piece of yachting history. She was designed by the famous yacht designer Uffa Fox, from the Isle of Wight who is known as the 'father of planing sailboat hulls'. ...

From Monday 16th January to Friday 27th January 2012 the Shotley Marina Lock gates will be closed for their annual maintenance programme of servicing, cleaning and painting.

At the recent European Boatshed.com Conference held in Excel, London the excellence awards for the group were announced.

British Waterways are about to close the Tring Summit from Lock 39 Startops to 49 Northchurch. This area is not river fed and is suffering from the worst water shortage in many years.

On Valentine’s day last year my husband and I were in a pub talking about getting a bigger boat. I said that my perfect boat would be a 70 foot narrowboat, green, with side hatches and a ‘boatman’s cabin’. I’ve always fancied having the ...