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So you crossed the Atlantic nearly 18 months ago and soon the tax vultures will start circling for their pound of your hard earned flesh. The time is fast approaching when you will have to pay VAT and if in Spain, Matriculation Tax. 

During the Industrial Revolution as the Irish navigators or “navvies” continued to build the waterways network, steerers were needed for the boats and lock keepers were required for a variety of maintenance tasks.

Looking for a live-aboard in London? Check out this super-duper 20m Dutch Barge with a superb West London mooring.

Why not take a canal boat down the Thames and get a fantastic view of the New Year’s Eve fireworks on the London Eye? Sadly, bravely cruising into the night without a place to moor is not as safe as it sounds. Moorings are usually passenger pier...

Now the yachties amongst us might be used to mud berths and water dissapearing down the beach and rolling back again with predictable if somewhat inconvenient regularity but we canal boaters find this kind of behaviour rather unusual and low tides...

Les marins parmi nous sont peu-être bien habitués aux caprices de l’eau qui s’en va de temps en temps pour y revenir quelques heures plus tard mais ici en fluvial un tel comportement est plutôt inhabituel et la marré basse peut durer plusi...

Southsea Marina to see the arrival of a new pump out and waste disposal facility

Check out these quality boats in the next BoatBid.com boat auction.
The Auction ends in less than 22 days from today.

About once a month I take our boat to a marina to top up on diesel and empty the toilet. For her own safety my toddler daughter is sat on the hatch cover and secured to the roof with a safety harness while we cruise.
As we pass under a bridge...

NAT WEST COMMUNITY FORCE
Everybody involved with the East Anglian Sailing Trust and the team at Boatshed Suffolk would like to thank all the people who helped by voting for this very good cause.

HO! HO! HO! Santa’s elves thought of everything on this 2000 Rinker 340 fiesta vee!

- stern thruster
- generator
- inverter Chartplotter/Fishfinder
- 32’ Flatscreen TV
- cockpit refrigerator
- elec...

Ah Christmas time. Time to winterise your canal boat and lock yourself safely into a warm house. Or is it? There are lots of festive events planned on the waterways this December.

Courage

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.

Nous avons plusieurs péniches à vendre en France actuellement et si vous voulez faire une affaire et concrétiser vos projets prochainement je vous invite à lire la suite…….

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.

We have just four events this month as we know you are all busy getting ready for the holidays. However, do try to take time out to come and enjoy the peace and tranquillity of Chichester Harbour.

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