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After a rather boring Christmas Eve in Martinique, we decided to go to St. Lucia for the New Year’s, because a local girl from Martinique had told us that they threw better parties at the neighbour island.

Boatshed.com will be on Stand E163 for the next 9 days.

200ft TALL SHIP STAVROS S NIARCHOS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
IN ALBERT DOCK, LIVERPOOL THIS WEEKEND!

To arrive in Martinique has turned out to be a bit of an anti-climax for both of us, even though we barely talked about anything else during the crossing or before for that matter. Martinique hasn't live up to our expectations, which for my part h...

Join the 200ft Tall Ship Stavros S Niarchos for an exciting Open Weekend on Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 December.

Contrary to some schools of thought advertising your boat for sale during autumn and winter can reap reward.Owners who have decided to sell will be keen to achieve a sale and avoid having to pay the costs of another year of storage,Marina fees and...

Sunday the 17th of November we sailed from Lanzarote both of us full of excitement and optimism. I just couldn’t believe that we were about to cross the Atlantic!

Capibara, Allegro 30, left Lanzarote on Sunday 17th November and arrived in Martinique after 32 days at sea.

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...

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.

With the weather forecast placing a certain amount of doom and curbing our sailing over the next few days with Storm Force 10 to violent storm 11 expected on the south coast UK...

Looking for a plan of what to see at the PSP Southampton Boatshow ?We asked Boatshow "Veteran" Neil Chapman of Boatshed what he would do and see this year.......

PSP Southampton Boat Show...STAND DO63

One of the unusual features of this summer's ice situation is the movement of Beaufort Sea ice in a kind of clockwise gyre to clutter up the coast of Banks Island. On a bad day, it even extends across the mouth of Amundsen Gulf to Cape Bathurst an...

Great food comes from Argentina and this is one of their traditional dishes served up before the BBQ.
Sandra from Ruby's Rascal whose native country is Argentina shared this recipe with me, found this cheese in a specialist Italian Deli near C...

This recipe was created with cruising friends "Ruby's rascal" Sandra, Jessie & Curt whilst anchored off the castle ruins on Sherkin Island near Baltimore, West Ireland.

When it comes to the summer months and school holidays, we like to go off cruising for several weeks/months at a time and go where the wind takes us. We pack our bags and move all the troops on-board and start our adventures.

Boatshed goes Responsive!
Today, nearly 30% of Boatshed's traffic is mobile. By the end of next year, this may exceed 50% Tablet sales are expected to exceed 100 million this year. Smartphones, of course, are also a hot commodity, with the ...