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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...

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...

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.

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.