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After a busy week of browsing boats for sale, narrowboats for sale and barges for sale, (when everyone thought you were hard at work in your office) the weekend is the time to relax… and look at more boats!

As we started this week with severe weather warnings for rain, winds and floods I noticed two news stories in the media, highlighting canal safety. The Star reported that in south Yorkshire a man drowned after walking his dogs by a canal. It is b...

I was impressed when Tom and Dale rowed from Birmingham to London last month, but now a student has done the same journey in a bathtub, raising over £1000 for the British Red Cross.

A new charity has been set up in the Shadow of the Olympic Stadium. E20 Eastenders Fishing Club , which intends to help disabled ex-servicemen and children as well as bring back fishing to the canal in East London.

My eldest daughter, born on a boat nearly five years ago, has just started school. So with that theme in my mind I thought I’d grab my satchel and an apple for teacher and seek out ways to get an education on the English canals and rivers.

We need boat experts !

This week as a Leicestershire couple celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary with a canal boat trip along the Grand Union Canal I thought I would celebrate the Grand Union itself. (The happy husband at 83 is the same age as the canal.) We hav...

A wonderful place to keep your boat on the River Thames is the Harleyford Estate where they offer many different mooring options. The surroundings are beautiful, peaceful and extremely well kept. They also have excellent facilities and even a floa...

It’s now a year since I began working for Boatshed Grand Union! We have lots to celebrate and it’s been an interesting year.

Tony Blews's UK Waterways Ranking Site is a great way to discover popular waterways websites, and as a blogger I particularly enjoy checking out the blog rankings and wandering about discovering new boating blogs.

If you’re looking for an affordable way to become a boat owner then have you considered a project boat? We have project boats for sale to suit all budgets, and you don’t need to be an expert to take one on.

Last Saturday 4th August two determined men arrived at Brentford, after rowing there… from Birmingham.

The trading boats have now gathered at Mile End on the Regent’s Canal in London creating a most unusual market. Strangely reminiscent of Neil Gaiman’s floating market, (featured in the 1996 urban fantasy TV series Neverwhere,) it is a vibrant ...

British Waterways Marinas Ltd, one of the largest marina operators in the country, has appointed Boatshed.com as its sole provider of brokerage at its marinas in the South and West.

Could this be the first sunny canal festival of the year? This Saturday is the 10th Linslade Canal Festival, a free community event promoting rural arts and crafts, conservation, canal life and the heritage of the town's green spaces. It is orga...

Over the years that Boatshed Grand Union has been selling boats on the inland waterways, several questions have recurred time and time again.

The river Loire longest river in France and known as the Royal highway was once a main artery for transporting goods and people in central France. Always a difficult river with many shallows and shifting channels it gave rise to a series of very...

Phil and Boatshed Grand Union are long-time supporters of the National Community Boats Association which promotes community boating for young people and all kinds of disadvantaged groups. Phil is an ex-chairman of our local community boat, Dicks F...

59ft Pat Buckle Narrowboat Dibitu is going home. After more than ten years exploring the waterways of France NB Dibitu has been sold by Boatshed Bourgogne and is returning to the UK. Excited new owners Steph. & Morris Abbott eagerly awaited ...

4th July in the year 2000 was Independence Day – for me. As a young twenty something I became a proud home owner for the very first time, and that home was a 45 foot red narrowboat called Emily Rose. I knew very little about boats but I’d met ...