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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.

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...

This year we’ve really got into blogging and have welcomed friends, boaters and brokers from all over the world to write articles on the Boatshed blog. It’s made interesting and varied reading; there should be something that appeals to everyon...

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.

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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.

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All is well on board Capibara but we are both very bored. We've been at sea now for 25 days but we still have over 800 miles to go. We finally have easterly winds but they are strong: 20-30 knots with squalls up to 40 knots.

Boatshed Dartmouth are delighted to offer for sale an ever popular Westerly Konsort. Westerly Konsorts are well regarded for being spacious and for easy handling with good performance under sail and power. This Konsort has been upgraded for Britta...

Boatshed Dartmouth are delighted to offer for sale a well maintained and equipped Channel Island 22. This example is fitted with the preferred twin Volvo diesels (recently serviced) offering excellent maneuverability and performance. Below...

Just over two weeks at sea and just about half way to Martinique.

Despite the delayed start, the Dubai Used Boatshow is now open and things are in full swing down at Dubai Creek. The pre-owned Boatshow designed to display Dubai's buoyant second-hand boat market has opened after being delayed by the weekend's ba...

Miraculously, we got the boat ready in time and at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning we left Marina Lanzarote with the other participants in the Atlantic Odyssey to get ready to cross the start line at 12 o'clock.

Storms in Dubai Delay Used Boatshow........
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Due to weather conditions, the dates of the Pre-Owned Boat Show have now changed as follows:

Herik & Signe have now left for their 3000 mile trip across the Atlantic to Martinique. With all the provisioning and lockers all put away and the boat a few inches down on her waterlines she heads out to sea.

82,000 boats needed by 2015!

There are only two days left now before we leave Arrecife to do our first Atlantic crossing, and we are not ready at all! When we were cruising around Gran Canary 10 days ago we agreed that besides the last provisioning, we were ready to go, but n...